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bobby78751
HOLY CRAP! eek!
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Kerry had a cumulative average of 76 and got four Ds his freshman year -- in geology, two history courses and political science, The Boston Globe reported Tuesday.

His grades improved with time, and he averaged an 81 his senior year and earned an 89 -- his highest grade -- in political science as a senior.

In 1999, The New Yorker magazine published a transcript showing Bush had a cumulative grade average of 77 his first three years at Yale, and a similar average under a non-numerical rating system his senior year.

Bush's highest grade at Yale was an 88 in anthropology, history and philosophy. He received one D in his four years, a 69 in astronomy, and improved his grades after his freshman year, the transcript showed.
CNN Story

[ June 07, 2005, 08:12 AM: Message edited by: bobby78751 ]
HotlantaTarheel
I assure you that GPA and intelligence are two different things.
copman
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HotlantaTarheel:
I assure you that GPA and intelligence are two different things.
Oh yeah - and if Kerry had been as smart as he was claimed to be all the liberals would be crowing " I told ya." Now lets compare Hillary & Bill's intelligence - SHE is the smart one!
CPT_Doom
How could either of them have done that badly? I mean, we know Bush was a drunk, but what was Kerry's deal? I can hardly believe that the Yale country club of the 60s was tougher academically than the Yale of the 80s that my friends went to, and I don't know any of them who did that lousy.
msully
Pre grade inflation, SOMEONE had to be below average. Apparently that demographic then entered politics smile.gif
DallasUNC
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CPT_Doom:
How could either of them have done that badly? I mean, we know Bush was a drunk, but what was Kerry's deal? I can hardly believe that the Yale country club of the 60s was tougher academically than the Yale of the 80s that my friends went to, and I don't know any of them who did that lousy.
It means he really didnt give a shit and probably didnt go to class like most college folks that have grades like that. Thats what happened in my soph and junior years.
twin58
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HotlantaTarheel
I assure you that GPA and intelligence are two different things.
I hope so.

I fished an issue of the Yale Alumni News from a dumpster a few years back. There was an article in about admissions to Yale in the fifties. Yale had quotas. It would accept only so many Jews, so many men from west of the Alleghenies, so many students from public schools, etc. The rest of the spaces in the incoming class were reserved for nice people - prep school students, from families with money.

My brother has that issue now, but it is about seven or eight years old.
sportinlife
Maybe the GPA we should be most concerned about is that of Osama bin Laden. The guy's a Civil Engineer who apparently actually did something in the running of his family's construction company, and had perhaps the most intensive and expensive training in combat that the military world can offer - from the USA. And has used it effectively against the most powerful military on the planet - the USA. And so far has manged to avoid capture by his teachers.

His claim to have planned the hits on the WTC seem pretty realistic.

Would George W. Bush or John Kerry have been able to do that from some cave in Afghanistan?

Little wonder so many young muslim arabs around the world look up to him.

Maybe we could elect another Jimmy Carter to catch Osama. I don't see one on the horizon currently, but I'm sure there is one.
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