How Did Obama Get into College?

[ClydeR]

"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible," Trump told the AP. "How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."

Mr. Obama received an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1983. (He transferred from Occidental College in 1981.) He then got his Juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1991.

Trump provided no evidence of Mr. Obama's "terrible" marks, but did offer the fact that "I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard."

More... (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20057214-503544.html)

Magna cum laude? That's not even the good one. Smart people are summa cum laude. Magna cum laude is something nice you say when you can't think of anything else.

I hope Trump is able to get to the bottom of this.

[Axhinde]

If Trump was so serious about candidacy, why isn't he trumpeting his political beliefs and policies? Seems he only wishes to run a smear campaign. Granted, i don't pay attention to politics much, but I do know Trump bankrupted a casino...where the house always wins. Between that and his styrofoam hair, meh.

[Back]

Magna cum laude? That's not even the good one. Smart people are summa cum laude. Magna cum laude is something nice you say when you can't think of anything else.

I hope Trump is able to get to the bottom of this.

I am guessing you’ll also buy a bridge to the moon. Especially if Trump is selling it. Caveat emptor.

[AnticorRifling]

I also hope to cum laude.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

How did Obama get into college? I'm betting he applied.

[Kid Danger]

I hope Trump is able to get to the bottom of this.

Yeah, I feel better knowing Richie Rich Medusa Hair is on the case.

[Back]

How did Obama get into college? I'm betting he applied.

The ClydeR parody is real satire. Who ever is behind it is doing a great job. A really great job of making the divide a great comedy. Sure, ClydeR burns a magnifying glass on the so-called “right” like a kid with an ant hill. But ClydeR also brings out the “left” nuttiness. Like a Butterfinger.

[AnticorRifling]

How did Obama get into college? I'm betting he applied.

I blame diversity.

[Tgo01]

Through the doors!

[AnticorRifling]

Through the doors!

You don't really appreciate The Doors until you're IN college.

[Cephalopod]

Back's current avatar makes me think of Archer.

GRILL ME A CHEESE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODYfkPxdy8c).

[Latrinsorm]

I blame diversity.Hey hey, just because he said "I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard." doesn't mean he's going after affirmative action.

[EasternBrand]

In order to graduate with Latin honors at Harvard Law, it used to be the case that you needed to graduate with a certain GPA based on some bizarre scale where an A+ counted as 8 points, an A as 7, and so on. Summa required a cumulative GPA of over 7.0, and consequently was given out extremely rarely, and some years not at all. Now the top 1% of the graduating class automatically gets it. Fucking lowered standards.

[Deathravin]

Looks Like Trump's Right: How the Hell Did This President Get Into Those Ivy League Schools?


- "The dean looked over Barack's transcript and college boards and then suggested in a kindly way that he apply to some less competitive colleges in addition to Columbia."
- "There were no class rankings at his high school, but Barack never made honor roll even one term, unlike 110 boys in his class."
- "His SAT scores were 566 for the verbal part and 640 for math. Those were far below the median scores for students admitted to his class at Columbia: 668 verbal and 718 math."
- "At Columbia, Barack Obama distinguished himself primarily as a hard partier, and he managed to be detained by police twice during his university years: once for stealing a Christmas wreath as a fraternity prank and once for trying to tear down the goalposts during a football game at Princeton."
- "Obama's transcript at Columbia shows that he was a solid C student. Although a history major, he sampled widely in the social sciences and did poorly in political science and economics while achieving some of his best grades (the equivalent of a B+) in philosophy and anthropology. The transcript indicates that in Obama's freshman year, the only year for which rankings were available, he was in the twenty-first percentile of his class—meaning that four-fifths of the students were above him. Yet at the same time that he was earning Cs at Columbia, Obama displayed a formidable intelligence in another way. At his induction into the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity, he and others were asked to name all fifty-four pledges in the room. Most were were able to name only five or six. When it was Obama's turn, he named every single one. Later he rose to become president of DKE, and he was also tapped into Skull and Bones, an elite secret society to which his father had also belonged."
And then he somehow got into Harvard for graduate school.
Oh, wait.
My bad.
I made a mistake.
Please replace the reference to "high school" with "Andover."
Please replace "Columbia" with "Yale."
Please replace "Barack Obama" with "George W. Bush."
Thanks.


http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Kennedy-Bush/George-W-Bush-Andover-and-yale.html

[Tgo01]

It's 2011 and Bush bashing still isn't boring for some people yet huh?

[LMingrone]

It never gets old. Try living around here, where there's stupid signs on I95 saying "OMG BUSH ONCE WENT TO SCHOOL HERE.", and having to deal with hipster yalies.

[ClydeR]

http://www.presidentprofiles.com/Kennedy-Bush/George-W-Bush-Andover-and-yale.html

Bush never released his transcripts. Those were leaked by Certain People. It's interesting that elitist educators have managed to keep Obama's academic record secret but somehow allowed Bush's to be leaked.

Obama was a skinny unathletic kid who was always reading books. That's exactly the type of person who would not have fared well in an academic environment where social interaction was a necessary part of survival. His academic record is bound to be terrible. If Republican candidates keep pushing and pushing this issue until Obama is finally forced to release his transcripts, then Republicans will look mighty good on that triumphant day.

[Ardwen]

Clearly Clyde has never been to any Ivy League campus or Stanford or MIT where all you see is skinny unathletic people thriving at classes so complex as to make Clyde look like an amoeba