Posted on 06/07/2005 12:34:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
well I imagine getting an A at Ivy League school isn't easy, it shouldn't be, after all you have the creme de la creme of the United States, supposedly going to those schools...
I had the same shock in Law School, I got an A average in undergraduate but getting A's in Law School was real tough the professors were stingy, some didn't give out any A's but you are in a class of 150 people who are at least as smart as you and many were much more, it's a blow to the ego but I managed to finish in the top third of the class...I still hate the guy that never cracked upon a text book or so he claims, I wonder, he not only had an A average but he was in the combined Law MBA program, there were 4 guys in the program when I went to school, for the real ambitious types, aiming real high......
I still remember our final exam in third year, it was the dreaded income tax exam - we were all sitting at a favourite off campus hangout, on the outdoor patio, on a beautiful day in early May, silently stunned, gazing at our beer, because none of us had finished the exam, it was a required course, what happens if we fail, we all had our articling jobs lined up etc......the good news is they bell curved it and most of us passed...some professors are just sadist, man.........
but I digress, yeah D is for distinction, you have distinquished yourself from the rest of the class, Jean Francois, he should have gone to the Sorbonne and taking crepe making.......
Sounds like my 17 year old nephew. Brilliant, but makes D's because he's bored.
no no no billy bearsy
you missed the point, honey bear, Bush has never held himself out to be an intellectual genius oh but John Kerry has along with all his syncophants in the DNC and the Left, going on and on about how bright he is and how stupid W is,
honestly though one could argue even college averages at that level aren't indicative of a lot, some of the best lawyers I went to school with aren't the people who were top of the class, the top of the class went and got their Masters and many became professors or clerked for judges...
being able to memorize case law and being a brilliant trial lawyer or brilliant solicitor or brilliant negotiator are not necessarily mutually inclusive....
Actually neither. The difference is, one of them didn't pretend to be a brilliant scholar and belittle the academic accomplishments of the other.
c'est parfait, Rexy!
Pray for W and Our Troops
I have no idea whether you are trying to be cute or not but my point is just as the difference between Bush and Kerry was not that much in college, their politics aren't much different either. Republicans and Democrats no longer hold opposing positions as much as they hold varying levels on the same side of the issue
I could care less what they did in college and care even less what they do while in that cesspool called the nation's capitol. They're both political hacks that pander to the general public for votes and nothing else.
Has anyone dipped into the DU cesspool to see what they think of thier hero's grades?
I never go there.
Hell, I remember when posting crap from there was a sure way to get something deleted.
>I never go there.
Me either. But I was curious, hence the request to the masochists among us.
What brand of "Rice Rocket" is that?
Honda Holdwing, I believe.
These morons never learn that as leaders, people will do what they do. My wife teaches math in HS. She has two weeks left in the year - 8 days with kids.
Who wants to lay a wager that within that period, some kid is going to lay this very line on her before school is out.
"Hey Mrs. RinaseaofDs, D stands for Distinction."
This is from the same tradition that brought us "Oral sex isn't sex."
Grade inflation at the Ivy League schools is well-known.
"Student's grades at Harvard University have soared in the last 10 years. According to a report issued Tuesday by the dean of undergraduate education, nearly half of the grades issued last year were A's or A-minuses. In 1985, just a third of the grades were A or A-minus. Linda Wertheimer talks with Susan Pedersen, Dean of Undergraduate Education and a Professor of History at Harvard University, about grade inflation."
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