"Must of had some awesome SAT scores. WTF?"
more likely he's doing the "football player" curriculum, ie---being provided with the answers to tests in advance, and given good grades even if he fails to memorize the right answer.
Of course, you have to realize that the average grade and Harvard now is very close to straight A's. They give out no C's and very few B's. Recently, there was a bit of a problem because the president of Harvard complained about the weakness of the grading system. The problem has been solved however (the president, Summers, has put in his resignation, effective for a few months from now. The actual incident that caused him to be removed (straw that broke the camel's back) was that he said the reason there are so few women achieving in science might be genetic.)
Brief correction. he did not say Genetic. He said there may be a real difference in performance between sexes.
The first is difficult to prove. The second is handily proven. In other words - no one as far as I know can demonstrate a genetic link, whereas the greater number of high performing (and also low performing) males is quite well documented.
re grades - I recently thumbed through the "Business Week Guide to US Colleges" - one of the criteria used was graduation % - Harvard was like 98%. One would think a more aggressive college actually weeding out the lower performers - (see Cornell Engineering School, for instance) would be considered a "better school" - but again - the strange judgement of people who make these ratings is evident.
Everyone has known for some time that the hardest thing about Harvard was getting in. After the Larry Summers thing, I would have to adjust that to "... getting in and not throwing up due to stench of PC lunacy."