Being a photostatic copy machine is, unfortunately, all that is required from most Ivy League covens.
Depends on the class. At law school generally the people with the best grades are the ones who are both smart and hard working. Smart students who work reasonably hard also tend to do well. Reasonably intelligent students who work very hard can do well, but they don't always. And less intelligent students almost never do well, no matter how hard they work.
My FRiend, you are going to have to excuse both my cynicism and laughter at that statement.
Where are the Obama Columbia University classmates? Where is the doctor that attended his birth in Hawaii?
No, there are more holes in this man's life than in a truck load of Swiss cheese, and resorting to "Surely someone would have noticed" does not apply in his case.