[MSF BU]

So if he were white would he have been accepted? Even with lackluster grades at Columbia? Did he graduate with honors from Occidental?

[muawiyah]

Yes, he would have been accepted, and as it turned out, he was accepted although I think it was a tad more like what they really do ~ he was recruited. Somebody at Columbia put his name in the till to see if any money could come out, and granny made sure they got aholt of his genealogy!

I was recruited when I made a perfect LSAT score AND I'm one of those legacies ~ lots of Harvard grads in the line all the way back ~ many of the same folks as Obama.

I didn't go there. BTW, I was recruited by Columbia even earlier coming out of highschool. We couldn't come to terms on how much they'd "contribute".