[x]

Or he did just well enough to pass and -- with enough playing up to teachers and the advantages given to minority students -- to get a transfer.

Without a lot of cockiness and BS'ing and affirmative action, he might not have made it through, but with enough, it's just possible that he did.

It would be nice if everybody we didn't like came undone and had to cheat to get through school, but it doesn't always happen like that (unless you want to call affirmative action itself cheating).

[RedMonqey]

Or he did just well enough to pass and -- with enough playing up to teachers and the advantages given to minority students -- to get a transfer.

Agreed.

We know he isn't above "composite..ing" the facts to his advantage and like Bill Clinton, can charm the birds out of the trees.

And I can see a young "Barry" playing the "Pity card" to a few young, naive teachers with "white guilt complex" to bump up a few points for a better grade and excuse a missed test because of "unexplained absences."

Nope, not hard to do at all.