[Verginius Rufus]

Bush's transcript mysteriously appeared in a hit piece in The New Yorker, a magazine long hostile to Republicans, in late 1999 (when it was known he was running for President). My guess is that someone at Yale leaked it to them. His grades were a mix of C's and B's--earned before the era of grade inflation. He was heavily involved in extra-curricular activities so probably could have made A's in some courses if he had spent more time studying.

Kerry's grades were about the same as Bush's (he's older so wasn't in the same class year at Yale) but the media never used that against Kerry.

Gore, at Harvard, had some A's as I recall, but also had some D's...overall record not much different from Bush's.

None of them were upwardly-mobile first-generation college students from middle-class or poor families...so their attitude towards grades may have reflected their social background.

[kabar]

Gore’s grades were about a C minus. He was a poor student. Bush had better grades than Kerry and Gore.