VP hopeful Palin attended 5 colleges in 6 years

AP ^ | 9/4/08 | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended five colleges in six years before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987. Federal privacy laws prohibit the schools from disclosing her grades, and none of the schools contacted by The Associated Press could say why she transferred. There was no indication any of them were contacted as part of the background investigation of Palin by presidential candidate John McCain's campaign. "Our office was not contacted by anyone," said Tania Thompson, spokeswoman for the University of Idaho in Moscow. Palin, the governor of Alaska, was born in Idaho. Her family moved when she was only a few months old to Alaska, where she was raised. She began college at Hawaii Pacific University, a private, nonsectarian school in Honolulu. She attended only as a freshman during the fall of 1982, school spokeswoman Crystale Lopez said. Then known as Sarah Louise Heath, she was in the business administration program as a full-time student, Lopez said.

[VRWCer]

So did I. Immaculata College, Stony Brook, Purchase, Ramapo University, Fairleigh Dickinson. Graduated Magna Cum Laude with a double major and finished 2/3 MBA (then quit to be a full time mommy, homeschooling). I think I turned out ok.

[JLS]

That is a good way to list her career too. I guess Hawaii-Hilo was editted out of the story???

You tell the story quite well too. She went to a or two warm weather school, which is pretty natural for some Alaska kids, did not like it and transfered to Idaho which was more like home. As you say she goes to a resort area JUCO maybe because she spent a bunch of her scholarship money in Hawaii or to get her academic house in order or because she liked the area, it does not matter. Then she transfer to Idaho where she graduates with one term as a transient student at a local JUCO.

So she did not “transfer” but twice. She was a transient student one term. And the 10 semesters from your method of showing her path to graduation equals the five years I found.

[Sloth]

Good gravy, these people are obsessed. What next, she had a lot of overdue library books when she was fourteen?

[Dr. Sivana]

Where did Ronald Reagan graduate from college?

President Reagan was the proud graudte of Eureka College. He also stated that at times he thinks he had his best job there . . . dishwasher in the girls' dorm.

[Dr. Sivana]

grudte = graduate
(I hate modern mushy keyboards)

[newheart]

When the University of Idaho adopted this as a nickname, the word vandal didn't have the meaning that it has now.

Thank God the mascot isn't the Goths. They'd fake pictures of her dressed in black with pink hair and a nose ring. ;-)

[DemonDeac]

So what?

[midway]

And critics say she hasn’t traveled enough

[Huck]

In 1983, while playing Galaga at the local arcade, she noticed an extra token in the coin return slot... But, guess what?

Yer bringin' back memories.