Legacy admissions, how do you THINK someone as dumb as Trump even got INTO a university?

[Eliot Rosewater]

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/18/viral-nyt-op-ed-author-rich-parents-cheat-to-get-kids-into-college.html



Many articles on how, including those on how rich kids can cheat and it is widely known rich kids use tutors and when they can they use substitutes to do not only their work but the tests, as well.

Real simple, both W and Trump are too dumb to have graduated in any sense of success from any accredited university. Period.

There are many more, of course, these are just the high profile cheaters we know about for obvious reasons.

The problem other than the obvious perpetuation of undeserved wealth and power, is idiots like them get to stand up in front of large crowds and receive thunderous applause as great minds and leaders.

Great cheaters, more like it.

So sick of this shit I could spit.

[Orsino]

1. I suppose he might have had something on the ball mentally way back then.

Seems likely that he had to do a little work, but it seems certain that someone else could have been paid to do much of it.

He certainly seems to have escaped his education unscathed.

[nocalflea]

2. And privelege knows no idealogical boundaries.

"At the end of his second semester in May 1951, Kennedy was anxious about maintaining his eligibility for athletics for the next year,[and he had a classmate take his place at a Spanish language examination.The ruse was immediately discovered and both students were expelled for cheating."

"Kennedy re-entered Harvard in the summer of 1953."


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy


One man grew and learned from his mistakes, the other has been cheating his entire life.

[cyclonefence]

3. He may have paid someone to take his SATs

and his high school was a private military school, so $ from Dad might have helped with his GPA.

[Cicada]

4. Yale's predictive model predicted W would have grades above 65, passing, so he was admitted

When he was admitted Yale graded on a 0 to 100 scale, with 65 passing. A legacy, or a desirable hockey player, or Donald Schollander in his class, by far the best damned swimmer on planet earth, would be admitted if they were projected to have a gpa above 65.

So he wasn't a moron, he was certainly in the top 10% of high school seniors, probably better than that because unlike stupid Harvard, Yale did not have easy classes.

And W achieved pretty much what was predicted, near the bottom but passing.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. He got into Wharton because of his older brother, Fred Jr. (Freddy)

Another biographer, Gwenda Blair, wrote in 2001 that Trump was admitted to Wharton on a special favor from a “friendly” admissions officer. The officer had known Trump’s older brother, Freddy.

http://www.thedp.com/article/2015/08/donald-trump-wharton-classmates

Trump would have graduated (maybe) from Fordham but for the help of Freddy.
http://www.fordhamobserver.com/inside-trumps-days-at-fordham/