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Originally Posted by Lockjaw
Actually it's much worse. You have people as thick as a brick getting into high level schools based on their family name alone. These same people likely have had every resource available to them and didn't take advantage of it because they knew they had their way paved for them since before they were born.
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I know this veers us perilously close to Tilted Politics (which I stay out of even when it's
not election season), but I'm not sure you can
have this conversation on October 10, 2004 without bringing up the single most priveleged silver-spooner in the country.
<ul><li>George W. Bush ented Yale in 1964 with a combined SAT of 1206, 200 points below the score of the average Yale freshman in 1970.
<li>He graduated Yale with a 2.35 GPA
<li>After being rejected from University of Texas Law School in 1970, he was accepted at Harvard Business School in 1973. 1973 admission statistics are unavailable, but today's incoming Havard student's GPA averages 3.5, and no students were accepted with lower than a 2.6.
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(My source for this is <a href="http://monkeydyne.com/bushresume/resume.html">here</a>. Interesting reading to say the least--please, if you're one of those Undecided Voters, go read that.)
In school as in so many other things, who your family is and what your connections are is at least as important as your record and what you've demonstrated yourself capable of.