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Title: McCain/Palin vs. Obama/Biden - how they compare academically
Source: Various
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Published: Aug 31, 2008
Author: Various
Post Date: 2008-08-31 00:08:49 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Comments: 109

Palin
- Bachelors of Arts in Sports Journalism from Idaho.

McCain
- Bachelors from Naval Academy rank 5th from the bottom of his class of 800.

Biden
- BA University of Delaware in both History and Political Science.
- Juris Doctor (JD) from Syracuse University College of Law.

Obama
- BA in International Relations form Columbia University.
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in 1991. (That’s top of his class at arguably the best school in the country/world.) While at Harvard he was also president of the Harvard Law Review.

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#4. To: a vast rightwing conspirator (#0) (Edited)

Harvard was already going downhill in the 1950s.

These days, grade inflation there makes State Universities look tame in comparison.

The Ivy League is not what it once was and Yale Law blows away Harvard Law any day of the week. Even Stanford Law beats it.

BTW, Magna Cum Laude does not mean "top of the class". That would be maxima cum laude. At Harvard, "Magna Cum Laude" means a 3.3 GPA. Top of the class? Not even close.

mirage  posted on  2008-08-31   2:47:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Whatever happened to summa cum laude?

That used to be the designation of the top student or students.

Sam Houston  posted on  2008-08-31   9:16:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Whatever happened to summa cum laude?

Summa Cum Laude (what I got) is, at Harvard, for people with a 3.5 GPA or above.

FWIW, four generations of family have attended or taught at Harvard.

mirage  posted on  2008-08-31   10:56:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

It's not worth much at all to the GOP base. Even the Chimp, who got an MBA from Harvard, afterwards joined the chorus of GOPers denigrating the "elitist" Ivy League.

It makes you wonder why he went to Yale and Harvard to begin with. He must really hate himself. Either that or Poppy made him go. If the latter, it gave him another reason to despise the old man.

Sam Houston  posted on  2008-08-31   11:02:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#18. To: Sam Houston (#17)

Ivy League schools do this thing called "legacy admissions" where if you're the child/grandchild of a graduate, they grease the wheels for you to slide in. They do the same thing at Rice University down in Texas and several others.

You can also just flat-out buy a seat if you really want one, at least at Harvard. I don't know about Yale. At Chez Mirage, we're allergic to Yalies.

They also do some serious Affirmative Action tweaking over there so if you're black, female, or any other "minority", an Ivy League admission can be discounted because the standards are lowered by a VERY significant amount.

USNA also does legacy admissions, but you still have to get a Congresscritter to sponsor you.

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