| Topic Name: |
End Affirmative Action And Legacies |
| Message Name: |
You have a very short memory |
| Date Posted: |
04/18/2001 |
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Despite managing to get only 'C's at Yale, somehow Dubya got into HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL. Somebody, please explain this to me. How can the most influential and elite business school accept someone with only a 'C' average? Must be AA. I am sure being the son of the head of the CIA had something to do with it. |
| Message: |
Going to business school was not the competitive process then that we see today. In the 70's getting into a top school like Harvard was relatively easy compared with today. I know a dozen guys who went to Harvard and Stanford in the 70's who readily admit they could never get into the programs today. Most top schools actually had difficulty filling thier seats, there just wasn't the percieved added value. The same was true of medical, until 1990 you had a 1 in 2 chance of going to a given program. In the 90's that jumped to a 1 in 10. Also just an FYI I did get into several top 10 B-schools in 1999 with a C average, without being a legacy or a minority. Infact my worst semester as an undergrad was a 0.7 gpa on a 4.0 scale.
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