I do you a favour,
How affirmative action helped George W.
By Michael Kinsley
Monday, January 20, 2003
If our President had the slightest sense of irony, he might have paused to ask himself, "Wait a minute. How did I get into Yale?" It wasn't because of any academic achievement: his high school record was ordinary. It wasn't because of his life experience--prosperous family, fancy prep school--which was all too familiar at Yale. It wasn't his SAT scores: 566 verbal and 640 math.
They may not have had an explicit point system at Yale in 1964, but Bush clearly got in because of affirmative action. Affirmative action for the son and grandson of alumni. Affirmative action for a member of a politically influential family. Affirmative action for a boy from a fancy prep school. These forms of affirmative action still go on.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Harvard accepts 40% of applicants who are children of alumni but only 11% of applicants generally. And this kind of affirmative action makes the student body less diverse, not more so. George W. Bush, in fact, may be the most spectacular affirmative-action success story of all time. Until 1994, when he was 48 years old and got elected Governor of Texas, his life was almost empty of accomplishments.
Just so as we can compare things, my verbal score was 630 and my math score was 660 for a combined score of 1290 out of 1400. I neglected to apply to Yale however, or actually graduate from high school. There is still the faint possibility that I might one day become Prime Minister of Canada but of course I'd have to start making an effort. Get right on that, Gord.
posted by kodeureum | 4:00 am
4 Comments:
again, there is no link to e topic. i hope u dun aspire to b a lawyer cuz u will most prob b arguing out of point all e time.
anyhows, mind telling me wat r ur roots/origin? u certainly dun look korean. :)
I would estimate about a 230 verbal for paintpastelprincess. The origin of my roots is my scalp.
Well, Gordo, I applaud your political aspirations...naturally, you'd have my vote. Myself? I'm thinking of running for the position of God. I have a good set of qualifications for said position...I'm rude, vengeful and arbitrary. What do you think? (Remember that if I win the seat that I will totally hold all negative comments against you....FYI)
You know I never graduated from High School either...I dropped out after taking my Sat and being excepted into art school. I simpley couldn't wait the additional 6 mounths and besides as I had gotten into so much trouble during my senior year as it was there was a good chance I wouldn't have been able to do so anyway...it's a funny ol' world!
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