Unemployment, and so on

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I have a sneaking suspicion that they have regrets about admitting George W. Bush, who wasn't exactly a model student

I bet Yale is happy to have been his Alma Matter.

His Yale record is pretty average, but then again it is Yale and not Occidental college. He's never really claimed to be a scholar either.

Obama's degree at Columbia, after transferring from Occidental was without honors, meaning his GPA was less than 3.3. Harvard Law School is not easy to get into, even if you have affirmative action on your side. They get about 7,000 applications a year, for about 500 seats. The applicants LSAT scores generally chart in the 98 to 99 percentile range, and their GPAs average between 3.80 and 3.95. We don't know his LSAT, or SAT scores -- and if they were stellar, we'd know about them. His GPA at Columbia was not stellar. At Harvard Law, he graduated Magna Cum Laude, so in the top 10%. So, suddenly he got serious about his studies. I'd be interested in seeing his transcripts. We can guess that someone pulled some strings for him to get into Harvard, and it was probably (Donald Warden) Khalid al-Mansour (according to Percy Sutton) who probably met and befriended Obama at Columbia. Which just goes to show... With success in life, it's usually who you know, more than what you know.

It's hard to measure a person, let alone a leader, only by their scholastic abilities, or even by standardized tests.