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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (13942)	3/3/2000 8:52:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 769667

In fact, it's surprising, also, that W got into Yale... I hope that the Yale library used to have some comic books those days. Otherwise, Duh will be unable to claim that he made use of the college library!

To: E who wrote (13942)	3/3/2000 9:07:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Legacy admission is the term, I think. I don't watch TV enough to know how W talks, but he can't be any worse than his father, who could fracture syntax with the best of them. And I don't think his father was dumb, either, though he was allegedly "out of the loop" at times. Cheers, Dan.

To: E who wrote (13942)	3/3/2000 9:50:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I think its called "legacy" admission. Even today, at leading schools, perhaps 10 per cent of admissions are reserved for legacies. Usually they are a separate class, with plenty of smart guys at the top of the list. That is doubtless how Bush got into Yale. A few are reserved for athletes and artists -- and always have been doubtless that was how Bradley got into Princeton. Selections for Rhodes Scholarships are based primarily on state of residency. The candidate must be successful in his studies and preferably an athlete. Interviews are critical. Rhodes specified that scholars should be hearty gentlemen. Genius level people are selected as Harvard Junior Fellows (if at all able to relate to others like Tom Lehrer). The really smart are abducted into graduate school to work with the star professors. Oxford is considered to be rather infra dig for real scholars (there are some excellent professors) but a Rhodes scholar almost never seeks a doctorate, which is just as well, because the failure rate is ridiculously jacked up by cruel and degenerate martinets. You can always tell an Oxford man, but you cannot tell him much.