fimchick said:
Like I said, I guess they didn't pay the teachers enough money for higher grades huh? I wonder why someone would get their son into college using all their money and power, and then let the teachers only get them by with a C level GPA. Doesn't make much sense hmmm...?
Did I say pay the teachers? No, but at the same time, and given George W's lack luster grades from before, he didn't exactly have the merits where, had he been someone other then Prescott Bush's grandson, he would have gotten in.
Skull and Bones has it's influence on Yale University campus, and the Bush family is very much a Bones family... And BTW, family has a lot to do with it, when it comes to whom to select. Had I chose to go to Princeton, I would have had a leg up on being accepted, because of my father having been a graduate there... Being the son of a graduate, is considered a plus in the application process, and would have been for me too, or so I have been told and not just by my father himself...
As to chapter 322, I had a teacher in high school who was previously a professor at Yale University... She taught both physics there, and in their school of medicine. Basically she ran into situations where again and again students in her own class didn't know material they were expected to prior to taking her class...
She finally began to wonder about the educational system in this country, and started asking some people she knew who were working in the field of physics these days "did you take high school physics?" "Yes" "Do you feel you got anythign from it?" "No..." She decided to go back to teaching in a high school to try to remedy the situation, though when the high school wanted to get rid of her for essentially doing what was right, Yale wanted her back, and 12 other universities all sent her job offers asking her to please come teach there...
Lets just say one day I mentioned chapter 322, don't ask me why or how it came up. I normally wouldn't bring up something so contentious out of the blue. We had a talk about it, and it wasn't that long. But the short of it, she got an idea what I knew, and she confirmed it as fact... She was speaking from the stand point of someone who was on the faculty there... Actually we were on fairly good terms, I don't think she really minded...