How did Barack Obama get into Columbia? (Time to finally vet Barack Obama)

Lets go to the requirements for Magna Cum Laude for Harvard Law School:

http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/careers/ocs/employers/about-our-students/grading.html

4. For students who matriculated as of, or after, Fall Term 2008, the summa cum laude will be determined by the requirement of a 4.75 GPA. The honor is exact and does not involve "rounding off"; ie., a GPA of 4.749 does not result in a degree summa cum laude. If, in a given year, no student earns a GPA of 4.75 or higher, summa cum laude will be awarded to the student (or students in the case of a tie) with the highest overall GPA.

5. The magna cum laude will be awarded to the next ten percent of the entire class.

Now I did find reference that Harvard Law School tightened up the issuance of Magna Cum Laude in 1999- but I can't find any percentages of what applied before that.

But by pretty much any standards- graduating Magna Cum Laude from what is arguably the top law school in the country is pretty decent.

 

Yer jist soooo easy!!!

5. The magna cum laude will be awarded to the next ten percent of the entire class. AND TIES!

6. The cum laude will be awarded to the next 30 percent of the entire class. AND TIES!


So theoretically 100% of the class could graduate with honors.

Just like Golf. Only those players within 10 strokes of the leader [,,,,,,,AND TIES!] get to play after the cut.

If no ties then 40% of the class graduates with honors.

 

Oh dear, you just can't fess up to the fact that you were wrong can you? If you have any evidence to suggest that significantly more than 10% of the graduating class of 1991 graduated magna cum laude, feel free to present it.


40% may graduate with honors, but not all honors are equal. Obama graduated with the second highest honor in the top law school in the country. The attempts to diminish that distinction are really pathetic.

 

Well some research found some answers:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1999/6/10/new-hls-grading-system-reduces-honors/

In the old system, honors were determined based on a student's General Average, a number indicating a student's overall academic performance based on a grade scale ranging from 0 to 8.

Students with a General Average of 7.20 or higher were designated as summa cum laude, while a 5.8 and a 4.85 was necessary to receive magna cum laude and cum laude honors respectively.

5.8 out of 8 is 72.5%. Now that seems somewhat low- but take a look at Summa Cum laude- 7.2 out of 8 is 90%.

"Summa cum laude is still determined the same way as before, though only two students since 1982--one this year and one the year before--have had the necessary 7.2 General Average."

So what does all this mean?

Still means every Harvard Law School Magna Cum Laude Law School graduate is glad to have it on their resume.

Does it mean that Obama is smart? Nope....but it does mean he had more than decent grades in Harvard.



Now what were Romney's grades again?

Oh thats right- just like Obama, he has chosen not to release his grades.

 

If you would wander back thru this thread you would find that I'm the one who said that what b.o. did from High school through HLS doesn't matter. It is his abject failure and complete ineptitude as president and over $5 trillion in new debt that is reason enough to fire this idiot clown.
43 presidents ran up $10 trillion in debt in 216 years, b.o. has increased that by $5 trillion in 3.5 years. NO OTHER president is even in the same league of incompetence as b.o.! He OWNS 1/3 of the total historic debt in a mere 3.5 years. No other president has ever had a trillion dollar deficit, in fact, not even a HALF trillion deficit. b.o.'s never had a deficit below TRIPLE the next highest deficit any president ever had.

Even if he was only a fairly bad president, we can't afford him any longer.

 

4.75 gpa, isn't 4.0 an A ie 100%?

 

Have you EVER heard of that happening at ANY university let alone Harvard?!

 

"How on Earth did Barack Obama get into Columbia University?"

Maybe the guy that was in charge of keeping blacks out was sick or on vacation and someone admitted Obama by mistake.

 

how come we havent seen any of Romneys work from Harvard law? Cant we see his dissertation about the unconstitutionality of anti-polygamy laws?

 

Yeah, right... heard it all before, rahl (*sigh*). Still, it is good to see you and the other loyal members of Obama's Praetorian Guard on duty, doing your jobs. Although we disagree thoroughly on everything regarding Ben Bernanke's housepet, your devotion and diligence are admirable, if sadly misplaced. I tell you truly, rahl, Obama doesn't deserve you.

You can't tell me that Obama's handlers couldn't have produced a simple, direct copy of the original "Birth Certificate -- the Director's Cut" instead of that software construction they rolled out last year. And, you still haven't explained why even this layered .PDF file bears a number that is out of sequence with the other recorded births. Etc., etc., etc.

It is clear to anyone who searches for the information for even half an hour why President Transparent deliberately hides his school records -- because it could easily cause the whole deceptive house of cards to fall down. But don't worry. You're dealing with Americans, and the dumbing-down process that has gone on in this country for over thirty years has worked very well! Besides, right now you Praetorians have bigger problems: the imminent destruction of Obamacare, showing what an inept moron President Teleprompter really is. But that will be the food for a different banquet, and I hope to see you there, too! Cheers!

 

Hes supported his assertion complete with link. Youve supported yours with repeated bouts of arrogance and nothing else.

 

Vetting President Obama would be a current event since it's never been done. I suppose Gov. Romney being a bully in high school is a current event?

 

Do you guys really believe that there's gonna be some sort of investigation into Obama's eligibility after he's already served a term?

You guys are hilarious...

Especially since all relevent (and some irrelevent) information is out there already...

lol

 

1. BC is already out... sorry you have trouble with that...

2. How is Obama hiding his school records? Because you haven't personally seen them? And more importantly, how would they be relevent to his Presidency? lol

Your post is a massive display of the nonsense that birthers have lived off of for about four years or so now...

And it's really, really sad...

 

lol yes a link to a joke site that he claimed was official.

but I appreciate another opportunity to point out just horribly uninformed the righties on this thread are

 

That still doesn't explain how 50% of a law school class would graduate in the top 10% of said class...

That seems to be statiscally impossible...

 

He was a transfer. They don't really look at high school transcripts for transfer students, because college transcripts are a much better predictor of how someone will do in college.


It's almost as if these birthers know nothing about how college works. I wonder why?

 

Since Obama opponents have been demanding that he produce records from his college all the way to kindergarten for the last 4 years- how exactly is this a current event?

Now if someone demanded college records of Romney- that would be new and a current event.

Or if someone came out and alleged that Obama was a bully in high school- that would be a current event.

But asking the same unilateral demands only of Obama that have been made for the last 4 years- not a current event.

 

The one thing that is obvious about this thread is that Obama's opponents demand seperate and different treatment of Obama than of Romney.

 

well to be fair I bet they are just as misinformed about Romney as they are OBama, just in different ways lol

 

Dixon... no worries about MG. People quit taking him too seriously a while ago. He is about distraction and parsing words, but has little substance.

I offered a link which directly has copied of Bush's grades, but of course that is not good enough... yet he complains about "Birthers".

 

Remind me again- what were Bush's grades in Harvard?

Oh thats right- Bush never released his Harvard grades....hmmm who does that remind us of?

 

Can you say, "theoretically?"

 

Facts not in evidence.