2006-08-02 05:13:53 · 15 answers · asked by imlaura2006 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Several posters have put their fingers on key points, especially the "legacy" admission factor. but there's more to it than that.
Although American colleges and universities in the period after 1966 filled up with young men seeking draft deferments during the Vietnam War - a situation that caused great inequity in the draft, by the way - when Bush graduated high school in 1964, competition for college admission was much lower, and it was possible for many students to obtain admission to good schools with "C" or better averages. He actually began the admissions application process in 1963, and the combination of wealth (the colleges NEEDED students who paid full tuition to make up for those who did not), prior family members as alumni, and political and business influence certainly helped. With a less-competitive "market" of prospective students, then, it was not as difficult as would be the case today.
A side note - Bush belonged, as did many other notables from all bands of the political spectrum - to the infamous "Skull and Bones Society" at Yale. This organization is well-documented elsewhere. What's interesting is that it was financed in the 1850's by creation of a fund, still operating today, established by American shipping scion and future first American-born Chairman of the UK's powerful Barings Bank, Russell Sturgis. The Sturgis family - and the Baring Brothers - made thier biggest volume of money in the China opium trade, and fomented the 1840 "Opium War" that began the ultimate fall of the Chinese empire.
2006-08-03 02:05:12 · answer #1 · answered by Der Lange 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His oil rich family bribed his way through college. He was given a 'C' just to show he passed...the big dunce!
It also shows the corruption at the higher education level. Can you imagine the average Joe or Jane trying to enter Yale with a 'C' average? Tough luck.
2006-08-02 05:20:16 · answer #2 · answered by CATHOLIC PRIEST!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, money, money, and oh yeah....
His father was an alumnus, as were many others in that family. Bush got in as a "legacy" student, meaning they just saw the name on the papers, looked at their alumni donors list and saw that his father and a few uncles both *went there* and later *donated* generously.
Hope that covers enough of the sordid details.
2006-08-02 05:30:40 · answer #3 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see if you had Bush for a last name I think you'd get far too! Going to college didn't do much for him he can't even run a country right!
2006-08-02 05:20:32 · answer #4 · answered by wolfpack0810 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess you think everyone at Yale got there because they all have better than a 4.0?
guess again.
2006-08-02 05:18:21 · answer #5 · answered by alwaysbombed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same way he won the presidency:
Daddy called in some favours from his buddies and took care of everything
2006-08-02 05:17:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lets just say that his admission fee was a little higher than the average student
2006-08-02 05:18:31 · answer #7 · answered by deadly_donkey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Money talks,and so does his daddy. He hates to lose even when doing it the wrong way. Pem
2006-08-02 05:19:33 · answer #8 · answered by Patricia M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He had the great intelligence to choose the right parents.
2006-08-02 05:26:00 · answer #9 · answered by Hermit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rich parents
2006-08-02 05:17:50 · answer #10 · answered by Solveig 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋