Wednesday, January 22, 2003

He Was Admitted Under A Special Program For Ivy Drug Users

According to Bush (and his toadies, like Mickey Kaus), it's wrong to give a college applicant bonus points because of his or her race. Yet, race is the only explanation as to how Bush got into Yale. It wasn't on academic merit, as Joe Conason points out:

"Why was the Andover dean so concerned about Bush's prospects at Yale? Perhaps he glanced at Bush's SAT score of 1206, above average but nowhere near the level needed for acceptance at an Ivy League school. (According to Cecil Adams, who writes the Straight Dope column, Bush's score was almost 200 points lower than the average for Yale freshmen circa 1970.) Bush's middling SAT score, incidentally, is roughly the same as that for most of the black students admitted to selective schools in a major Mellon Foundation study that began in 1976." (Warning: Link is behind the Salon.com Curtain)
So how many non-white students -- and women -- were denied admission to Yale even though they had higher scores than Bush?

And I would propose even more relevant questions: How many non-white students were denied entry to Yale and the University of Texas even though they had higher SAT scores than Barbara and Jenna? And what would Bush say to them?

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