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Guess they are worrying about him cursing a bunch? Or need to have "technical difficulties" just in case he says something that might make Hannity's head explore?

Right below the ANY key.

145 IQ? I think the letter that Cohen sent to Fordham leads me to believe that 145 might be just a tad high. BTW, just love the PS on this letter. Cohen could have been in Jimmy The Gent's crew.

No, not jumping to conclusions ... just using the old hyperbole that this seems to warrant. Yeah, Harvard's more liberal than the nation as a whole. It's less than the CA schools that you mentioned. I guess I'm not really seeing where you are going with this as I haven't seen much more than conjecture that he shouldn't have gotten into Harvard. The fact that Harvard admits 2% with lower scores means that this kid ends up in that under 2% ... not in spite of it. Given how I've seen admissions work and scholarships granted and chances taken, I'm pretty sure how it happened and it again has very little to do with his political beliefs. I could be completely off the mark, but a couple of decades plus in university settings including selection committees for high profile programs, high dollar scholarships, and graduate program admissions as well as undergraduate admissions processes, says that I'd have to be completely off the mark based on how I've seen it play out.

Or maybe liberals' parents are donating more money.

@gonzoron's making a broader statement in that there are plenty of people who used and bought this explanation when it came from/about someone much higher up the ladder ... all the way to the top no doubt. I'm fairly certain, seeing many of his posts, especially those in OOB, that he doesn't condone the behavior and is, in fact, set against it.

Depends on which side of the Mason-Dixon line you're standing on.

Actually, I'm quite serious if your meme was serious. I was pointing out that, in the broader schemes of things, that if the measurement for claiming that something doesn't work is that there's a problem, then the US is certainly in that same boat. BTW, doesn't matter if it's a democracy or republic ... if part tries to break away, obviously it was considered a "failure" for enough to turn it into a war.

The problem is that many conservatives buy into the idea that somehow Harvard and the Ivy Leagues are harboring a bunch of communists and ignore the fact that there are PLENTY of conservatives that have attended and thrived at these schools. Let's kind of put this idea to rest fairly quickly ... famous Harvard alums include Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs. GS isn't exactly the poster company for liberal thought. Michael Corbatt at Citibank. Another company that's not necessarily known for being a bastion of liberal thought. Kendell Powell at General Mills is on record with donations to the likes of Pompeo, Republican, as well as McCollum, Democrat. Toss in that they have some 60 billionaire alums too ... and you know that socialists dominate the ranks of billionaires all over the works. If folks seriously believe that a conservative outlook keeps you from getting into Harvard, then they are overlooking the obvious that there are plenty of folks with conservative leanings that get in and successfully get through Harvard.

Several of the California schools are "uber liberal" compared to others. For some reason, you keep asking the questions like it was his stance and not his actions that got him into the schools. That may work for some, but not for most of the common folks. For the common guy, stances don't matter to most admissions boards ... actions do. If he's a 19-year old author with a negotiated book contract from Random House and a published book that garners sales, it probably doesn't matter to the admissions board if it's about building birdhouses or about gun control. BTW, his book holds a #50 ranking in College & University Student Life category, #92 in Civics and Citizenship, and #87 in Education Administration. It also ended up on the New York Times best-seller list. Wonder how many other applicants had a book or similar rankings? Wonder how many applicants to college in general have a published book through a publisher and achieved results?

So the US, when it had its Civil War, was also an admission that democracy doesn't work?

Kind of like the coke traces in your paper currency ... only grosser.

Yeah, the US is behind the rest of the world on this. This was standard fare at the McDonald's in Madrid when I was there last summer. I know Lafayette has these at one of their stores ... I haven't checked the ones by the campus yet. For each person that McDonald's takes off of a shift per store per day, they save roughly $1 billion and that's recurring. They also don't call in sick when they really aren't, don't need to be re-trained when one quits and new one is handled, and are cheaper standing around when the traffic is light. Standard McDonald's comes with four screens which takes out the need for four cashiers at rush ... probably two average during the course of the day. Check out the drink machines too. The new ones are tied into the order system and drop cups into a "chain" which then sits under the nozzle which dispenses the drink. Only human interaction there is putting the lid on the cups. Probably just a matter of time before those machines create a flap seal like a juice pouch and you won't need human interaction on that machine either.

I doubt it'll be much of a problem as there are already plenty of meth addicts, opioid abusers, and moped brigade DUI folks to infest those fields. Will end up being a natural deterrent.

You missed the one amendment that was added ... you can grow it, but you can't sell it or smoke it. 🙂

I remember those things. Quite a shame that they had to exist for general safety in just being a citizen.

Santa Barbara and UCLA clock in in the Top 100. Irvine cracks the Top 125 and San Diego finishes in top 150. Harvard clocks in around 265 out of 687 according to Niche.

Reminds me of Mike Pence at a Colts game, except that there wasn't an usher to force him back in the seat and it wasn't a per-orchestrated stunt.

Haven't seen The Green Book or BlacKkKlansman, but if it's similar to the mix between DMD and DTRT, then I feel for him. I liked DMD as a movie, but "felt" more with DTRT ... it left much more of an impression on me than DMD. I've watched DTRT many, many times since the first viewing. I've only watched DMD once since my initial viewing in a movie theater.

Golf is not a bad choice either for some schools with scholarship. The other suggestion is not to be too perfect on the grades. There are a bunch of kids every year that don't get in to elites that have "perfects."

https://nypost.com/2018/10/17/harvards-gatekeeper-reveals-sat-cutoff-scores-based-on-race/ FTA: Fitzsimmons explained a similar process for white wannabe students in states that don’t see a lot of Harvard attendees, like Montana or Nevada. Students in those states would receive a recruitment letter if they had at least a 1310 on their SATs. Also, I stated that Harvard was sending mailers to those kids. It would reason that, if Harvard is spending money sending mailers based on a 1310 SAT score, then they are certainly open to admitting some as well. As for outlier, yeah it is an outlier. Not sure anyone said that it was the norm nor even implied it. As for understanding admissions, I would say that having three kids in college gives you a cursory understanding of the admissions process unless you've actually been on the inside or spent an inordinate amount of time researching it and, even then, you still don't get to see them make the everlasting-gobstopper ... you just get one. I have two in college and have served on admissions boards, scholarship boards, admissions advisory panels, etc. I've seen the sausage being made for the better part of more than two decades and I can tell you that, while there are admissions qualifications, there's one word that just about every college/university uses in their process that gives them some modicum of some flexibility: holistic. As for defending gun rights, etc., a student focusing on those may well have a better chance being accepted at another school like my alma mater in Texas where you have to have an NRA membership and at least a one 25-straight round and no less than 23 over three rounds attached to your application than this kid did getting to Harvard. As for schools seeing something that other schools don't, that happens ALL OF THE TIME. Again, a diamond in the rough rarely ever gets selected at every top school they apply at. Most get a one short long shot. As for political views aligning with a school's, of course that's a potential issue. I imagine BYU potentially takes atheists, but I bet they take a lot less than Mormans although I wouldn't be surprised if some were. I bet there aren't too many pacifists that get admitted to West Point although I wouldn't be surprised if some were. University of Chicago may well take communists, but probably not unless you wrote the Communist Manifesto. I would expect, however, that in Harvard's case, what he believed in was less important than what he did with it. Just being a gun advocate wouldn't catch most folks' attention. Being a gun advocate with a co-authored book and a developed non-profit that wasn't just a funnel for the NRA would probably get just as many looks as this kid did. I'm not vegan and I doubt I could ever be vegan, but on an admissions board, I'd give a kid who started and maintained his own vegan restaurant just as much credit as a kid who opened his own fast food joint ... maybe even more given the issues associated with a more niche market. I don't care for romance novels, but I'd give equal credit to an incoming kid who was a successful romance author as I would to someone who was a successful sci-fi writer. I may care for pale ale as opposed to stout, but if I had a kid who figured out how to create his own craft-beer and created a brewery, he's probably get a good look from me even though I'd probably not drink the product. Very often it's what you did rather than what was the leaning of what you did. If you want to question Harvard, I'd think you'd get more traction trying to figure out how someone like Kushner got in when it seems like many didn't think he'd make that cut. There's a conservative for you that made it in to Harvard that doesn't seem to have had the credentials. I'm sure though that they "overlooked" his pro-gun stance. Doctor.

I think it may depend on the class as well as the kid. Unfortunately, I don't recall the kid's name, but back in 2010, 1A Churubusco had a kid that played offensive guard. He was definitively smaller than the rest of the line and definitively smaller than the LCC defense that he was facing that night, but if I recall correctly, not a single sack or backfield hit was attributable to the guy that he was blocking. That kid was phenomenal for his [lack of] size, but also his effectiveness. He was very quick and seemed to understand body leverage very well. Size is probably the "sight unseen" answer, but in the case of that kid from Churubusco, he didn't let that size get in his way at all.

Possibly the same reason that, despite the fact that most races consume, sell, and buy pot in similar proportions to their population, Blacks are much more likely to be arrested for pot possession/use and to be incarcerated at higher rates than Whites. Even as pot laws are relaxed, Blacks still end up being arrested and incarcerated at a much higher rate proportionally than their White counterparts.