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Heh. Get born into the right family and off to Harvard you go.
I would be interested to hear other's thoughts on JFK's answer to why he would like to attend Harvard. I suck at writing essays but it seems his reason for wanting to attend Harvard is incredibly trite and superfluous, especially coming from a man who would eventually be considered a great orator. For example, he states that Harvard " is a university with something definite to offer." Yet gives no definitive examples…
They should put up Obama's application to Harvard...or Occidental and Columbia for that matter.
Do we really need every thread that mentions the keyword 'President' to contain this kind of partisan rubbish? I don't see you calling for Reagan's, Bush's or Romney's applications.
The recommendation letter takes pains to talk about JFKs health and vigor, but this is now known to be a front. He had health problems from an early age, and took lots of medications. Reference: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec02/jfk_11-18.h...
The letter from his father to Harvard does mention that he has had some health problems (blood disease) but that he has fully recovered. Interesting that he was willing to contradict the letter of recommendation that you mentioned. However, it looks like the letter from his father was sent after he had been admitted, so maybe it didn't matter anymore.
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Do we really need every thread that mentions the keyword 'President' to contain this kind of partisan rubbish? I don't see you calling for Reagan's, Bush's or Romney's applications.
His comment doesn't really seem partisan in any way to me. It's just a statement that it would be interesting to see the current president's college applications too, as it would be interesting to see any president's college applications.
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Does his application make him out to be unworthy? I'm having a difficult time reading bits.
I am not sure of how the grading system worked at his particular school at that particular time, but it would appear that JFK received numerous C's and D's during high school (see: scores in the 60s and 70s on page four).
I'm curious: does anyone know the context of the grades in the application? I saw actual grades listed in three places (pages 3, 17 and 26). He seems to have received scores ranging from 50-85. Are these out of 100? If so, it appears he wasn't a great student. He was ranked 65th out of 110 students (page 17). I'm not questioning his intelligence, he was clearly brilliant. However, I find it interesting that he was an…
However, why would his father write things like that?
They should put up Obama's application to Harvard...or Occidental and Columbia for that matter.
comment wasn't meant to be partison. I would favor seeing all former president / presidential candidates transcripts regardless of party. They're hardly relevant anyways as whom someone is when they apply to college (typically 17-18 years old in the US) than whom they are as an adult.
I hope you'll understand why I struggle to believe that this singling-out is purely coincidental in the context of an election season where rhetoric about Obama being 'the least transparent in history' is abundant, on the same weekend as a new movie which claims to dig up sinister anti-American mysteries from Obama's past. It is just terribly convenient to bring up such issues as a topic change.
In any case I find it very irritating that almost any HN article tangentially touching on the government is co-opted for some kind of biased political propaganda, however subtle.
What number out of 110 students is he? 85th
What honors has he won in literary or scholastic pursuits? None
So JFK was basically just George W. Bush. Interesting.