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Just wondering: Is there any decent Pdf host besides scribd? Every time I visit the site I regret it once again. The list of additional domains to whitelist in no-script just to view the content is endless. Just a simple Pdf link would be much more pleasant.
It's not a PDF, but here's the source: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPP-002-00...
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.
Its easy to be critical of JFK's admission to Harvard as a result of priviledge. I think it natural and correct. Lots of people go to Harvard, ordinary (my niece) and priviledged. Those with money and power, use it to get good things for their progeny. Else why gain money and power? Its not just scorekeeping. If I can't work hard to get better things for my children, then its all a game. In a free market things are f…
>They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards. No they don't. Harvard, like just about every university these days, has need-blind admissions. http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/financial_aid/inde... As a middle-class high school senior, I would like to point at that Harvard's net price per year for me would be ~$13,000, or roughly half the in-state price of my local state school, the U…
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>They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards. No they don't. Harvard, like just about every university these days, has need-blind admissions. http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/financial_aid/inde... As a middle-class high school senior, I would like to point at that Harvard's net price per year for me would be ~$13,000, or roughly half the in-state price of my local state school, the U…
> >They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards. > No they don't. Harvard, like just about every university these days, has need-blind admissions. "Need blind" doesn't imply "legacy blind" or "blind to the political connections of the applicant's family". Harvard may not distinguish between someone who can pay and someone who can't, but I would be surprised if they didn't distinguish between s…
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>They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards. No they don't. Harvard, like just about every university these days, has need-blind admissions. http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/financial_aid/inde... As a middle-class high school senior, I would like to point at that Harvard's net price per year for me would be ~$13,000, or roughly half the in-state price of my local state school, the U…
Wow, who do you know? My niece cost double that, as I recall.
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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.
The reason people don't seem to be calling for those applications is because of family ties and connections, there was certainly never speculation that any of those men attended college on a Foreign Exchange scholarship. I am not a fan of all the political hogwash about Obama not being American etc. I have plenty of gripes with just about every president on their politics alone and he is certainly no different, so fo…
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Then why not change the subject to Coolidge?
Now you're being disingenuous. It is quite simple: People have many interests. Interest is not a binary term - One can be interested in varying degrees. Perhaps he is interested in all presidents' admission records, but more interested in the current president because it is more relevant to his life than others. Just because there is relevance, does NOT imply partisanship. By analogy I find operating system internals…
Somehow it is changed to a demand for documents from the current President in the middle of an election season.
If you are interested in all admission records, there is no reason to single out Obama... say you think all Presidents should have their admission records released.
This is more like 'look at this interesting snippet of code from CP/M' resulting in yelling about binary blobs in some modern OS. Totally irrelevant and political.
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If you would favor seeing all transcripts, then why did you choose to single out Obama? 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 j…
Perhaps because obamba is the current president? Why so sensitive?
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Now you're being disingenuous. It is quite simple: People have many interests. Interest is not a binary term - One can be interested in varying degrees. Perhaps he is interested in all presidents' admission records, but more interested in the current president because it is more relevant to his life than others. Just because there is relevance, does NOT imply partisanship. By analogy I find operating system internals…
I'm not being disingenuous. The topic was of intellectual, historical interest - about JFK. Who did not release the documents. They are just documents about JFK. Somehow it is changed to a demand for documents from the current President in the middle of an election season. If you are interested in all admission records, there is no reason to single out Obama... say you think all Presidents should have their admission…
And your analogy is wrong too: It is like saying here is code from CP/M, and someone saying "how do modern OSes handle that feature?". That question is not advocacy for new OSes, it is a question of comparison between eras.
You are trying to ascribe motive and sinister desires to a neutral statement.
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>They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards. No they don't. Harvard, like just about every university these days, has need-blind admissions. http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/financial_aid/inde... As a middle-class high school senior, I would like to point at that Harvard's net price per year for me would be ~$13,000, or roughly half the in-state price of my local state school, the U…
> >They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards. > No they don't. Harvard, like just about every university these days, has need-blind admissions. "Need blind" doesn't imply "legacy blind" or "blind to the political connections of the applicant's family". Harvard may not distinguish between someone who can pay and someone who can't, but I would be surprised if they didn't distinguish between s…
The interesting thing is that, whatever political interests they want to indulge, they need not be swayed by a potential student's family's ability to fund a new building any more than they need be swayed by a poor but gifted student's inability to pay full tuition. Their endowment is the largest of any university in the world, at $26 billion, and there is no shortage of people willing to give them more.