On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:06:06 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote:

On Oct 10, 6:48*pm, wrote:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tom

I had forgotten about UT Law, and that's only one school, not schools,
but your premise is negated regardless. *Being rejected by _one_ law
school is meaningless.....


Yeah, but what does it take to get rejected by a Law School when your
dad is the past long-serving Chairman of the State Republican party, a
current US Congressman, your Grandaddy had been a US Senator, and you
had just gone to an elite prestigious New England private school and
had just graduated from Yale?

An "average" LSAT score combined with an "average" college transcript.
And there are lots of folks with a lot more pull at UT than the Bushes
had at that time whose "average" kids didn't get into UT Law. In fact,
I know of one who had a similar record to Bush, didn't get into UT Law,
went to St. Mary's, graduated, passed the bar, and not only do I
consider him to be a better-than-average lawyer, he considered so by a
fair portion of his Bar.

And FWIW, Bush scored a 1200 or so on his SAT, and had a decent prep
record, so academically, he could have gotten into a fair number of
undergrad schools regardless of who his family might be. Heck, Yale
turned down Bill Bradley, who had a lower SAT than Bush, and Kerry's SAT
was lower than Bush's, but he got in (a legacy, too). I have no idea if
they are correct, but seemingly objective analysis of the publicly-known
Bush test results indicate that he is in the top 5 percent or so in
"intelligence."

That was no small rejection. I would LOVE to know the conversation
that took place in the Admissions Office that day....

I dunno...I suspect it was pretty routine, but ???

TC,
R

--riverman