Trump is partly correct. Obama’s high school grades weren’t good enough to qualify for admission to an Ivy League school without affirmative action. But even affirmative action, whatever it might have been, wasn’t enough to overcome his mediocre high school grades. Nor was his matriculation into and graduation from Punahou, the kind of classy prep school the Ivies like.
That’s why he went to Occidental, a second-tier college.
But then he had a change of attitude and was able to compile a record good enough to let him transfer to an Ivy League college, thence to law school at one of the two top-rated colleges in the western hemisphere.
Affirmative action gets you in the door. After that you sink or swim. But in Obama’s case it didn’t even get him in the door. Getting his act together and having the right stuff did.
Little side note: ranchers and farmers would know that Obama is an X-1 Hybrid: that is, his parents’ lineages were separated by many thousands of years. Ranchers and farmers know that X-1 hybrids tend to have outstanding genetics. It’s sometimes called “hybrid vigor”—the opposite of being “inbred.”
Now here’s a question for you: should college admissions be based strictly on student academic performance? No college in America believes that. They look for a variety of factors.
One isn’t called affirmative action, but it is: money. Top colleges especially need students who can pay full pop in order to pay for the scholarship students. And if the parents are big donors to the school, well, money talks, ya know?
So ask yourself: given his lackluster grades and unpleasant personal character, would Trump have gotten into Fordham (and transferred to Penn), if poppa hadn’t been a Daddy Warbucks?
It’s the $$$ form of affirmative action that lets mediocre students into the best schools, shining in the reflected glow of daddy’s wealth.
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