Post by tex on Jan 11, 2006 22:29:42 GMT -5
November 02, 1999 - If George W. Bush '68 wants to be the next President, he should learn something from Bill Clinton: You can't keep anything under wraps these days.
So when Bush started being cagey recently about his grades at Yale -- it was never a secret that he was a long way from the Dean's List -- it was almost inevitable that sooner or later someone would get his hands on Bush's Yale transcript.
And it's there in full on page 30 of this week's New Yorker magazine, in a reproduction that looks like it's seen a few photocopiers and fax machines along the way.
The magazine reported that "in two separate instances" Yale students had "somehow got access to" the transcript, which somehow "made its way over" to the New Yorker editorial offices.
In his four years of enrollment here, Bush never got anything higher than an 88 -- Yale still had number grades back then -- and seemed more comfortable in the mid-70s, although he pulled a 69 in Astronomy. His cumulative average was a gentlemen's 77.
Bush was a busy man his junior year. The transcript lists quite a roster of intramural sports: tackle football, touch football, rugby, baseball and basketball. He also managed an 80 average for the year -- his best -- and came through with an 88 in Anthropology 25.
Freshman year was a little rough for Bush, who, like his father, came from prep school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.
It's a good thing he surrounds himself with talented advisors now, because he struggled in Political Science 13b (71), Sociology 55a (70) and Economics 10 (71 in the fall and 72 in the spring). The transcript puts him in the 21st percentile of his class for freshman year.
But don't laugh too hard; most students here now whine about having to carry a load of five courses half the time. Bush, a history major, took 40 credits while enrolled at Yale.
So when Bush started being cagey recently about his grades at Yale -- it was never a secret that he was a long way from the Dean's List -- it was almost inevitable that sooner or later someone would get his hands on Bush's Yale transcript.
And it's there in full on page 30 of this week's New Yorker magazine, in a reproduction that looks like it's seen a few photocopiers and fax machines along the way.
The magazine reported that "in two separate instances" Yale students had "somehow got access to" the transcript, which somehow "made its way over" to the New Yorker editorial offices.
In his four years of enrollment here, Bush never got anything higher than an 88 -- Yale still had number grades back then -- and seemed more comfortable in the mid-70s, although he pulled a 69 in Astronomy. His cumulative average was a gentlemen's 77.
Bush was a busy man his junior year. The transcript lists quite a roster of intramural sports: tackle football, touch football, rugby, baseball and basketball. He also managed an 80 average for the year -- his best -- and came through with an 88 in Anthropology 25.
Freshman year was a little rough for Bush, who, like his father, came from prep school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.
It's a good thing he surrounds himself with talented advisors now, because he struggled in Political Science 13b (71), Sociology 55a (70) and Economics 10 (71 in the fall and 72 in the spring). The transcript puts him in the 21st percentile of his class for freshman year.
But don't laugh too hard; most students here now whine about having to carry a load of five courses half the time. Bush, a history major, took 40 credits while enrolled at Yale.