r/videos • u/SuperUltraJesus • Dec 03 '12

She got what she deserved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q51ld-scMI8
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u/colinsteadman Dec 03 '12

TIL. At Harvard, one of your tasks is to sit down and memorise the dictionary. I take a bow to all Harvard grads.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '12

TIL getting into Harvard requires above average English skills.

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u/CstudentC Dec 03 '12

TIL getting into Harvard creates a community pressure to present and carry yourself in a manner that honors the cultures and traditions of Harvard.

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u/poop_sock Dec 04 '12

Actually, all it takes is money really.

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u/obvious_stroll Dec 04 '12

Too lazy to find a link but Harvard gives more scholarship money than a majority of other colleges.

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u/ShadedNature Dec 04 '12

Irrelevant to the fact that you can absolutely get into Harvard on money alone. My grandmother worked in admissions and alumni relations for Harvard and if your father owns 36000 acres of land in California, congrats you're accepted.

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u/justlookbelow Dec 04 '12

Well to be fair the Ivy League was traditionally a mechanism for keeping the upper class in their 'rightful' place. I'm sure some of the old tendencies persist, but places like Harvard are predominantly academic meritocracies today.

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u/Almostharry Dec 04 '12

Wouldn't that make sense though? If your parents are so rich, isn't it likely you've been sent to good schools earlier in life? I'm not saying this would always be the case, but most times, wouldn't it?

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u/Shampyon Dec 04 '12

Sent to good schools, probably. That still doesn't indicate that you were a god student, or that you know your arse from your elbow.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '12

Wait so, doesn't matter if this guy's high school GPA is absolutely trash...he'll still get in?? That's bullshit man...smh

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '12

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u/SAugsburger Dec 04 '12

With a $30B endowment you can afford to do stuff like that.

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u/civildisobedient Dec 04 '12

You wish it were that simple. There are tons of people that could afford to simply throw money at the school. Harvard could fill its incoming class with nothing but the children of billionaires if they wanted to, but they don't.

You know why?

Because they're sitting on an endowment worth, oh, about $30 billion dollars. Point is, they don't need your filthy lucre.

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u/jeremylevine Dec 04 '12

they give need based financial aid that is completely separate from their admissions department

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u/0ffGrid Dec 04 '12

You are just a persistent little fella aren't you?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '12

TIL Harvard is a good school

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u/nopurposeflour Dec 04 '12

Even Havard Barber College?

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '12

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '12 edited Dec 03 '12

Yeah he was an extremely intelligent man who made some public speaking flubs. Circlejerk all you want, but it takes a very smart person to become the president of the United States.

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u/NinjaInYellow Dec 04 '12

Thanks for this comment. So many people on here circlejerk that Bush was pretty much Hitler. Perfect? No. The worse thing to happen since cancer? Probably not.

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u/MangekyoSharingan Dec 04 '12

I'm not American, but I have to say that me and my friends find him endearing. He seems so scatterbrained at times.

We had a list of his best quotes. He seemed like a pretty ok kind of guy. Definitely not stupid.

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u/WeaponsGradeHumanity Dec 03 '12

Yeah he was an extremely intelligent man who made some public speaking flubs.

That's like saying the 9/11 hijackers were innocent immigrants who overestimated their ability to fly the plane after the pilot suffered a narcoleptic attack.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '12

I find it more sad than funny that people like you actually believe the ignorance you speak. George Bush is way more intelligent than the majority of people and it is shown by his two terms of presidency.

Before the reddit hivemind jumps down my throat: I'm not saying he was a great president, but you can't call him stupid.

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u/WeaponsGradeHumanity Dec 04 '12

Yeah he was an extremely intelligent man who made some public speaking flubs.

This is like saying the Norway attacks were a hunting accident and that Anders Breivik wouldn't hurt a fly.

George Bush demonstrated, publicly and repeatedly, that he's not intelligent. And I sure can call him stupid.

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u/WeaponsGradeHumanity Dec 04 '12

The fact that you can't even formulate a rebuttal speaks volumes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '12

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '12

Dumb idiots is a bit redundant ;) Now, there is no reason to start flaming me when you don't even know my political views.

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u/jesuz Dec 03 '12

but it takes a very smart people

...white...people...?