Omg The October Surprise

OK, thanks for the great explanation.

I quickly looked up what the standards are today for law review selction at Harvard
http://www.harvardlawreview.org/membership.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_law_review

Using a competitive process that takes into account first-year grades, an editing exercise, and a written commentary on a court decision, The Harvard Law Review selects between 41 and 43 editors annually from the second-year Law School class, which numbers 560.
Two editors from each of first-year class's seven sections (fourteen in all) are selected half by their first year grades and half by their scores on the writing competition. Another twenty are selected solely on their scores on the writing competition. The other seven to nine are selected by a discretionary committee, either to fulfill the review's race-based affirmative action program, to select students who just missed the cut by either of the other two processes, or by some other criteria as the committee sees fit.
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So still it seems like people may get on in spite of grades... it's not a 100% meritocracy. And besides, grading of essays is inherently subjective; thus making law school grades subjective.
 
[quote name='BigT']So still it seems like people may get on in spite of grades... it's not a 100% meritocracy. And besides, grading of essays is inherently subjective; thus making law school grades subjective.[/QUOTE]
I would agree in a general sense, but most law schools use blind grading (the professor does not know who they are grading). Also, legal research and writing is a skill totally different from what one would consider typical "writing" skills. As opposed to an English paper where you can get X answers from X people that could all be considered excellent, great legal research papers that address the same legal issue look strikingly similar. Deviation bears out an analysis that is missing critical elements. Even the lay person can see the difference between a good, bad, and great paper.

Inasmuch, the grading of legal research writing is about as objective as writing can possibly be.
[quote name='BigT']So still it seems like people may get on in spite of grades... it's not a 100% meritocracy.[/QUOTE]
As alluded to in your quote, the write on is also used to fill gaps in the qualitative ability of the grade ons. I've never seen one explicitly support affirmative action (though as a private institution, they have a free hand), but at the state school I'm using as an example, the committee (made up of 3rd year students) selects based on the ability of the write on to support the mission of the review, which would explicitly support the idea of a meritocracy.

It's all kind of moot though, because Obama didn't write on.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Xevious
If I ever own a boat...I'm going to name it the "November Surprise"
[quote name='billyrox']that's a really nice name actually[/quote]

You can come to my boat and we can dress up like sea captains from those old Spice commercials and have a toast with our bevy of swanky girls by our side. We will all have a good laugh and be merry and enjoy our jolly good adventure.
 
So, is Obama an illiterate token affirmative action case, or was he really smart?

And have we decided whether he's an actual American citizen or not yet?

And did he, in fact, help plant the bombs that the Weather Underground layed?

Rumors have it that he was the one who coerced Pontius Pilate to decide to crucify Jesus Christ instead of give him a 9-month suspended sentence.

These are legitimate questions that we demand answers to.
 
[quote name='Xevious']Quote:
Originally Posted by Xevious
If I ever own a boat...I'm going to name it the "November Surprise"


You can come to my boat and we can dress up like sea captains from those old Spice commercials and have a toast with our bevy of swanky girls by our side. We will all have a good laugh and be merry and enjoy our jolly good adventure.[/quote]

sounds good to me.


What kind of women do pirates prefer?
"CougARRRs!!!"
 
[quote name='BigT'] Plus, higher taxes won't be fun...[/quote]

Make at least 250k? Probably not if you're on CAG.

In that case, you're actually getting a decent tax cut. Facts suck, don't they?
 
[quote name='BigT']If he were a black man named Chris Jackson and didn't dress up as a Somali Warlord, I doubt that anyone would bring up that he may be Muslim. It's common sense: if I was running airport security and someone named Barack Hussein Obama came through I'd sure as hell screen him to a greater degree than Chris Jackson.
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This is such a bigoted statement that I had to quote it for prosperity. I could understand if he changed his name like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or Muhammed Ali and that's even a stretch. Barack Hussein Obama is the name his mother gave him. Blame her. Not him.

What about the people that run around named Rain, Leaf, or Dewdrop? Do you snicker and call them hippies? No. Their parents were.

What's going to happen in 20 years when DeMario Jones runs for President. Are you going to snicker and say that we should pat him down for drugs because ,hell, with a name like that he must be dealing something.

Are you going to tell Shaniqua that she should go back to the beauty salon and step away from voting booths?
 
[quote name='nathansu']Make at least 250k? Probably not if you're on CAG.

In that case, you're actually getting a decent tax cut. Facts suck, don't they?[/quote]

Is it still 250K. Didn't Biden say 150K. Plus, I'm sure that figure applies to families...

As an individual, the cut off for a higher bracket will likely be around half of that. Plus since our country is so fucking broke, I'm sure it'll go down to about 80K/individual.
 
[quote name='BigT']Is it still 250K. Didn't Biden say 150K. Plus, I'm sure that figure applies to families...

As an individual, the cut off for a higher bracket will likely be around half of that. Plus since our country is so fucking broke, I'm sure it'll go down to about 80K/individual.[/quote]
RIIIIIIIGHT?:bomb: Do you even try to make sense anymore?
 
So because Joe Biden had a slip of the tongue, we're all going to pay higher taxes? Wow. You'd think you never made a mistake in your entire life, BigoT. I love how everyone conjectures that Obama's lying about taxes and we'll all pay higher taxes.

Why not just make up some outlandish shit like Obama's going to raise taxes for people that make under 20k a year. Or you could say that Obama's going to tax employer contributions to your insurance plan.
 
Obama did graduate magna cum laude.

From Harvard.

Harvard.

I know..Bush graduated from Yale...yadda yaddaa...Look up affirmative action for alumni..Because Bush didn't get in on his own, just look at his SAT score.
 
[quote name='HowStern']Obama did graduate magna cum laude.

From Harvard.

Harvard.

I know..Bush graduated from Yale...yadda yaddaa...Look up affirmative action for alumni..Because Bush didn't get in on his own, just look at his SAT score.[/quote]

i know.. Obama's incredibly intelligent... i can't believe people still question his academic achievements.
 
[quote name='depascal22']Because education is for suckers and elitists.[/quote]

why do people want someone like a "normal dumb joe" drinking buddy or hockey mom:roll: to become president...? i've never understood why the hell we want someone who is "everyday normal" like us even if they are ignorant as $hit?


dont we want someone smarter and more intelligent than us to govern? ....intelligence is a good thing
 
No. Because those people lord over us with their higher education and make us feel dumb.

It's also the same reason why smart ghetto kids don't go to college. They don't want to be seen as a sell-out.
 
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