Is Harvard An Embarassment? Part II: Kyle Kashuv And David Hogg

[Wingnut]

Let me get this right. Kyle Kashuv was second in his class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with a 1550 SAT score and acceptance at Harvard --fairly typical credentials for students at America's oldest university. David Hogg, attending the same high school and a classmate of Kashuv, was a dramatically weaker student grade-wise, with, according to news reports, a much less impressive 1270 SAT score, over one standard deviation below the average SAT score of those accepted at Harvard. While a good, well above average high school student, Hogg's academic credentials strike me as typical of a Floridian who might attend Florida State University or the flagship University of Florida--but definitely not Harvard. Hogg also is a progressive student who demanded gun control in the aftermath of the Douglas high school shooting tragedy and became a liberal media darling, while Kashuv is a conservative who after the Parkland shooting advocated for school safety measures (subsequently adopted by Congress), but said banning guns was not the answer. What is the bottom line? Hogg will be going to Harvard this fall, but Kashuv will not, his admission rescinded. It seems like having the correct (politically left) political views helps get into Harvard while having conservative views clearly is detrimental.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2019/06/19/is-harvard-an-embarassment-part-ii-kyle-kashuv-and-david-hogg/

[sneakypete]

No. The arrogant and the clueless can not be embarrassed. They CAN be pissed off and sic their servants on you,though.

[jmyrlefuller]

Fuller's Rule of Life, Rule #4: Never trust anyone, or anything, from Harvard. (Ted Cruz being a partial exception...even then, though, trust but verify.)

[jmyrlefuller]

He used the N word a dozen times. He also used some anti-semitic expressions, perplexing since Kashuv himself is Jewish.

Which should say everything anyone needs to know about how serious he was about the language he was using.

God help us if every single private joke we ever tell gets used against us to destroy our future.