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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 974767" data-attributes="member: 12952">[h=1]Exclusive: The Vetting - Did Obama Have Lower SAT Scores Than George W. Bush?[/h][h=2]Breitbart News has established that Obama&#039;s grades and Scholastic&nbsp; Aptitude Test (SAT) scores may have been even lower than those of his&nbsp; supposedly less capable predecessor, George W. Bush.[/h]Breitbart News has learned that the transfer class that entered Columbia&nbsp; College in the fall of 1981 with Obama was one of the worst in recent&nbsp; memory, according to Columbia officials at the time. Among accepted transfer students, the average combined math and&nbsp; verbal score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is a 1,100 and their&nbsp; grade-point average at their former schools is about 3.0, Boatti said.
 The freshman class at the College had a combined SAT score more than 100 points higher.
Only 450 students applied to transfer to Columbia in 1981 and sixty-seven were admitted.
If Obama’s SAT scores were near the average of the transfer students&nbsp; entering Columbia in the fall of 1981, he would have scored&nbsp; significantly lower than George W. Bush, whose combined math and verbal&nbsp; scores were 1206 out of a possible 1600 points (as revealed by the New Yorker in 1999).

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[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 974767, member: 12952"] [h=1]Exclusive: The Vetting - Did Obama Have Lower SAT Scores Than George W. Bush?[/h] [h=2]Breitbart News has established that Obama's grades and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores may have been even lower than those of his supposedly less capable predecessor, George W. Bush.[/h]Breitbart News has learned that the transfer class that entered Columbia College in the fall of 1981 with Obama was one of the worst in recent memory, according to Columbia officials at the time. [INDENT] Among accepted transfer students, the average combined math and verbal score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is a 1,100 and their grade-point average at their former schools is about 3.0, Boatti said. The freshman class at the College had a combined SAT score more than 100 points higher. Only 450 students applied to transfer to Columbia in 1981 and sixty-seven were admitted. If Obama’s SAT scores were near the average of the transfer students entering Columbia in the fall of 1981, he would have scored significantly lower than George W. Bush, whose combined math and verbal scores were 1206 out of a possible 1600 points (as revealed by the [I]New Yorker[/I] in 1999). [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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