Supposedly, magna at HLS is limited to graduates with grades in the Top 10%, and grades are based on anonymous tests. So charm would get Obama nowhere.
If Obama's HLS grades, however, were in the Top 10%, he would wear them, as he can't wear his BC, on his forehead. The MSM and Obama would drum into us his class rank and GPA. If he was smart enough to graduate Magna at Harvard, so too would he have top LSAT's, which would be added to his lore.
The Magna, therefore, must not have involved grades, but rather was awarded by the faculty who otherwise faced the prospect of the baton-wielding President of the Harvard Law Review graduating without Honors, which would scream AA, and undermine the credibility of HLS and the HLR. Better to throw in the Magna, and everyone looks a lot better.
The Magna, therefore, must not have involved grades, but rather was awarded by the faculty who otherwise faced the prospect of the baton-wielding President of the Harvard Law Review graduating without Honors, which would scream AA, and undermine the credibility of HLS and the HLR. Better to throw in the Magna, and everyone looks a lot better.”
I like this, especially considering that two of the faculty were cleared of plagiarism charges themselves by a panel that included than Kagan & Sommers. On the other hand, who has checked out his magna status? Or is that another one of those pesky questions gentlemen simply don’t ask?