Neither John Kerry, Nor George Bush Were Great Students

It was not that important at the time of the last presidential race and is obviously of less important now, but it is amusing after all the fuss that was made about the difference between Kerry and Bush in college at Yale, Kerry’s grades for Yale were finally released and they are pretty much the same as Bush’s. From The Boston Globe :

During last year’s presidential campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex, while George W. Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences.

But newly released records show that Bush and Kerry had a virtually identical grade average at Yale University four decades ago.

In 1999, The New Yorker published a transcript indicating that Bush had received a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average under a non-numerical rating system during his senior year.

Kerry, who graduated two years before Bush, got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school. He received four D’s in his freshman year out of 10 courses, but improved his average in later years.

Bush on the other hand did seem to have the better photographer. Ouch John, you should have burned that one.