Leaving aside the fact that Obama, who went on to graduate Harvard Law magna cum laude, seems like he was probably a very good student, Mr. Trump might need a refresher course in how unqualified people actually do manage to get into the prestigious Ivy League Universities .
Let us take, as an example, the story of a student so obviously unqualified, so transparently unworthy, that a book was written about what his admittance into Harvard said about the sorry behavior of supposedly elite colleges.
That studentthat dull, below-average student who somehow made his way into Harvardwas Donald Trumps son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Kushners father, real estate developer Charles Kushner, bought Jared his Harvard acceptance. It cost him $2.5 million. (Kushner later went to jail for tax evasion and witness tampering, so it was also, technically, dirty money that bought Trumps daughters husbands entry into the Ivy League.)
Wall Street Journal education writer Daniel Goldens book The Price of Admission explores the Kushner donation at length. An official at Kushners (expensive, private) high school told the author: There was no way anybody in . . . the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard. His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought, for sure, there was no way this was going to happen.
But it did.
And that is how things actually work at elite schools.