Quote from bungrider:
This seems a bit unsubstantiated.
1) I have a friend who attended Air force, and did flight training, and god bless him, but he wasn't even close to being MIT material. He got rejected from every Ivy league and near-Ivy league school he applied to. MIT is a hell of alot more selective than most Ivies, not to mention the fact that you actually earn your degree at MIT.
Nor was my friend from a priveledged family, like some other losers I can think of. I don't want him to die in Iraq.
2) The average MIT student would have to basically be drunk all the time to get straight C's in HISTORY at Yale.
There was a kid in the news who got C's at community college and FAKED a transfer application to Yale and was accepted. He had a "high B average" at Yale in the humanities before being discovered and kicked out. If anyone has a link to the article, please post it (this was about 6 years ago).
I look at Dumya and see a guy I wouldn't even pay money to wash my car.
The fact that anyone thinks he's worth a bucket of piss just blows my mind.
Man, here you liberals go again. You simply do not know the facts. Look, let me give you some details. To get into flight school in the service you need to do one of two things. You either go through a service academy, which is much harder to get into then MIT bar none, or you go through ROTC. ROTC is a full ride scholarship where you basically go to any school that has an ROTC program once accepted. You take one or two ROTC classes each semester for four years. Once you have your degree, you go to OTC, which is Officer Training School. This lasts for about 12 weeks or so and its like basic training for officers. Upon completion of OTC you now go on to flight school which is a very intensive 12 month program. Upon completion of that, you go into a particular aircraft unit where you will learn to fly your speciality aircraft.
Now to get an ROTC scholarship, it's very very hard. Your high school GPA better be at least a 4.0 although they do say technically you need a 3.7 but a 4.0 is better. You need a 33 or 34 on your ACT's or a 1400 or higher on your SAT's. On top of that, in high school, you better have gotten all A's in every one of your math and science courses, no exceptions. Then to top it all off you better have lettered in at least two sports. You be better be in peak physical shape. And you still need other extra curricular activities on your resume.
Let me tell you why this is harder then MIT. To get into MIT, you need to grades and the test scores. A lot of guys have that. But how many of those pencil neck geeks can say they have lettered in two sports? How many of them are in peak physical shape? How many of them were involved in leadership activities outside of academics?
Then if that's not hard enough you better not be shorter then 5'6" or maybe it's 5'8". You better have perfect eye sight and zero medical problems. So once you have all those attributes, then, and only then, are you even CONSIDERED for flight training. I can assure you it is very very tough.
I would love to see Kerry make the cut. Actually, he wouldn't. Basically, your military pilots are studs to put it bluntly. They have the best grades, they are the best athletes, the most healthy, pass the psychological evaluations, and score in the 98th percentile on most college entrance exams. Like I said, show me your MIT graduates that can do all that. End of story.
