HAS THERE ever been a bigger challenge to the American college admissions process than George Bush? Selecting the nation’s future leaders, admissions committees at elite colleges insist that students have nearly flawless grades. Bush didn’t. They require stratospheric SAT scores. Bush’s were good but not great. The committees want to see intellectual curiosity and wide experience with different cultures. Bush has never demonstrated much of the former and never acquired much of the latter.
Yet over the past four months, Bush has demonstrated that he possesses excellent judgment, and some sort of mental faculty that college admissions committees not only don’t reward, they don’t even seem to be aware of.
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