Why has Jeb Bush's college graduation year been omitted by the media for at least 30 years now?

[anobserver2]

72. I feel the same way for two reasons

First of all, no one's reply on this thread mentions the fact that REAL geniuses - a Bill Gates let's say -- ever did what the media in these 9 links claims Jeb Bush did: "squeeze" a 4-year degree into "2" or "2-1'2" or "less than 3" years.

Bill Gates and others who are real geniuses DROPPED OUT of college. Why? Because of the following:

There are two broad systems on which universities are now operating on: (1) time-based (the Carnegie unit, which I previously mentioned on this thread but no one picked up on), and (2) competency-based (which is what the WSJ article I linked to is all about).

In a time-based system, it doesn't matter if you are Bill Gates -- a 4-year degree can still take you: 4 years to complete, because
courses are not offered in the summer, you have no AP credits, whatever.

You have to spend the time. So, a Bill Gates no longer wants to spend the time; he decides he is wasting his time by staying at college for a degree, so, he drops out.

But in a different system - a competency-based system -- it matters greatly if you are a Bill Gates, because then you just keep taking tests and test out of courses.

So, you, the new Bill Gates in a competency based college program -- not a time-measured based program -- can test out. You don't need to drop out.

You can "race through" or "blaze through" or whatever in "2" or "2-1/2" or "less than 3" years.


But Bill Gates' college program was not on that system - nor was Jeb Bush's college program.

So, Bill Gates dropped out.

Yet, according to these 9 media links I posted: the media wants to convince me that Jeb Bush is smarter than a Bill Gates.
because Jeb Bush, also on a time-based system in college, somehow "beat" the system -- and is smarter than Bill Gates.

Jeb Bush is not smarter than Bill Gates is my belief.

The only way Jeb Bush could have gotten out earlier than 4 years is if he had a whole lot of AP credits or transferred college credits.
He had no AP classes is what it sounds like from that Boston Globe article. And he went to no other college.

And since UT is on the Carnegie time-based system, Jeb Bush is not blazing or racing through; he has to spend 4 years to earn this degree -- or drop out. Just as Bill Gates eventually decided to do.

There is a lot that can be discussed with this matter. But recognizing that a Bill Gates drops out of a time-based system in college, while a Jeb Bush can somehow "squeeze" that 4-year degree into "2" years, is an issue never mentioned in the media.

It should be discussed at length.