This lengthy human-interest story about Jill Stein in the Boston Globe reveals that she is almost certainly the best-educated person running for President this year. It says she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, that she graduated from Harvard magna cum laude, and then graduated from Harvard Medical School.
The article’s title is misleading.
She did not graduate from Harvard Law School.
The story did not comment on the quality of her education.
Jim is right — Dr. Stein graduated from Harvard Medical, not Harvard Law.
OTOH, one can certainly dispute or discuss what quality of education means and whose was best, but the article does say this: “Anyone who knows Stein only by the caricature would be surprised to learn that she may have the most impressive educational pedigree of anyone running for president.”
thank you both. I just fixed it.
As a member of Phi Beta Kappa, I have to point out this, from our organization’s website: “Only about 10 percent of the nation’s institutions of higher learning have Phi Beta Kappa chapters. And only about 10 percent of the arts and sciences graduates of these distinguished institutions are invited to join The Phi Beta Kappa Society for a lifetime membership which makes the invitation process one of the most selective in the nation.”
So if you go to one of the 90% of colleges that don’t have Phi Beta Kappa chapters, you can never make Phi Beta Kappa. If you are studying in a program other than the liberal arts and sciences, you are not eligible. Thus, whatever grades a Wharton graduate like Donald Trump got, no one who’s a business major can make Phi Beta Kappa; you’d have to be in a liberal arts or sciences major at the University of Pennsylvania, but not Wharton.
I was told they look at your transcripts and check out that you’ve taken a broad measure of courses in the sciences, the humanities, the social sciences and other subjects. Phi Beta Kappa lists the criteria for membership here: https://www.pbk.org/web/PBK_Member/Membership/Stipulations.aspx