Tom Bennet Retires.

[deanws]

So Tom Bennett retired huh?

What a month! TB retires and Burke moves into his dorm at Perdue...

About 2 weeks ago...Patsy was with him so her being at "death's door" must be within that time frame. She was very well dressed, but looked very ill and had a golfball sized lump on the side of her neck...

Rickamorti/pope posted about this at Purg...here is his/her synopsis.


I about fell out of my chair when they said he only maintained a 2.88 GPA. I would have thought it would have been higher than that to get into Perdue...apparently their standards have slipped considerably.

I was thinking the same thing. Down here in Texas, that wouldn't get you into any of our better Universities. I see money can buy you admission into Purdue. I guess they are not "into" preserving the quality of their education.

 

[deanws]

I don't think you were hard on Burke....a 2.88 is kind of low to get into Purdue. Maybe his SAT scores were high enough to compensate for his low gpa.

I guess Patsy's cancer has metastisized....what horrible experiences she's gone through since the death of JonBenet. Even so, my belief is that it was she who was responsible for her daughters death and it will never waiver.

This is my humble opinion only.

That still wouldn't get him into Purdue...if he was the normal(without money) student. Yes, universities like to see a great sat/act score, but they would see him as a lazy student if his sat was high with that LOW gpa. Money talks...the only way he would have gotten in with that low class standing.

 

[bensmom98]

That still wouldn't get him into Purdue...if he was the normal(without money) student. Yes, universities like to see a great sat/act score, but they would see him as a lazy student if his sat was high with that LOW gpa. Money talks...the only way he would have gotten in with that low class standing.

I thought the Ramsey's are broke???

 

[Zman]

Tipper, if the BTK investigators or the Green River investigators, had one tenth of the evidence the Boulder D.A. has against the Ramseys, their suspects would have been arrested within a few days.

The evidence is there. They just won't do anything.

Keenan, if she has a decent bone in her body, by now should be mortified that she even thought that Santa Bill did the crime.

In once sense you are right. There is no evidence left to investigate as far as the "Intruder" goes. Because there was no intruder. Can't investigate something that does not exist.

What evidence Tricia?
They have none. Not one shred of decent hard evidence exists against the R's.
And you know it.

Also I don't think a 2.88 GPA is low people. Thats just short of and a and well into b+ range. I'm sure there are students with lower GPA's in Purdue. Its not Stanford afterall.

 

[Tricia]

What evidence Tricia?
They have none. Not one shred of decent hard evidence exists against the R's.
And you know it.

You're kidding right?

 

[deanws]

I thought the Ramsey's are broke???

No, they SAY they are broke. It is all relevant. They probably do FEEL they are broke comparing their current wealth to their prior wealth. One thing is for sure.....no scholarships for Burke with that GPA. :doh: Maybe he will find the time to study more...without the pressure of whatever goes on in that household.

 

[deanws]

What evidence Tricia?
They have none. Not one shred of decent hard evidence exists against the R's.
And you know it.

Also I don't think a 2.88 GPA is low people. Thats just short of and a and well into b+ range. I'm sure there are students with lower GPA's in Purdue. Its not Stanford afterall.

No...it is not. An A is a 4.0 ...... B is a 3.0 .......C is a 2.0

Most senior schools are based on a 5.0 weighted system, making the 2.88 even WORSE than the above explanation. So yes....that is quite low for a college bound student.

 

[tipper]

No...it is not. An A is a 4.0 ...... B is a 3.0 .......C is a 2.0

Most senior schools are based on a 5.0 weighted system, making the 2.88 even WORSE than the above explanation. So yes....that is quite low for a college bound student.

Has anyone read the article? It has been said on another forum that the 2.88 refers to the GPA of the whole junior class.

 

[deanws]

Has anyone read the article? It has been said on another forum that the 2.88 refers to the GPA of the whole junior class.

They rank a class...they don't do a whole class gpa. That has no purpose. It doesn't work that way. The better universities usually want the first 5%. The "state supported" colleges in Texas are required to take the top 10% if the student's SAT/ACT test scores are acceptable. Either way you look at it....a 2.88 is really low. Why it is so low....of course we don't know. He will either sink or swim this first year. I do hope he swims.:blowkiss:

 

[tipper]

They rank a class...they don't do a whole class gpa. That has no purpose. It doesn't work that way. The better universities usually want the first 5%. The "state supported" colleges in Texas are required to take the top 10% if the student's SAT/ACT test scores are acceptable. Either way you look at it....a 2.88 is really low. Why it is so low....of course we don't know. He will either sink or swim this first year. I do hope he swims.:blowkiss:

Unless it was done as just part of miscellaneous yearbook info. This is the quote I was talking about:

Wombat at FFJ: "RE: Burke - the article says he helped maintain the junior classes GPA of 2.88. Since he's going to Purdue, I'm guessing his actual GPA is in the high 3's. Good for him. Maybe he's going to be an engineer like Dad. " (emphasis mine)

 

[deanws]

Unless it was done as just part of miscellaneous yearbook info. This is the quote I was talking about:

Wombat at FFJ: "RE: Burke - the article says he helped maintain the junior classes GPA of 2.88. Since he's going to Purdue, I'm guessing his actual GPA is in the high 3's. Good for him. Maybe he's going to be an engineer like Dad. " (emphasis mine)

I see that. I am not sure why they would print that, as it is certainly nothing to brag about. :twocents: Maybe they printed a caption under each child's name...and this is what they came up with. I don't know. As I said, I wish him well. I just know Rice (Houston) would not take him with that average. Neither would Texas A&M nor University of Texas. And according to the site of Purdue University, they want their students to complete the honors program to be considered. Even then, it states that acceptance is not guaranteed. In the senior school my children attended, the honors program only was open to the top 10% of the class. So, either way....he doesn't qualify. 2.88...a b- is not in the top 10%.

 

[narlacat]

QUOTE>> Either way you look at it....a 2.88 is really low. Why it is so low....of course we don't know.<<

Well, just a stab in the dark, but I'd say it's so low because when he was 9 years old his 6 year old sister died under tragic circumstances and life as he knew it changed forever. As Capps said in an earlier post QUOTE>> It can't have been easy to concentrate on his lessons all the time.<<
I think that's an understatement.
I'm amazed he got through primary school, let alone get accepted into a university. God knows, if he did accidently kill his little sister, he has paid for it over and over. I truly believe what happened to JonBenet started out as an accident.

 

[Zman]

No...it is not. An A is a 4.0 ...... B is a 3.0 .......C is a 2.0

Most senior schools are based on a 5.0 weighted system, making the 2.88 even WORSE than the above explanation. So yes....that is quite low for a college bound student.

Sorry I sure could be wrong about grades they are tricky things. I was under the notion that a 4.0 was A+ and that 3.5 was an A. Even then I guess a 2.8 is low. Maybe JR did pull a couple of strings to get him in but I'm sure he's not the first one to do that.

I just did some work on a GPA calculator and it does seem that one bad grade can drag down an average pretty far. Do colleges take that into concideration at all? Like A, B+, D would be a 2.8.

 

[aussiesheila]

After all McSanta had his own dirty little secrets and failed to mention a potentially relevant event or two.

Please Tipper, can you give details?

 

[tipper]

Please Tipper, can you give details?

His extensive collection, his daughter's kidnapping and her friend's rape, his son's criminal record, his wife's play about a child's murder in a basement (based on the Sylvia Likens case).

 

[capps]

There is a picture of Burke in the Globe. He's all grown up now.

He looks so different from the picture we're accustomed to looking at (the Christmas '96 pic),that it almost seems were talkng about a different person.

Weird somehow.

 

[tipper]

A glimmer of hope.

According to Candy at Newsleuths Jim Kolar is the new Ramsey investigator (what an oxymoron. Ramsey investigator) in the D.A's office.

He is a big fan of Steve Thomas'.

"

http://www.forstevethomas.com/supportletters.htm

Wonder if he still is? That comment appears to have been made when ST resigned. Kolar certainly wasn't a fan of Eller's.

 

[deanws]

Sorry I sure could be wrong about grades they are tricky things. I was under the notion that a 4.0 was A+ and that 3.5 was an A. Even then I guess a 2.8 is low. Maybe JR did pull a couple of strings to get him in but I'm sure he's not the first one to do that.

I just did some work on a GPA calculator and it does seem that one bad grade can drag down an average pretty far. Do colleges take that into concideration at all? Like A, B+, D would be a 2.8.

It depends on the course of study they wish to pursue, and the individual university. Yes, one bad grade or semester can ruin your gpa and class standing. I think it was an accident also. I wish they would come clean about it. If Burke did have anything to do with it, I believe it will come out eventually. I think he did.

 

[aussiesheila]

Keenan, if she has a decent bone in her body, by now should be mortified that she even thought that Santa Bill did the crime.

Why should she?

 

[aussiesheila]

His extensive collection, his daughter's kidnapping and her friend's rape, his son's criminal record, his wife's play about a child's murder in a basement (based on the Sylvia Likens case).

Oh, so the Santa had a collection did he? Hmm that doesn't sound too good. You don't know if it was child do you? I trust you tipper, I don't think you post stuff that you don't have a reliable source for. I hope I'm right because I'm believing you.

I have read something about his daughter and her friend. I have always suspected that it had something to do with Santa. Something to do with his possibly having some link to a pedophile group.

I have always thought his wife's writing the play was her way of coping with her awareness that her husband was a pedophile and the kinds of thing he got up to.

I had no idea that his son had a criminal record. What sort of crimes was he convicted of?

You don't happen to know how far away from the Ramseys Santa lived do you? For some reason I had always believed he lived next door, but apparently that is not so.