• In 1965, Romney graduated with honors from the Cranbrook
School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
 
• He then joined Brigham Young University where he
graduated in 1971 as valedictorian, earning his Bachelor of Arts
degree summa cum laude in English.
 
• His next stop was Stanford University where he studied
for two quarters and later served for thirty months in France as
a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.
 
• In 1975, Romney graduated from a prestigious joint Juris
Doctor / Master of Business Administration program coordinated
between Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.
 
• Romney graduated cum laude from the Harvard Law School
and was named a Baker Scholar for graduating in the top five
percent of his business school class.
 
• After completing his joint degree in law and business at
Harvard University, Romney remained in Massachusetts and began
his career as a businessman in Boston Consulting Group.
 
• Like his father, Romney is credited with saving the
management consulting company, Bain & Company from a financial
collapse. He took over as chief executive officer in 1990 and
restructured the firm's employee stock-ownership plan,
real-estate deals and bank loans, while increasing fiscal
transparency.
 
• In 1998, Romney left Bain Capital to serve as the
President and CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games
Organizing Committee.
 
• Romney later moved to Utah and worked his magic on the
2002 Winter Olympics, positioning himself to run for the position
of Governor of Massachusetts as a results-oriented pragmatist.
		

?• Obama attended Franciscus Assisi Roman Catholic Primary
School in Jakarta, Indonesia, from kindergarten  through the 3rd
grade.  He was registered on January 1, 1968, under the name
Barry Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen whose religion was listed as
Islam.

• Israella Pareira ?Iis? Darmawan, 63, Senator Obama's
kindergarten teacher, remembers him as an exceptionally tall and
curly haired child who quickly picked up the local language and
had sharp math skills. He wrote an essay titled, 'I Want To
Become President,' the teacher said."

• His third grade teacher: Fermina Katarina Sinaga "asked
her class to write an essay titled 'My dream: What I want to be
in the future.' Senator Obama wrote 'I want to be a President,'
she said."

• Obama also attended Sekolah Dasar Nasional Menteng No. 1
(Basuki school), in Jakarta, Indonesia, 4th grade and Punahou
School in Hawaii from the 5th grade to the 12th grade;

• Soon after high school, Barack Obama studied at
Occidental College, Los Angeles for two years but in 1981, he
transferred to Columbia University in New York City to major in
Political Science with specialization in International Relations.
The topic for his thesis was 'Soviet Nuclear Disarmament'.
 
• It was in 1983 that Obama graduated with a B.A from
Columbia and then he joined the Business International
Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group.
 
• In 1988, Obama attended a three-year program at Harvard
Law School stating his point of view that a degree in law is the
best vehicle to facilitate better community organization and
activism.
 
• Based on his grades and a writing competition, Obama got
selected as the Editor of the Harvard Law Review by the end of
his first year at Harvard and was elected President of the Law
Review in the second year.
 
• Obama peers, who gave their votes to make him the first
black president of the Harvard Law Review, say that he was a
natural leader, an impressive student and a nice guy.
 
• During his law school years, Obama also worked as an
associate with Sidley & Austin and Hopkins & Sutter law firms.
 
• His enterprising nature urged him to take a national
training course on Alinsky methods of organizing.
 
• In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard with a J.D. magna
cum laude and taught constitutional law at the University of
Chicago Law School for twelve years. The courses he taught
include equal protection areas of constitutional law, voting
rights, racism and law.

• When asked about his best and worst grades or subjects
in school, Obama replied, "graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
Law and a D in 8th grade French".