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Sir;...You conclusions are full of air...Just because a person does not have the scores going into law school does not mean they don't deserve all the honors that follow their hard work and dedication... You make an amazing leap for a man of your advanced years, and you honestly say more about your failing abilities, and prejudice, than about her... Get it checked old man... Demon Alzheimers is sneaking up on you, and is turning your mighty brain to morter... Enjoy your final days before you make yourself totally irrelevant...Consider sir; that some people only need a foot in the door to reach the ladder of success...We will never know how many excel at crime who might otherwise excel at law, or medicine, or business if only those paths were open to them... The principals of law are are not so opaque that they cannot be grasped... The difficulty lies more in the moral requirments, and in the desires of the attorneys, like any other association, to limit the competition, and to keep the law as a monopoly... Who cares that she could not be understood going in... The law is usually inscrutable to common sense any way...It has its own logic as divorced from reality as religion...And yet it takes intelligence to be able to see through law to the goal beyond it... Law is not the thing it itself...It is not the goal... It does not matter how much law we have if none of it serves our purpose, which has always been survival... Now, some people are not intelligent enough for the law... They may be smart enough to get a licences to practice law...That licences is the beginning and end for some...The intelligence to do something valuable with the law is beyond them... What your presumptions suggest is that Mrs. Sotomayor is what she always was, and mine is, that with intelligence -anyone has the capacity to change, to learn, and to grow...Does it matter that she began with baby books, and Grammars...Lincoln began so... Think of how many in life begin with a baby book, of proverbs, adventures, challenges, disasters, infidelities, improbabilities, and miracles; and think of how few in life progress beyond this good book even while most of it is over two thousand years old, and molded to a certain form... Personal growth is simply beyond most people...They find all that seems to work for them, and fear all who challenge their beliefs...So do not fear that in reading about the little red hen, or chicken little that Mrs. Sotomayor was missing some lessons essential to life at the same time... From personal experience I can tell you that many make much of little while others make little of much... Some people born with every advantage die like Dionysius, forgotten and in rags... Just make sure that ain't you; Mr. B... Thanks....Sweeney