Just because he went to an Ivy League college doesnt mean he is smart. For all we know his parents just paid for a degree while he partied like Kavanaugh.
He isn't like Kavanaugh:
He then studied history at
Stanford University, where his mother was an
alumna.
[18] Hawley graduated in 2002 with a
Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors and
Phi Beta Kappa membership.
[18][20] Hawley studied under professor
David M. Kennedy, who later contributed the foreword to a book Hawley wrote,
Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness.
[21] Kennedy said Hawley stood out in a school "which is overstuffed with overachieving and very talented young people,"
[19] and has described Hawley as "arguably the most gifted student I taught in 50 years."
[18]
After spending ten months in
London as a post graduate intern at
St Paul's School from 2002 to 2003,
[15][22] Hawley returned to the U.S. to attend
Yale Law School, graduating in 2006 with a
Juris Doctor degree.
[17][18][21] The Kansas City Star reported that Hawley's classmates saw him as "politically ambitious and a deeply religious conservative."
[19] While at Yale, Hawley was an editor of the
Yale Law Journal and served as president of the school's
Federalist Society chapter.
[21]
He was also valedictorian at his high school which is one of the best private schools in the KC area.