I can’t understand why Malia’s academic credentials would even be questioned. Her entire family values education, she attended high quality elite private schools in Chicago and DC, she’s had a life full of enriching experiences, and she seems very centered. She’s the perfect HS graduate heading for a top college.
hmmm because lots of kids have all that (minus a hot shot dad) and some but still don’t have options like her … consider how many seemingly perfect candidates can’t make it to one Ivy, let alone all 8
Well, then, you should have run for President. Sheesh.
99.9999999999% of people who get into the Ivy league schools (actually, most years it’s 100%) are not the children of major world leaders.
This is a non-issue and a non-story.
@musicprnt #198: At this point I’m just going to say “gross overgeneralizations” and move on.
Are you saying Malia was accepted at all 8? Where did you see that?
^ She didn’t apply to all 8 as far as I know. Wasn’t her list shared here awhile back?
Here are the schools she visited:
The article was from last October, so we know where she was looking, not where she ended up applying.
People comment on seeing nasty, racist comments about this on social media or elsewhere: I’m happy to say I haven’t seen any. Apparently I am FB friends with only the right people. And, thank doG, I don’t do Twitter or Instagram or any of those other things.
I read that Fox online removed the comments section to the Malia/Harvard story. The comments had become too horrible even for Fox. Wow.
None of my Facebook friends even posted anything about Malia’s college choice, so no nasty comments there, either. I think people behave a tad bit better when they can’t hide behind the anonymity of a message board or comments section of an online news service. That’s where I saw the bad stuff.
@teriwtt 99% of the country is not obsessed with this matter either. It’s largely limited to those who love to denigrate the achievements of others. Most people say “good for her”.
I also think it is simply fatuous to believe that any admissions committee–or employer for that matter—will not notice that someone is the child of a current or former President, or lives at the White House! Does that get them a second look, probably. Am I bothered, no.
Cool address, eh? 
“So far, Malia has toured six of the eight Ivies — Brown, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale — as well as Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley. She has also visited New York University, Tufts, Barnard and Wesleyan.”
Looks like a lot of the lists of colleges toured in every thread on CC about college tours.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/malia-obama-harvard-first-children-history-213878
Interesting article in Politico about the history of president’s kids at Harvard. I wonder what happened to all the intelligent daughters of presidents in those times, as these are all stories of sons? I can’t help but think that some daughters might have made more of the opportunity than their brothers did.
Well, Harvard wasn’t coed until 1977(!)—women taking classes there were students of and got their degrees from Radcliffe, not Harvard. It’s kind of parallel to what Barnard and Columbia have going now (and which Harvard and Radcliffe had going on from 1977 to 1999, if I have the years right).
I know… but I was still wondering how many of their daughters got to go to any college.
Radcliffe graduates got Harvard diplomas starting in 1963.
Radcliffe from 1977-1999 was not like Barnard is now; housing, admissions, and academics for undergraduates were completely integrated. The distinction was in name only during that era. Barnard, then and now, has its own housing, admissions, and classes within the coed umbrella of Columbia.
Just had to pull this thread up and say that I have thought a few times the last couple of months and definitely the last couple of weeks that taking the gap year was such a great decision - so many monumental occasions with their term ending up that must be very rewarding, touching, and memorable for her to experience. And she didn’t have to miss the Chicago speech like her school-going sister!!
It’s wonderful that she has been able to take in all the accolades of her parents and so many good people like the Bidens in their daily life.