Yes, she is clearly going to Harvard. A picture is worth a thousand words.
@FallGirl - I agree with you - the Harvard T-shirt is a red herring. My guess is that she is going to Stanford.
I would think it would be more important to Malia to have a genuine moment with her classmates, all sharing the excitement of their college choice, than to throw off the press by wearing a misleading shirt.
Agree with @fendrock. Having driven a group of seniors home from a sporting event and listening to them talk about what they should wear to their own high school’s “college swag day,” there is authentic excitement about it after the long haul. I also don’t see the point of throwing off the press, though I guess it could be poking fun at everyone’s obsession with college in general and where she is going in particular
Harvard after a gap year, according to ABC News.
Sounds like a great, well-thought plan!
Best of luck to Malia!
Good for her! I think it’s a fantastic that she is taking a gap year. There will be a lot less hubbub when she starts at H with her dad not President anymore.
Exciting to see this. Wishing her the very, very best.
My mind is running away with me on all the fabulous opportunities for her gap year, whether they are here in the US or abroad. What a wonderful adventure she will have!
I wanna take a gap year too!!
Congrats to Malia on an excellent choice and I think this will bring positive attention to the idea of a gap year.
But, somehow this quote from the First Lady doesn’t ring true. (From today’s Washington Post).
“The one thing I’ve been telling my daughters is that I don’t want them to choose a name,” Michelle Obama told the editors of Seventeen magazine in an article published in April. “I don’t want them to think, ‘Oh I should go to these top schools.’ We live in a country where there are thousands of amazing universities. So, the question is: What’s going to work for you?”
She’s in a unique situation. I think she almost had to go to an HYP because of their familiarity with dealing with celebrity.
Good points, everyone. Glad to read the official confirmation, although I thought they would wait until tomorrow to announce!
It’s a great choice - there is so much going on in Cambridge that it seems to me to be of of the few places she’ll be able to blend in without too much hubbub.
I don’t know why the quote from Michelle doesn’t ring true. I think it’s very sound advice and Michelle has always come across to me as a very down to earth person.
I’m glad she made her decision. I hope the press and public can leave her alone now.
“The one thing I’ve been telling my daughters is that I don’t want them to choose a name,” Michelle Obama told the editors of Seventeen magazine in an article published in April. “I don’t want them to think, ‘Oh I should go to these top schools.’ We live in a country where there are thousands of amazing universities. So, the question is: What’s going to work for you?”
Maybe this is where Malia wanted to go and H works for her- even though her parents Impressed upon her to not think she must go to a top school.
“Leave her alone?”
Do you consider friendly speculation a form of harassment?
If she’s indeed interested in film and film production, Harvard has huge connections to the industry – lots of grads end up in positions of creative power in LA and NY.
Wishing her the best… and already missing her family living in the White House…