Why would Sasha Obama attend University of Michigan?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People who think Michigan is mediocre are honestly just ignorant.

People who think only Ivy are the only way are so strange. They raise their kids with that one goal. Not everyone like the straight white rich boys club. Malia isvemjoying it. Maybe Sasha wants some diversity and fun. Sidwell is a tough school. She deserves some normalcy.
Michigan is a great school. So are many other states schools including UMCP, UVA, Texas, UF, UNC, UC’s etc...

And people were surprised when Chelsea chose Stanford over Harvard and Yale

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just leave Sasha alone. It is no one's of our business where she goes to college.

It's ironic that this thread is discussing why on earth she would choose UMich over an Ivy ... Of course, if she were headed to an Ivy (or Stanford or U of Chicago or whatever) there'd be a heated discussion about whether she only got in because she is black and has influential parents.

She can't win.

Here we go, the heart of the matter

Side note, she looks absolutely gorgeous in this photo!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I entered Mich. in the mid-late 80s, it was ranked 8th in the country, even ahead of schools like Penn.

https://publicuniversityhonors.com/2017/09/13/u-s-news-rankings-for-57-leading-universities-1983-2007/

In the late 80s, US News changed their methodology and it dropped to the 20-25 range. That said, it’s still ranked very high in the London Times survey, which actually is based on peer rankings.

That’s just to say it once had/maybe still has a reputation of being one of the best schools in the country. It was also one of the best sports schools in both football and basketball back then, which might have helped bolster its popularity.

But also back then, schools like Tulane, UCLA, USC were not as high rated as they are today. It seems students (and perhaps faculty) are increasingly attracted to an urban experience rather than heading off to an idyllic college town for four years. Things change.

Sasha doesn’t have to go to a school to open doors. I can understand her wanting to be with people she trusts in an environment big enough that she can blend in.

The acceptance rate for in state applicants is 44.5 percent. The school takes about half of a class from out of state now. That’s why the overall acceptance rate is pretty low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who think Michigan is mediocre are honestly just ignorant.

People who think only Ivy are the only way are so strange. They raise their kids with that one goal. Not everyone like the straight white rich boys club. Malia isvemjoying it. Maybe Sasha wants some diversity and fun. Sidwell is a tough school. She deserves some normalcy.
Michigan is a great school. So are many other states schools including UMCP, UVA, Texas, UF, UNC, UC’s etc...

And people were surprised when Chelsea chose Stanford over Harvard and Yale

Not the same thing as going to...Michigan, which is a very good, but not great, institution of higher learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who think Michigan is mediocre are honestly just ignorant.

People who think only Ivy are the only way are so strange. They raise their kids with that one goal. Not everyone like the straight white rich boys club. Malia isvemjoying it. Maybe Sasha wants some diversity and fun. Sidwell is a tough school. She deserves some normalcy.
Michigan is a great school. So are many other states schools including UMCP, UVA, Texas, UF, UNC, UC’s etc...

And people were surprised when Chelsea chose Stanford over Harvard and Yale

Not the same thing as going to...Michigan, which is a very good, but not great, institution of higher learning.

That’s honestly BS.

[Anonymous]

Michigan is the 20th best university in the world. What mediocrity.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People who think Michigan is mediocre are honestly just ignorant.

People who think only Ivy are the only way are so strange. They raise their kids with that one goal. Not everyone like the straight white rich boys club. Malia isvemjoying it. Maybe Sasha wants some diversity and fun. Sidwell is a tough school. She deserves some normalcy.
Michigan is a great school. So are many other states schools including UMCP, UVA, Texas, UF, UNC, UC’s etc...

And people were surprised when Chelsea chose Stanford over Harvard and Yale

Not the same thing as going to...Michigan, which is a very good, but not great, institution of higher learning.

Are you kidding? Michigan is a “great” school, I would be so proud of my kid if they got in & went there.

[Anonymous]

"great" != public U undergrad

Only oblivious Tailgate State alums would ever say such a thing. It's a fine college, but it's huge, and tends to attract a very obnoxious out-of-state subset who want to party, do drugs and leave with an easy bachelors -- kids rejected from USC, Penn and Georgetown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she doesn't want to become as out-of-touch snobs as her parents living in their ultrarich Kalorama castle.

Ten bucks if she goes to Michigan she’ll end up in Kappa Kappa Gamma or Alpha Phi, & won’t mingle much with the middle class kids.

Ten bucks she doesn't.

I hope you’re right!

There is no way, no chance, absolutely no chance in hell that Sasha Obama would join these white girl sororities. That someone would suggest this is even more ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

I’ll bet presidential and former presidential kid college choices depend heavily on security issues.

Keeping kids safer on a newer rural or suburban campuses might be a lot easier than protecting kids on Ivy League campuses.

[Anonymous]

Maybe she isn't smart

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"great" != public U undergrad

Only oblivious Tailgate State alums would ever say such a thing. It's a fine college, but it's huge, and tends to attract a very obnoxious out-of-state subset who want to party, do drugs and leave with an easy bachelors -- kids rejected from USC, Penn and Georgetown.

Your comments are incredibly mean-spirited and offensive.

[Anonymous]

She would attend it because she wants to and can. Next question?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"great" != public U undergrad

Only oblivious Tailgate State alums would ever say such a thing. It's a fine college, but it's huge, and tends to attract a very obnoxious out-of-state subset who want to party, do drugs and leave with an easy bachelors -- kids rejected from USC, Penn and Georgetown.

Your comments are incredibly mean-spirited and offensive.

Only the truth, sweetie. You're free to google: U of Michigan sorority and fraternity issues, uber attack kid, and trashed ski resorts and report back with the common denominator in all of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"great" != public U undergrad

Only oblivious Tailgate State alums would ever say such a thing. It's a fine college, but it's huge, and tends to attract a very obnoxious out-of-state subset who want to party, do drugs and leave with an easy bachelors -- kids rejected from USC, Penn and Georgetown.

Yes, it's this big secret of U of M grads. We coast through our four years in a perpetual drug-addled state en route to an easy bachelor's degree. And thank god because it seems to have been a major admission criterion for all the top grad schools my friends and I attended: e.g., Harvard, Yale, Stanford. And, yes, I am so fortunate that I turned down one of the schools you mentioned above because I really wanted to put an asterisk on my cv to distinguish they my bachelor's degree was in fact an "easy" one.