Malia - Harvard

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What an excellent example to show why we must stop race-conscious AA and pay more attention to SES and educational background instead.

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Anonymous wrote:What an excellent example to show why we must stop race-conscious AA and pay more attention to SES and educational background instead.

You're getting off topic.

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No HBCU considered? Doesn't the Obama family care about their heritage?

Their heritage would be Ivy League since that where her parents (and paternal grandfather, uncle, niece) went.

Thank you for the clarification!!!

Now, what will they say under Race/ Ethnicity? Can you mark "Privileged 1%" instead of AA?

I was kidding; you're annoying.

Not sure why a girl who's parents attended the top schools wouldn't also attend a top 5 university.

http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/undergraduate-colleges/national-universities.aspx

What are you implying? Only kids with HBCU-educated parents should apply to HBCUs?

Nope that's what you implied. I'm saying that it's no shock that a girl with Ivy League parents would also be heavily leaning towards Ivy League (and Stanford) and highly selective liberal arts colleges. Some people have hurt feelings about her not looking at HBCU's but if you look at where her parents (Princeton, Columbia, Harvard), uncle (Princeton), aunt (Barnard), cousins (Princeton/Wesleyan) and paternal grandfather (Harvard) attended it's obvious the schools she'd be looking at.

Interesting that a number of Michelle Obama's family has attended Princeton because she supposedly didn't love the place.

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Michelle Obama's brother (Craig) preceded her at Princeton. He graduated 1983 and she graduated 1985. As a highly acclaimed basketball player at Princeton (twice named Ivy League Player of the Year), Craig likely had a much different and more enjoyable experience at Princeton thank Michelle. Craig's daughter is currently a student at Princeton and plays on the basketball team. So while there are plenty of family connections to Princeton, Malia will likely have many more options to choose from that will trump these affiliations and allow her to dismiss Old Nassau as a viable option.

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Anonymous wrote:Michelle Obama's brother (Craig) preceded her at Princeton. He graduated 1983 and she graduated 1985. As a highly acclaimed basketball player at Princeton (twice named Ivy League Player of the Year), Craig likely had a much different and more enjoyable experience at Princeton than Michelle. Craig's daughter is currently a student at Princeton and plays on the basketball team. So while there are plenty of family connections to Princeton, Malia will likely have many more options to choose from that will trump these affiliations and allow her to dismiss Old Nassau as a viable option.

I agree. Don't see Malia going there other then to be with her cousin Leslie for a year.

Malia seems to be heavily leaning Stanford; one of the Nesbitt daughters attends.

On Craig, he probably had more fun but his grades suffered. MO did much better academically.

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Anonymous wrote:What an excellent example to show why we must stop race-conscious AA and pay more attention to SES and educational background instead.

Do you think that colleges are unaware of Malia Obama's SES and educational background? Are you under the impression that she will get favorable treatment in the admissions process because of her race?

This is actually the worst possible example of the benefits/costs of race-conscious AA. Her race is immaterial. She is the daughter of the POTUS. Her application sits in a pile all by itself.

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Anonymous wrote:What an excellent example to show why we must stop race-conscious AA and pay more attention to SES and educational background instead.

Do you think that colleges are unaware of Malia Obama's SES and educational background? Are you under the impression that she will get favorable treatment in the admissions process because of her race?

This is actually the worst possible example of the benefits/costs of race-conscious AA. Her race is immaterial. She is the daughter of the POTUS. Her application sits in a pile all by itself.

+ 1. If Malia was wholly unqualified to attend an Ivy League level school she probably wouldn't apply. Her college counselor (and parents) would probably come up with a list of schools that would fit her best. But even if she applied and was rejected from Ivy League/MIT/Stanford it would be a rejection from the best colleges in the US. About 93% of applicants are rejected every year.

Not to hate on Jenna but I don't think she was Yale material, she knew it and went to UT Austin and had a great college experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Michelle Obama's brother (Craig) preceded her at Princeton. He graduated 1983 and she graduated 1985. As a highly acclaimed basketball player at Princeton (twice named Ivy League Player of the Year), Craig likely had a much different and more enjoyable experience at Princeton thank Michelle. Craig's daughter is currently a student at Princeton and plays on the basketball team. So while there are plenty of family connections to Princeton, Malia will likely have many more options to choose from that will trump these affiliations and allow her to dismiss Old Nassau as a viable option.

Get a life.

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Anonymous wrote:Michelle Obama's brother (Craig) preceded her at Princeton. He graduated 1983 and she graduated 1985. As a highly acclaimed basketball player at Princeton (twice named Ivy League Player of the Year), Craig likely had a much different and more enjoyable experience at Princeton thank Michelle. Craig's daughter is currently a student at Princeton and plays on the basketball team. So while there are plenty of family connections to Princeton, Malia will likely have many more options to choose from that will trump these affiliations and allow her to dismiss Old Nassau as a viable option.

Get a life.

NP, do you not like the facts that this poster has laid out.

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Yep, Ron Reagan lasted all of one semester at Yale.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep, Ron Reagan lasted all of one semester at Yale.

Bwahaha I really don't know much about Reagan.

Reagan attended Eureka College, a Disciples-oriented liberal arts school, where he became a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, a cheerleader, and studied economics and sociology. While involved, the Miller Center of Public Affairs described him as an "indifferent student". He majored in Economics and graduated with a C average.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Early_life

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You gone learn something today. Ronald "Ron" Prescott Reagan is the atheist son. Ronald Wilson Reagan is the prez.

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Anonymous wrote:Michelle Obama's brother (Craig) preceded her at Princeton. He graduated 1983 and she graduated 1985. As a highly acclaimed basketball player at Princeton (twice named Ivy League Player of the Year), Craig likely had a much different and more enjoyable experience at Princeton thank Michelle. Craig's daughter is currently a student at Princeton and plays on the basketball team. So while there are plenty of family connections to Princeton, Malia will likely have many more options to choose from that will trump these affiliations and allow her to dismiss Old Nassau as a viable option.

Get a life.

NP, do you not like the facts that this poster has laid out.

No. Just the weird degree of detail speculating about where someone else's kid may go to school. The advice stands.

[Anonymous]

Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were both "C" students in college. Never would have imagined that.....yeah, right @#$%!

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Anonymous wrote:What an excellent example to show why we must stop race-conscious AA and pay more attention to SES and educational background instead.

Do you think that colleges are unaware of Malia Obama's SES and educational background? Are you under the impression that she will get favorable treatment in the admissions process because of her race?

This is actually the worst possible example of the benefits/costs of race-conscious AA. Her race is immaterial. She is the daughter of the POTUS. Her application sits in a pile all by itself.

+ 1. If Malia was wholly unqualified to attend an Ivy League level school she probably wouldn't apply. Her college counselor (and parents) would probably come up with a list of schools that would fit her best. But even if she applied and was rejected from Ivy League/MIT/Stanford it would be a rejection from the best colleges in the US. About 93% of applicants are rejected every year.

Not to hate on Jenna but I don't think she was Yale material, she knew it and went to UT Austin and had a great college experience.

She seems like a nice, friendly, plumpish person.