Malia - Harvard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard it is -

rather accurate early information on this board....

[Anonymous]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/us/politics/malia-obama-to-attend-harvard-but-not-until-2017.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

After a gap year. College has to be a lot more manageable when your dad is finished being president.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:100% guarantee she won't be enrolling in math 55 come fall.

Will be a sociology or anthro major, and skate into a job in Hollywood/media or "advocacy".

Affirmative action and development target in one go. Excellent stuff.

You sound bitter and jealous. Stay mad while Malia begins her journey of becoming the third generation to graduate from Harvard (President Obama's father is a Harvard grad as well).

as well as a severe alcoholic, totally absent father and failed Kenyan government functionary.

If Obama were white, then we would cheer his triumph over circumstances. Alas, Obama is to blame for everything, including being a sober, present, successful president.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:100% guarantee she won't be enrolling in math 55 come fall.

Will be a sociology or anthro major, and skate into a job in Hollywood/media or "advocacy".

Affirmative action and development target in one go. Excellent stuff.

You sound bitter and jealous. Stay mad while Malia begins her journey of becoming the third generation to graduate from Harvard (President Obama's father is a Harvard grad as well).

as well as a severe alcoholic, totally absent father and failed Kenyan government functionary.

If Obama were white, then we would cheer his triumph over circumstances. Alas, Obama is to blame for everything, including being a sober, present, successful president.

The Obamas seem to be excellent parents, too. Hard to argue with that.

[Anonymous]

Have have no beef with Malia, but what evidence do you have she merited the Harvard admission despite legacy. Do you base this on straight hair, good looks, cuteness, right side of the tracks. Is this speculation on your part?

What is the evidence base here, attendance at a private school? What if she lived in SE DC would you draw the same conclusions ... and why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have have no beef with Malia, but what evidence do you have she merited the Harvard admission despite legacy. Do you base this on straight hair, good looks, cuteness, right side of the tracks. Is this speculation on your part?

What is the evidence base here, attendance at a private school? What if she lived in SE DC would you draw the same conclusions ... and why?

What evidence do you have that she isn't "merited?" Both of her parents (and uncle, grandfather...) ares Ivy grads. Why difficult to believe that she would be qualified to go that direction as well? (Gong to ignore your ridiculous comments about hair and appearance. Sounds like a personal issue)

[Anonymous]

You have just made the argument that legacy is sufficient merit enough to attend an Ivy League school over the non legacy student. Thus, G.W. Bush's C-average in high school trumps the A from a non legacy student?

That's the point....being a legacy is not a metric of merit in the academic and intellectual world.

To assume supreme intelligence worthy of Harvard admission from legacy and birth right is the perennial problem in America....Centuries of Affirmative Action for legacy. This explains why G.W. Bush can go from Yale to Harvard regardless of what is on their scholastic transcript. It's the DNA transcript that matters!!

[Anonymous]

What evidence do you have that she isn't "merited?" Both of her parents (and uncle, grandfather...) ares Ivy grads. Why difficult to believe that she would be qualified to go that direction as well? (Gong to ignore your ridiculous comments about hair and appearance. Sounds like a personal issue)

Centuries of affirmative action for White" legacy when Women, Jews and Blacks were not even allowed to apply or matriculate to develop traditions of legacy! what happened to grades and performance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have have no beef with Malia, but what evidence do you have she merited the Harvard admission despite legacy. Do you base this on straight hair, good looks, cuteness, right side of the tracks. Is this speculation on your part?

What is the evidence base here, attendance at a private school? What if she lived in SE DC would you draw the same conclusions ... and why?

We will never know her grades and scores (and we shouldn't) so I can't argue on anything except coming from a very scholarly family. This convo is pointless. You just want to cry about a black girl (who's father happens to be POTUS) getting into one of the most prestigious colleges in the world.

[Anonymous]

Not at all. As a Black person I am simply pointing out how fickle Whites are with baseless impressions with no evidence. Malia must be deserving but Shaquilla not -- without rhyme or reason ... just preconceived notions. Just as GW Bush is deserving (despite C- average) but another from the other side of the tracks is not (despite A+ average).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not at all. As a Black person I am simply pointing out how fickle Whites are with baseless impressions with no evidence. Malia must be deserving but Shaquilla not -- without rhyme or reason ... just preconceived notions. Just as GW Bush is deserving (despite C- average) but another from the other side of the tracks is not (despite A+ average).

This convo is had every year and it's like we're talking in circles (legacy, elite children being admitted, etc). Nothing is accomplished with this convo. I'm sure she knows as POTUS daughter/Ivy League legacy people were going to insinuate (or automatically assume) she didn't get in on her own merit. Either way she'll have to take the classes and graduate and make the most of her education. That's the single most privilege she has; she doesn't need to get into the Ivy League to propel herself and family out of poverty. She can relax and enjoy her classes.

[Anonymous]

Question is, does GDS allow us to count her in the comparison of students going to Harvard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard it is -

rather accurate early information on this board....

Seriously. All the posters on this board insisting she would go to Barnard or Wesleyan...

[Anonymous]

Is her friend group also Harvard-bound?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have have no beef with Malia, but what evidence do you have she merited the Harvard admission despite legacy. Do you base this on straight hair, good looks, cuteness, right side of the tracks. Is this speculation on your part?

What is the evidence base here, attendance at a private school? What if she lived in SE DC would you draw the same conclusions ... and why?

What evidence is there that Barbara Bush (or her father, Geaorge W Bush, for that matter) merited admission to Yale?

Kids who are legacies are elite schools have always had an advantage when it comes to being admitted to said schools. This advatage is made even greater when they come from prominent families. This is hardly a new phenomenon.