Malia - Harvard

[Anonymous]

I went through this decades ago, and I don't remember the specifics regarding this school, but how is she a legacy? I'm not sure that having a parent who graduated from the law school would count as a legacy connection for an undergrad applicant. If it does, cool ... just not sure, though. But no matter: she seems like a very bright person!

[Anonymous]

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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.

and you forgot, father of the President of the United States. Who are you? NO ONE!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Malia is going to Harvard. That's great, but was she accepted at all eight Ivies?

Maybe she didn't apply to all 8. We will never know. But honestly, if you get into Harvard, who cares. Harvard is the only on that matters. Harvard is King!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is her friend group also Harvard-bound?

What would this prove? I was the only one of my friends to go to an Ivy. We were all white girls. No one ever suggested I wasn't qualified or didn't merit it.

Malia's parents are both brilliant. It's not difficult to imagine she would have gotten in even without being the president's daughter. Tons of kids are academically qualified for Harvard (but may not get in for various reasons).

Brilliant?

Yes PBO, President of Harvard Law Review and Magna Cum Laude graduate and MO Cum Laude graduate (she was also salutatorian of her HS). What were your school credentials?

[Anonymous]

Brillant?

Yes, from child raised by single mother, then maternal grandparents, to become President of the United States. Yes, I'd say brilliant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is her friend group also Harvard-bound?

What would this prove? I was the only one of my friends to go to an Ivy. We were all white girls. No one ever suggested I wasn't qualified or didn't merit it.

Malia's parents are both brilliant. It's not difficult to imagine she would have gotten in even without being the president's daughter. Tons of kids are academically qualified for Harvard (but may not get in for various reasons).

Brilliant?

Yes PBO, President of Harvard Law Review and Magna Cum Laude graduate and MO Cum Laude graduate (she was also salutatorian of her HS). What were your school credentials?

+1

[Anonymous]

Leave her alone. I may be a Republican, but I wish the young lady only the best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went through this decades ago, and I don't remember the specifics regarding this school, but how is she a legacy? I'm not sure that having a parent who graduated from the law school would count as a legacy connection for an undergrad applicant. If it does, cool ... just not sure, though. But no matter: she seems like a very bright person!

How would you know, either way?

[Anonymous]

I must have missed what she plans to be doing during her gap year.... perhaps feeding the poor someplace?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is her friend group also Harvard-bound?

What would this prove? I was the only one of my friends to go to an Ivy. We were all white girls. No one ever suggested I wasn't qualified or didn't merit it.

Malia's parents are both brilliant. It's not difficult to imagine she would have gotten in even without being the president's daughter. Tons of kids are academically qualified for Harvard (but may not get in for various reasons).

Brilliant?

Yes PBO, President of Harvard Law Review and Magna Cum Laude graduate and MO Cum Laude graduate (she was also salutatorian of her HS). What were your school credentials?

+1

But Michelle was a Black Studies/Sociology major at Princeton. Not exactly a major in rocket science.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Malia is going to Harvard. That's great, but was she accepted at all eight Ivies?

Maybe she didn't apply to all 8. We will never know. But honestly, if you get into Harvard, who cares. Harvard is the only on that matters. Harvard is King!

--GDS parent.

[Anonymous]

I didn't read this entire thread, and I am sure she is an amazing kid in her own right, but please, President of the USA's child will get in anywhere she wants - no questions asked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't read this entire thread, and I am sure she is an amazing kid in her own right, but please, President of the USA's child will get in anywhere she wants - no questions asked.

How are you sure that any student is "amazing" unless you know them?

[Anonymous]

Just trying to give her the benefit of the doubt and not jump to negative conclusions. I was merely making the point that she would get in anywhere she ever wanted regardless of her academic status. You are right, I don't know her although my daughter does.

[Anonymous]

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

Well, they like to claim President Obama really wanted his daughters to go to GDS, but the Secret Service somehow overruled him, so it wouldn't surprise me if they actually try to count her as a GDS grad at Harvard!

Snarky much? Seriously, Maila has played tennis against GDS and has been seen at activities there, so it's pretty natural that she would know many Harvard-bound GDS students as friends and peers.