Why would Sasha Obama attend University of Michigan?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Possibly the same reason why Jenna Bush chose Texas while her sister went to Yale? It could be down to grades/scores, wanting a bigger school, wanting a different vibe?

She choose that before her father was elected President. There’s a good chance she wouldn’t have been accepted.

Do you mean Yale? Because he was "only" Governor of Texas and the son of a President? Not to mention she is a fourth generation legacy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious Question; I’ve worked in large companies, government, and consulting firms. I don’t see a ton of Ivy League graduates killing it anywhere. Sure you see them from time to time, but the vast majority of people really succeeding in the USA didn’t go to Ivey league schools.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it actually possible that she wasn’t accepted to a top 10?

She got into Yale SCEA

May be she let another senior from SFS go to Yale.

[Anonymous]

The gift of normalcy. Perhaps she wishes to be a more "normal" person, experience a slightly more ordinary college experience. She might need that to develop the strength of becoming her own person, someone apart from "daughter of .... ". She can have some anonymity.

[Anonymous]

People who think Michigan is mediocre are honestly just ignorant.

[Anonymous]

She’s going to have exactly the same employment opportunities anywhere. Anyone who thinks she could not have gotten into HYP is delusional.

[Anonymous]

She just wants to be with her friends. Why complicate this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Serious Question; I’ve worked in large companies, government, and consulting firms. I don’t see a ton of Ivy League graduates killing it anywhere. Sure you see them from time to time, but the vast majority of people really succeeding in the USA didn’t go to Ivey league schools.

Agree.

Eh, it depends on how you define killing it. If you mean CEOs, successful entrepreneurs, tech geniuses, a lot of what gets people there are personal traits, drive, timing and luck. Those things probably matter more that where they went to college.
If you mean a fairly straight and well-paved path to law firm partner, doctor or banker, those roads are full of Ivy grads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious Question; I’ve worked in large companies, government, and consulting firms. I don’t see a ton of Ivy League graduates killing it anywhere. Sure you see them from time to time, but the vast majority of people really succeeding in the USA didn’t go to Ivey league schools.

That is because there are more people who don't go to Ivys than do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it actually possible that she wasn’t accepted to a top 10?

She got into Yale SCEA

May be she let another senior from SFS go to Yale.

It doesn't work like that.

[Anonymous]

Relative proximity to Chicago, in a very nice area, some people want a bigger school but that still has good academics. Plus state flagships are feeders for a lot of top grad programs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Serious Question; I’ve worked in large companies, government, and consulting firms. I don’t see a ton of Ivy League graduates killing it anywhere. Sure you see them from time to time, but the vast majority of people really succeeding in the USA didn’t go to Ivey league schools.

Agree.

Well thats a numbers game. You are confusing the share of Ivy ppl who are successful with the share of successful ppl who went to the Ivy league. Let take rough numbers. Per wikipedia the sum total of undergrad students at the 8 ivies is 62,000 students. While dept of Ed says there are 11 million undergraduates students in total at 4-year colleges. So ivy league students are less than 1% of all college students. Probably 10% of college graduates go on to successful careers so even if every Ivy league graduate is successful (not true) they account for, at max, less than 10% of successful ppl.

[Anonymous]

Excellent school and I know several prominent African Americans in academe who graduated from Michigan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She’s going to have exactly the same employment opportunities anywhere. Anyone who thinks she could not have gotten into HYP is delusional.

For the last time, she got into Yale but chose Michigan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious Question; I’ve worked in large companies, government, and consulting firms. I don’t see a ton of Ivy League graduates killing it anywhere. Sure you see them from time to time, but the vast majority of people really succeeding in the USA didn’t go to Ivey league schools.

That's because the vast majority of people didn't go to Ivy's. Ivy grads still do very well for themselves.