Where do you think Malia Obama will enroll?

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if she chose a classic - like Princeton (her mother's undergrad alma mater). I know she is interested in film production but I seriously doubt if she would attend a school like NYU or USC. It would be cool if she did.

I read somewhere that Michelle Obama did not like her time at Princeton and has been an estranged alum.

In the 80s, Princeton was a very weird place for African Americans. The whole diversification exercise always felt a bit forced. I am sure that it is much better now.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish the Obamas would have kept it real and sent their kids to public school, like Amy Carter, who was accepted into Brown.

Yes, accepted into Brown. This is one of the biggest urban myths out there, she neither graduated from DC public schools (she did from a private school back in Georgia) nor did she graduate from Brown University.

None of what I wrote about Amy is an urban legend. She did attend public schools in DC (and probably would have graduated if her dad won reelection) and was accepted at Brown.

She attended DCPS elementary, BFD. A lot of people send their kids to public elementary. However by fifth and sixth grade, the affluent kids are majority enrolled in private. Key and Mann elementary are perfect examples

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Anonymous wrote:I wish the Obamas would have kept it real and sent their kids to public school, like Amy Carter, who was accepted into Brown.

Lots of people choose private school for their kids. It's not really that big a deal and it's probably easier for a private school to handle a high profile kid then it is for a public school to do so. Having a presidential kid at a public school would probably make life really difficult for the student body and their parents.

What DCPS is the White House zoned for? Thompson?

SWW

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Anonymous wrote:I wish the Obamas would have kept it real and sent their kids to public school, like Amy Carter, who was accepted into Brown.

Yes, accepted into Brown. This is one of the biggest urban myths out there, she neither graduated from DC public schools (she did from a private school back in Georgia) nor did she graduate from Brown University.

None of what I wrote about Amy is an urban legend. She did attend public schools in DC (and probably would have graduated if her dad won reelection) and was accepted at Brown.

She attended DCPS elementary, BFD. A lot of people send their kids to public elementary. However by fifth and sixth grade, the affluent kids are majority enrolled in private. Key and Mann elementary are perfect examples

Amy went to Hardy middle school. Public school.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish the Obamas would have kept it real and sent their kids to public school, like Amy Carter, who was accepted into Brown.

Yes, accepted into Brown. This is one of the biggest urban myths out there, she neither graduated from DC public schools (she did from a private school back in Georgia) nor did she graduate from Brown University.

None of what I wrote about Amy is an urban legend. She did attend public schools in DC (and probably would have graduated if her dad won reelection) and was accepted at Brown.

She attended DCPS elementary, BFD. A lot of people send their kids to public elementary. However by fifth and sixth grade, the affluent kids are majority enrolled in private. Key and Mann elementary are perfect examples

That's because they all bail out of DCPS before they are stuck with Hardy middle school, which doesn't have a great reputation. There is a higher public school retention rate in those upper NW neighborhoods that are zoned for Deal.

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Anonymous wrote:Stanford released a report on cross admit information that showed, almost unequivocally, that anyone who has the choice to attend Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or Stanford will attend one of them. Nearly 100% of people choosing between Stanford and another school choose Stanford, and the 3 most prestigious ivies were the only exception.

For that reason, Malia will probably choose one of those.

The key word in PP's first sent sentence is "almost". One of my (much younger) stepsisters was admitted to Harvard & Stanford but chose Columbia. The other got into Stanford & Yale but chose -- gasp! -- NYU. They were both smart enough to choose the best fit instead of just going with the most "prestigious" school.

That said, I'm guessing Malia will end up at either Stanford or Harvard. I wouldn't be surprised, however, if she goes to Columbia instead.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if she chose a classic - like Princeton (her mother's undergrad alma mater). I know she is interested in film production but I seriously doubt if she would attend a school like NYU or USC. It would be cool if she did.

I read somewhere that Michelle Obama did not like her time at Princeton and has been an estranged alum.

In the 80s, Princeton was a very weird place for African Americans. The whole diversification exercise always felt a bit forced. I am sure that it is much better now.

Her brother went there around the same time and seemed to have a very positive experience. Like anything, it depends on the individual.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if she chose a classic - like Princeton (her mother's undergrad alma mater). I know she is interested in film production but I seriously doubt if she would attend a school like NYU or USC. It would be cool if she did.

I read somewhere that Michelle Obama did not like her time at Princeton and has been an estranged alum.

In the 80s, Princeton was a very weird place for African Americans. The whole diversification exercise always felt a bit forced. I am sure that it is much better now.

Her brother went there around the same time and seemed to have a very positive experience. Like anything, it depends on the individual.

he was a star baller on campus. not comparable to MO.

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Malia's cousin is a soph at princeton

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it that just because she's a politicians childe then that automatically makes her Ivy League material?

Because her parents are graduates of Columbia, Harvard and Princeton. I'd expect anyone's offspring with those credentials to be Ivy League material.

My parents have three Harvard degrees between the two of them. The real ones, not the Kennedy School stuff. I was not Ivy League material. My sister was, however--albeit at a lesser Ivy. But I had to settle for a top 25 public school.

This is the most DCUM thing that ever was said.

The point was that a president's kid gets in the Ivy unlike a commoner's kid. But just think: how dumb does a president's kid have to be if she ends up attending, say, UT-Austin?

I am not defending any Bush. But who says an Ivy is always the be all and end all? And UT Austin is an excellent university, but not for everyone. The ill-informed snobbery on this board is pretty amazing. If I had a choice of, say, Cornell vs. UT, I would definitely choose UT.

--Not a Texas Ex

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A brand-name school is not a proxy for intelligence.

Wow do you even live in DC? Your school is not only a proxy for intelligence, it reveals everything about you.

Basically astrology for "smart" people.

Please tell me you are joking. I've known totally unoriginal Ivy grads and brilliant state school grads. If you're real...blech.

That isn't what I think, that's just the prevailing attitude here.

DC is a city of pedigree.

Yes, thanks, I grew up here. I just find this overt snobbery totally insufferable.

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The simple answer: wherever she wants to.

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Anonymous wrote:The simple answer: wherever she wants to.

Would oxbridge let her skate in if she was not academically strong enough, on paper and in her tutorial interviews? Not sure.

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Anonymous wrote:The simple answer: wherever she wants to.

Would oxbridge let her skate in if she was not academically strong enough, on paper and in her tutorial interviews? Not sure.

Sure. They are even more gaga (pardon the expression) over fame than the U.S. At least we don't give our celebrities knighthoods.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if she chose a classic - like Princeton (her mother's undergrad alma mater). I know she is interested in film production but I seriously doubt if she would attend a school like NYU or USC. It would be cool if she did.

I read somewhere that Michelle Obama did not like her time at Princeton and has been an estranged alum.

In the 80s, Princeton was a very weird place for African Americans. The whole diversification exercise always felt a bit forced. I am sure that it is much better now.

Let's be clear. It may have been awkward, but it was not forced. It was a voluntary initiative to admit minority students like MO who objectively were usually less qualified than other students in order to enhance their future opportunities and the opportunities of their children. And, by and large, that is exactly what it has achieved.

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Anonymous wrote:This isn't regarding malia, but why hasn't any POTUS kid gone to any of the military academies? Are they barred from doing so?

Now that ROTC is back in the ivies, will we see potus kids going that route?

Doubt it.

I can't remember the last time a child/teen in the White House was a boy. GHWB 41 had twin girls, Clinton had a girl, GWB's kids were grown before he got to the White House, Reagan's kids from both marriages were grown, Carter had a girl, Ford had a daughter at Holton Arms but I'm not sure it overlapped with his presidency.

Considering that the service academies are more than 80 percent male, I think this makes a lot of sense.