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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
^^she was not a legacy. Her brother attended but neither of her parents had even gone to college. I swear where do you people get your information? Anything to tear down her achievements.

here - http://www.newsweek.com/who-michelle-obama-94161 in it she refers to herself as a legacy. Too her credit, she's always been forthright about how having a family tie to Princeton gave her an advantage in the admissions process. [/quote]

I have never heard of legacy admissions applying through siblings, just parents.  The way it is worded in the article sounds like speculation--or like something perhaps Michelle worried about due to some personal issues with impostor syndrome.  I also don't understand how this article can say that she wasn't at the top of her class, but it has been well recorded in the press over and over that she was salutatorian!

In any case, she grew up in a working class family, she attended a selective admissions magnet school (which, by the way was a 3 hours round trip commute, just to get a stellar education) had a very strong academic record there, and went on to Princeton, despite the fact that neither of her parents had attended college.  From everything in that story it seems like a) she was an excellent student who there is no reason to believe did not get in on her own merits and b) she didn't have a lot of the advantages that non-minorities coming from upper middle class families have, including parents with a college education.[/quote]

I remember some columnist tracking down and posting Michelle Obama's senior thesis a few years ago.  It was distressing how poorly written it was, and this was after she'd already been at Princeton for three years.  She may very well be quite intelligent, but it was quite clear that she was not on the same page academically as most of her classmates.  It's no surprise that she felt out of place because, in some respects, she was indeed out of her league.  But Princeton and other Ivies took a chance with her and many other minority students in the 80s, and it's translated into longer-term benefits for those students and their children, regardless of whether they misleadingly want to assert that their sense of disorientation was solely a product of a school having largely educated white males from prep schools at an even earlier point in its history.
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