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If the writing wasn't egregiously poor, it was still bad and well below what most Ivy undergraduates would have produced. It also generally was understood at the time that sociology was by far the easiest major available at an Ivy campus.

Is it really? I've read many undergraduate theses from students who attended elite schools, and they are most certainly by and large, not great prose.

Seriously, I thought we learned in 9th grade English that you NEVER use first or second person POV in academic writing.

Please tell me that thesis is a joke!

Do you honestly think Princeton gives a shit what you think?

+1. I recently read several of my undergrad college papers from 20+ years ago. They are decent but definitely not PhD material, and nowhere near the standard of my present day writing skills.

That said, I wouldn't mind taking a peak at GWB's undergrad thesis since he admits he was a C student.

LOL!!! PP here. That's peek, not peak. I'm still working on my skills and HATE autocorrect!

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If the writing wasn't egregiously poor, it was still bad and well below what most Ivy undergraduates would have produced. It also generally was understood at the time that sociology was by far the easiest major available at an Ivy campus.

Is it really? I've read many undergraduate theses from students who attended elite schools, and they are most certainly by and large, not great prose.

Seriously, I thought we learned in 9th grade English that you NEVER use first or second person POV in academic writing.

Please tell me that thesis is a joke!

Do you honestly think Princeton gives a shit what you think?

+1. I recently read several of my undergrad college papers from 20+ years ago. They are decent but definitely not PhD material, and nowhere near the standard of my present day writing skills.

That said, I wouldn't mind taking a peak at GWB's undergrad thesis since he admits he was a C student.

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If the writing wasn't egregiously poor, it was still bad and well below what most Ivy undergraduates would have produced. It also generally was understood at the time that sociology was by far the easiest major available at an Ivy campus.

Is it really? I've read many undergraduate theses from students who attended elite schools, and they are most certainly by and large, not great prose.

Seriously, I thought we learned in 9th grade English that you NEVER use first or second person POV in academic writing.

Please tell me that thesis is a joke!

Do you honestly think Princeton gives a shit what you think?

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If the writing wasn't egregiously poor, it was still bad and well below what most Ivy undergraduates would have produced. It also generally was understood at the time that sociology was by far the easiest major available at an Ivy campus.

Is it really? I've read many undergraduate theses from students who attended elite schools, and they are most certainly by and large, not great prose.

Seriously, I thought we learned in 9th grade English that you NEVER use first or second person POV in academic writing.

Please tell me that thesis is a joke!

Anonymous wrote:The NY Times weighs in on ths important issue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/us/politics/malia-obamas-college-pick-ivies-liberal-arts-or-public-university.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Could well be Harvard.

The NY Times weighs in on ths important issue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/us/politics/malia-obamas-college-pick-ivies-liberal-arts-or-public-university.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Anonymous wrote:It won't be at a historically black college.

You mean it won't be a Historically Black College. Unfortunately, you are right. Their parents clearly don't understand the benefit.

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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.

They threw her out after sophomore year for neglecting her studies. Clearly an example that the Obamas should want to follow. Skip the judgements about where they choose to send their daughters. I can't name 5 upper middle class AA families in DC that send their kids to DC publics. "Keeping it real" has way too high of a cost.

Affluent AA have been sending their kids to private schools since the 50's. Black Kids at St. Albans, GTD, and Sidwell "aint" nothing new. Plenty of Affluent blacks send their kids to SWW & Benjamin B.

Thanks. As a very affluent AA parent with a kid in DCPS, good to know that I have been been given my orders and expectations. I also know a lot of affluent "AA" parents who are catching hell trying to keep up with the Jones.

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If the writing wasn't egregiously poor, it was still bad and well below what most Ivy undergraduates would have produced. It also generally was understood at the time that sociology was by far the easiest major available at an Ivy campus.

Is it really? I've read many undergraduate theses from students who attended elite schools, and they are most certainly by and large, not great prose.

+1.

She will probably have multiple choices so it will probably depend on where she is most comfortable and maybe where her friends are going.

If the writing wasn't egregiously poor, it was still bad and well below what most Ivy undergraduates would have produced. It also generally was understood at the time that sociology was by far the easiest major available at an Ivy campus.

Is it really? I've read many undergraduate theses from students who attended elite schools, and they are most certainly by and large, not great prose.

I'll go with Brown

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Anonymous wrote:As Politico dug up her senior thesis and published it (it can be found here: http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf ), you can judge for yourself rather than relying on some random opinion piece you read that may or may not have had an agenda. I haven't read the entire text, but from skimming through it, it looks like what one would expect from a senior thesis, and the writing is in no way egregiously poor

If the writing wasn't egregiously poor, it was still bad and well below what most Ivy undergraduates would have produced. It also generally was understood at the time that sociology was by far the easiest major available at an Ivy campus.

Who cares? Mrs. Obama may not have been Eudora Welty or a rocket scientist in college. But she went on to have a commendable professional career even before she moved into the White House. As first lady, she has represented the country well, and even many of those who did not vote for her husband are proud of the job that she has done. She is an effective advocate for the issues that she has championed, including children's healthy eating, and she has brought attention to the sacrifices that military families make as their loved ones serve.

Anonymous wrote:As Politico dug up her senior thesis and published it (it can be found here: http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf ), you can judge for yourself rather than relying on some random opinion piece you read that may or may not have had an agenda. I haven't read the entire text, but from skimming through it, it looks like what one would expect from a senior thesis, and the writing is in no way egregiously poor

If the writing wasn't egregiously poor, it was still bad and well below what most Ivy undergraduates would have produced. It also generally was understood at the time that sociology was by far the easiest major available at an Ivy campus.

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Anonymous wrote:As Politico dug up her senior thesis and published it (it can be found here: http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf ), you can judge for yourself rather than relying on some random opinion piece you read that may or may not have had an agenda. I haven't read the entire text, but from skimming through it, it looks like what one would expect from a senior thesis, and the writing is in no way egregiously poor

Cmpletely agree. She comes off as self aware and introspective.

I have read that she does not like Princeton.