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pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:36 AM Apr 2016

Michelle Obama shares college-admissions advice she's given to her daughters

Turns out her admissions counselors thought she was aiming a bit high.

I wonder why they thought that?




P.S. I wonder where Malia will choose to go? I've heard rumors about NYU.

http://www.people.com/article/michelle-obama-college-advice-daughters-malia-sasha

When it comes to picking the right college, Michelle Obama's No. 1 guideline is: you do you.

In a new interview in the latest issue of Seventeen magazine, on newsstands April 19, the first lady shares the college advice she's given her daughters, Sasha, 14,and Malia, 17, with young women and men across the country.

"The one thing I've been telling my daughters is that I don't want them to choose a name," she says. "I don't want them to think, 'Oh I should go to these top schools.' We live in a country where there are thousands of amazing universities. So, the question is: What's going to work for you?"

She would know. Despite doubts from her high school counselors, the first lady attended Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1985, and went on to earn a degree from Harvard Law School in 1988.

SNIP

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Michelle Obama shares college-admissions advice she's given to her daughters (Original Post) pnwmom Apr 2016 OP
I know she means well RandySF Apr 2016 #1
Wasn't she really sharing that for the benefit of other POC students? brush Apr 2016 #2
The point of this article is to reach other prospective college students who might also pnwmom Apr 2016 #3

RandySF

(57,659 posts)
1. I know she means well
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:44 AM
Apr 2016

but I do not know many American universities that will turn down presidential children.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
3. The point of this article is to reach other prospective college students who might also
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:56 AM
Apr 2016

be encouraged to aim lower than they should, or otherwise to choose colleges for the wrong reasons.

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