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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
RandySF
(57,659 posts)but I do not know many American universities that will turn down presidential children.
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(53,475 posts)pnwmom
(108,925 posts)be encouraged to aim lower than they should, or otherwise to choose colleges for the wrong reasons.