Posted on 05/01/2016 1:52:54 PM PDT by PROCON
President Obama’s eldest daughter, Malia, has made a decision about where she will attend college. And she has chosen Harvard University.
Malia, who is due to graduate from high school next month, will enter Harvard in the fall of 2017, the White House said Sunday. She will take a “gap year” before beginning her freshman year at the Cambridge, Mass., school, the Obamas said.
Malia had visited at least a dozen elite public and private colleges, including Columbia (where President Obama earned his bachelor’s degree), Princeton (where first lady Michelle Obama earned hers), Brown, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Stanford, Tufts, Berkeley, Barnard and Wesleyan.
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One of my son in laws went to Harvard and we visited several times. I was utterly unimpressed with most of the people. I expected everyone to be a cut Above but intellectually they were pretty much a cross section of society. The most impressive thing was the student parking lot. The shabbiest vehicle I could find was a top of the line Grand Cherokee.
Remedial reading writing and rithmatic. Affirmative Action admission.
Harvard.
Our standards are as GM standards were in the malaise era.
And our products are even worse.
We know that is a hard thing to do.
But we are Harvard.
We have no standard that cannot be overcome with money.
Will Malia’s REAL biological parents please stand up? It ain’t Barky and the Moose, that’s for sure.
A few highly selective private research universities modify results for high scoring applicants, or at least they did years ago while the lawsuits were still in progress, but I don’t believe the SAT program itself has ever changed scores according to race.
Agree. Just promotes “Peter Pan” syndrome, plus sets a bad example for other young adults who extend the time they are a burden on their families. Gut it out, work hard, take summer classes, graduate in three years. Do post-grad right after; 18 mos. for a masters. Oh, and get a degree that’s worth something: science, tech, engineering, math.
All of this would go in & out of Malaria’s empty head. She’s gonna go party with the Hollywood ‘tards for a year. The tabloids will have some juicy pics of the entitled brat doing shots & bong hits, passing out, etc.
It is unless she is going to use it to have a “real” job so she can learn about the world of work-which I doubt, since she is a rich, spoiled kid. I was a rural working class kid-we only used “gap” time to work full time to make enough money to pay for college, then drop to part-time work once we started-but rich kids used gap years to tour Europe, or live abroad, absorbing “culture” (partying) on the parents’ dime...
Sometimes, you’d have a “gap” semester or two out of college to work full time again if you were running short of funds-borrowing funds was not an option...
To the extent the family stays out of the political spotlight, I would agree. The daughters, by and large, have stayed out. Michelle not so much.
Chosen a good school? That is a very, very open question. Probably no worse than a multitude of others, but somewhere she will be taught to think for herself? Doubt it.
Wish her well? I do wish her well. May she learn to think, truly think, for herself.
Thanks Red...
I thik it really destroys educational momentum. You are in that focused learning mode. I suppose some majors are less taxing than others, but mine was heavy science and engineering. You dont want to lose a year of time to nothing.
Does she have the grades to make it to Harvard or is this just another perk of having an (in)famous parent.
I would never send my kids to Harvard. All the brilliant ones who ruined our country went to Ivy Leagues. Look what good that has done.
Seems to be becoming a tradition.My nephew took a gap year in Germany,but he spent the time working with handicapped children.Made some money by tutoring math for 50 bucks an hour.
Joe Klein
Do you think the left is going to play nice because you do?
I agree.
A lot of the brilliant ones who built the country went to Harvard, too.
Over the years, I’ve interviewed scores of Harvard kids, and have had a dozen plus work for me, along with interviewing many hundreds of non-Harvard kids, and having scores of them work for me.
Basically, a Harvard kid with a respectable GPA has a 90% chance of being usefully intelligent, and a 20% or so chance of being usefully brilliant. At a good but not super-selective school (say, UNC-CH or Rochester) for someone with a respectable GPA those odds are about 25% and 5%. At a more-or-less open admission school those odds are about 10% and (in my experience) 0%, but I allow that brilliant kids from undistinguished schools tend not to be the type who want to come to New York to work in finance, so I just haven’t seen them.
Doesn't matter. She is the daughter of the first black pResident. Merit does NOT count anymore.
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