His grandmother was a bank vice president. His mother worked for USAID and the Ford Foundation. So the family wasn't exactly poor. He would have qualified for scholarships as a black American student, a status for which there are a lot more scholarships than foreign students), and he could have simply gotten student loans like most people at that time did.
Whatever the case, he did not get a Fulbright Scholarship as this letter claims.
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His grandmother was a bank vice president. His mother worked for USAID and the Ford Foundation. So the family wasn't exactly poor. He would have qualified for scholarships as a black American student, a status for which there are a lot more scholarships than foreign students), and he could have simply gotten student loans like most people at that time did.
Whatever the case, he did not get a Fulbright Scholarship as this letter claims.
58 posted on February 01, 2010 10:54:27 AM by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies] *******
I'm saving the above post so that if we ever see Obama's Occidental records and see how he paid for his education there, I can bring it back up to see if the poster is correct on his theory as to how Obama was paying for his education at Occidental College in California.