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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.
Both Michelle and Barack Obama are graduates of Harvard Law School, Michelle in 1988 and Barack in 1991. As an undergrad, President Obama attended Occidental College before transferring to Columbia, where he graduated in 1983.
Last fall, the president said he wasn’t pushing Malia in any particular direction.
“One piece of advice that I’ve given her is not to stress too much about having to get into one particular college,” he said during a town hall on college affordability in Des Moines, Iowa, in September. “There are a lot of good colleges and universities out there. Just because it’s not some name-brand, famous, fancy school doesn’t mean that you’re not going to get a great education there.”
Yahoo News.