She'll be taking a gap year, the White House announced on Sunday
President Obama and Malia walk from Marine One to board Air Force One. — REUTERS
Malia
Obama, the oldest daughter of President Obama and Michelle Obama, will
be attending Harvard University in the fall of 2017, the White House
said in a statement released to members of the press on Sunday. Until
then, she’ll be taking a gap year.
The news comes after much speculation over what college Malia would decide to attend. By early October, she had toured at least half a dozen Ivy League schools—including Yale, Princeton and Brown—as well as New York University, Tufts, Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley and others, The New York Times reported.
At a town hall in Des Moines, Iowa in September, Obama explained what advice he’s given to Malia as she considered what university to choose. “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. Obama also stressed the important of keeping up grades “until you get in, and after that, make sure you pass”—although he said he wasn’t worried about that with Malia. “She’s a hard worker,” he added.
Obama also advised students to be open to new experiences when
they go to college. “The whole point is for you to push yourself out of
your comfort level, meet people you haven’t met before, take classes
that you hadn’t thought of before. Stretch yourself. Because this is the
time to do it, when you’re young. Seek out new experiences,” he said.
For Michelle Obama, the important thing was that her daughters don’t feel like they need to choose a brand-name institution. “The one thing I’ve been telling my daughters is that I don’t want them to choose a name,” she told Seventeen magazine. “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?”
The news comes after much speculation over what college Malia would decide to attend. By early October, she had toured at least half a dozen Ivy League schools—including Yale, Princeton and Brown—as well as New York University, Tufts, Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley and others, The New York Times reported.
At a town hall in Des Moines, Iowa in September, Obama explained what advice he’s given to Malia as she considered what university to choose. “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. Obama also stressed the important of keeping up grades “until you get in, and after that, make sure you pass”—although he said he wasn’t worried about that with Malia. “She’s a hard worker,” he added.
For Michelle Obama, the important thing was that her daughters don’t feel like they need to choose a brand-name institution. “The one thing I’ve been telling my daughters is that I don’t want them to choose a name,” she told Seventeen magazine. “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?”
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