Malia Obama's College Application Process Way More Interesting Than 2016 Election At This Point
Barack Obama may have had to make some difficult decisions as president, but surely none of those compare to that with which his daughter Malia, a high school senior, is now confronted: to which elite universities should she submit a college application?
The eldest First Kid is not wanting for choice. According to the New York Times, Malia has toured Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Brown—covering half the Ivy League—and non-Ivies Stanford, UC-Berkeley, New York University, Barnard, and Wesleyan. Also: Tufts.
But! Which power elite tour guides get the privilege (lol) of walking backwards in front of the president’s daughter and trying not to trip? There’s a question. Not to blow up anybody’s spot, of course, but rather in the interest of documenting the mechanisms of social reproduction, here are a few:
At Columbia, the president’s alma mater, Malia was shown around by Zila Reyes Acosta-Grimes, a third-year law school student serving on the university senate whose father is a prominent New York jurist.
Sure.
At Yale, the college’s head student tour guide, Jeremy Hutton—once a competitor in the Mr. Yale beauty pageant—showed off the Gothic campus.
Very cool.
At Harvard, Malia toured the Yard with Taylor Nides, a fellow senior from Sidwell and the daughter of Thomas R. Nides, a former deputy secretary of state under Mrs. Clinton, and Virginia Moseley, the deputy Washington bureau chief at CNN.
Malia and Taylor followed their tour with a lunch off campus with Olivia Moseley, a Harvard senior who is the niece of Ms. Moseley and Mr. Nides.
Haha, right—as one does. Anyway! Keep those grades up, Malia.
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