Yesterday, at the White House Correspondent’s dinner Obama said that he would be staying in Washington DC for a few years so that his youngest daughter Sasha is able to complete her school.
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PresidentBarack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama announced on Sunday, May 1, that their daughter Malia Obama will be attending Harvard University in the fall of 2017.
And for Malia, the decision to delay school one year may mean she will not have to be accompanied by the Secret Service contingent that would be required if she began college this fall.
Break or no break, Malia and the Obamas have a lot to be proud of with this latest accomplishment – for the upcoming graduating class of 2019, Harvard cited 37,707 applicants, only 2,080 of which were admitted: that’s less than a 6% acceptance rate! “Malia will take a gap year before beginning school”, the White House said in a statement.
The 17-year-old will graduate this summer from Washington’s prestigious Sidwell Friends School. Schools visits included Brown; University of California, Berkeley; Stanford; New York University; Barnard, Tufts; Yale; Wesleyan; and the University of Pennsylvania.
“I’m not ready for her to leave”, he added.
Malia Obama’s younger sister, Sasha, is 14 and also a student at Sidwell Friends.
Foreign study could be in Malia Obama’s future; her mother once said she would like her daughters to study overseas but isn’t pushing it. “She’s just a really smart, capable person and she’s ready to make her own way”. The president said recently when asked to speak at the commencement but turned down the offer, “I’m going to be wearing dark glasses… and I’m going to cry”, ABC News reported. “The one thing I’ve been telling my daughters is that I don’t want them to choose a name”, she told Seventeen. So the question is: “What’s going to work for you?”
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In 2014, she reportedly worked as a production assistant on Halle Berry’s CBS show “Extant”.
