One Twitter user pointed out the obvious fortunate ability Malia Obama has to take a gap year because of her family’s status, with Cecily Walker writing, “middle class black parents of college bound students after Malia Obama’s announcement: ‘You got gap year money?'”
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“Malia will take a gap year before beginning school”, a White House statement said.
Obama has said he intends to stay in Washington after he leaves the White House until his youngest daughter, Sasha, graduates from high school in 2019. It’s gonna be hard for me not to have her around all the time.
Malia’s grades and standardized test scores remain closely guarded secrets, but factors in her favor in gaining admission to Harvard included her family background, study at top-flight schools and a unique upbringing that was bound to make for a remarkable college essay.
By choosing Harvard, Malia seems to have disregarded her parents’ advice.
When we first met Malia Obama, she was an adorable teenager standing alongside her father President Barack Obama and now she’s heading for Harvard. There are no official statistics kept on participation, but the American Gap Association found in surveys it conducted that about 30,000 to 40,000 students each year take advantage of the programme.
The where-will-she-go fever never died down after Malia made headlines in 2014 by wearing a Stanford T-shirt on a bicycle ride with her father, the Washington Post reported. Instead, the White House emailed reporters a two-sentence news release on the traditional May 1 deadline to declare acceptance.
“Oh, not even close – Malia going off and leaving me”, Mr. Obama said.
The White House gladly announced the great news, but the most-sought after college applicant in the country will not enroll in the Ivy League institution until the Fall of 2017, according to reports from New York Times and CNN. Both the President and First Lady earned their law degrees at Harvard Law School.
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“We are rushing too many kids off to college who aren’t ready or don’t know why they’re there”, he told the Times. Malia spent last summer in New York City interning on the set of HBO’s Girls, starring Lena Dunham. So, the question is: “What’s going to work for you?”
