Has anybody heard anything about where Malia is thinking about going for college?

[CTyankee]

The reason I ask is that Malia is the same age as one of my granddaughters and her parents are going through a large compendium of U.S. colleges and universities and their academic rating. This is where high school seniors can determine their best shots at acceptance, learn more about the programs they are interested in and the pros and cons of campus life there.

And then there is the trudge to the schools in the spring as the young hopefuls descend on campuses all over the country to talk to school recruitment officers. We get a select bunch here in New Haven every spring.

I'll bet Malia will visit her mom's alma mater, Princeton, and maybe Dad's Columbia. But I remember when Chelsea Clinton decided to leave the East entirely and go to Stanford...and I don't blame her...

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. She doesn't have to stay in the US.

I looked at the University in York, England at one point, and U. Toronto at another.

[CTyankee]

3. no, but we have such marvelous colleges and universities here it makes the choices tough.

And there are always "Junior year abroad" programs just about everywhere...art majors galore in Rome and Florence, for instance!

[Warpy]

11. Right, I was thinking of the Sorbonne

She's the daughter of a US president and her parents are wealthy enough to send her anywhere.

[hifiguy]

21. Yep. She's an automatic admit anywhere.

Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, Yale or any school in Europe. Nice perk.

[elleng]

2. Haven't heard,

and I somehow doubt we'll hear much. 'Trudge' to the schools was one of my favorite times, purposeful travel w the 'kids!'

[CTyankee]

4. Lots of tension, too...this particular grandkids mom, my daughter, was not all that

energized about going to visit schools. Her aunt, a Mount Holyoke grad, really talked up the school and took her visit the campus and she really liked it. It was good for her as she was super shy and an all womens college was what she needed. She did very well there...

[elleng]

7. Just recalled,

wasn't there something 'recently,' she wants to go into film/video/somesuch, and had visited someplace in NYC???

[CTyankee]

8. I didn't see that...so maybe NYU?

My son went to Columbia and absolutely loved it. But going to school in NYC is not for everyone...my son loved the big city and still lives in Manhattan...

[elleng]

9. Don't recall which.

Here are a few links, Harvard/Tufts/Brown

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/03/26/malia-obama-spotted-touring-harvard-tufts/NU7CrGqEoXQRUZWRIofDJL/story.html

OK, LOADED!

Brown, Yale and Wesleyan University on Tuesday. And on Monday,
Princeton, where Michelle went for her undergraduate degree and for which the family recently cheered on in the women’s NCAA basketball tournament.

Malia also visited NYU and Columbia in February, as well as UC Berkeley and Stanford last summer.

[CTyankee]

10. we saw zilch in the local press about Malia's Yale visit...

they must've had the school under wraps about it...

[elleng]

13. Yes AND a busy day,

Brown, Yale and Wesleyan University on Tuesday, rushing! Wonder whether she's joined the school's 'usual' tours.

[CTyankee]

14. I doubt that...I'm sure they want to keep it quiet...there is far too much congestion

around the Yale campus for hordes of press jamming up the major streets going into New Haven...Yale isn't isolated from the rest of New Haven...far from it...

[hifiguy]

22. NYU is one of the best film schools in the world.

That would make sense.

[elleng]

24. That may be the place I recall seeing 'news' about, hifiguy.

[shenmue]

5. Hmmm

Georgetown?

[CTyankee]

6. great guess! Kinda makes some sense and it's a great school...

it would be nice if she stayed in a dorm at least for freshman year.

I have a friend whose son was a Yale classmate of Barbara Bush and they got along very well. I don't remember if they were in the same residential college...it was awhile back...

[SheilaT]

12. Not that the Obamas

are asking me for advice, but the reason, as I understand it, Chelsea Clinton decided to go to Stanford was that she, like lots of college age kids, wanted to get away from home. I happen to think that's a good thing to do, if it's at all feasible.

[CTyankee]

15. And Stanford is a great school! Geez, not everybody has to go to the Ivy League for

a terrific college education!

[SheilaT]

17. That's so true.

It's genuinely scary how so many people have become convinced that they (or their kids) absolutely MUST attend an Ivy League school or their lives won't be worth living.

There are a lot of excellent schools out there, some of them ones most people have never heard of.

I often recommend the books by Loren Pope Looking Beyond the Ivy League and Colleges That Change Lives.

I discovered both of them a few years before my oldest was to head off to college, and I am so glad I did. Helped me re-think the entire college decision for both of them. Neither one was going to get into an Ivy League school, I already knew that, and it was so great to see lots of excellent alternatives.

[CTyankee]

18. there are the "little Ivies" such as Wesleyan, Amherst, etc. which are great

schools. They are typically smaller and have a nice feel, IMO...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ivies

[elleng]

16. Right, I got away from home (LI, NY,)

so went to OHIO!!!

Lots the Obama girls may want to get away from, of course. But where IS 'home???'

[CTyankee]

19. good question, ellen...we just don't know, do we, where the Obamas will end up after

his term ends. If they go to live in the Chicago area, she might choose Northwestern...

[mcar]

20. I was thinking that today myself

My youngest graduated from HS in May. We've been touring and researching colleges for several years.

[CTyankee]

23. all the questions...do I have a high enough SAT score? Is my choice of major what they

want? Am I geographically well positioned? Not to mention whether the kid even feels he/she would fit in there, given the political bent of the school...

it's a big, effin' deal...

[mcar]

25. It really is yank

I took the SAT once and only applied to one college. Graduated in 1980. It's a different world now. Kids have to be so much more focused.

[CTyankee]

26. we didn't even HAVE SATs when I was applying to colleges back in the Stone Age...

I did visit the school I was interested in attending, tho...and wound up at Carnegie Mellon. Believe, me, Pittsburgh in those days really was the "pits." Ugh...

[mcar]

30. I'm a native keystone stater!

Love Pittsburgh (now).

Carnegie Mellon is an excellent school. My nephew is headed to Pitt.

[JI7]

27. last i read was California and interest in film

[CTyankee]

28. Hmm, USC?

[JI7]

29. i think she was also checking out new york

Nyu snd some other places.

Usc and nyu would both be good for film .

But this was a while ago and she is young so she could be thinking anything.

It would be nice to see her pick a non ivy league school though.

[Igel]

31. Things might have changed.

UCLA was more artsy and USC more tied in with Hollywood when I was out that way. NYU was more into socially activist films, IIRC.

That usually depends on who's on the faculty, though, and it's been over a decade.

[CTyankee]

33. another dtr in CA sez you are right...I believe it...she knows the "industry."

It kinda doesn't matter. She's Malia, dtr of a President.

[Peregrine]

32. Some university that caters to the 1%

No state U for any Obama.

[locks]

34. I hope they will consider the

University of Chicago where her dad taught and her mom worked and where she still has friends and family. Good school both for undergrad and grad work.

[mackerel]

36. She was looking at Stanford but I'm not sure if she's taken her SAT or ACT yet.