re: #111 Jay C

Well, if anything, at worst it’s an example of the “legacy admissions” system, but wingnuts gotta nut, I guess…

(Though just from what I’ve read, it sounds like Malia Obama wouldn’t have much trouble getting into a top-notch school any. However, one does have to wonder if she would have such an easy time getting into Harvard if her name were, say, Malia Jones)

My white kids are really smart, but I don’t expect any of them to get into Harvard, and I don’t think the Obamas have anything to do with that.

Her chances probably would have been smaller if her dad had not become president, but I suspect the schools she’d have gotten to go to because of her parents financial success would have given her more opportunities than, say, my kids who are pretty smart. We just wouldn’t care as much.