you know what's racist af? People implying that Malia got into Harvard due to her last name.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

124. Only 5.8% of the top students in this country who apply get

into Harvard. The smartest girl I know didn't get into Harvard undergrad even with her father's legacy. She got into a few other top schools, chose William and Mary, and was later accepted into Harvard Law School. (This girl was valedictorian of her elite prep school, one of the top high school debaters in the country, and a competitive swimmer on the state level.)

The absolutely brightest students in the country should all get into all the Ivies, but they don't. One student might get into Harvard, while receiving rejection letters from the others. One might get into Yale and Princeton, while not getting into Harvard. Many top notch students with extremely impressive applications won't get into even one Ivy League school because there's only so many slots.

Obviously, Malia met the minimum standards to get into Harvard, and when I type "minimum" I mean no such ordinary "minimum!" Most of us will never meet those requirements. She's a smart, very accomplished young woman girl who has had the advantage of an excellent education. So have many other students. There's no way we could ever know if having a president for a father closed the deal for her, but I don't think Harvard would have considered Malia if they didn't think she would be successful student and an asset to the school.