Let me guess, because she’s black?

Via ABC News:

First Lady Michelle Obama attended two of America’s finest schools – Princeton University and Harvard Law School.

But on Tuesday she told a group of underprivileged Washington, DC high schoolers – many of whom are hoping to be the first in their families to go to college — that she once faced many of the same challenges and doubts as they do.

“I was willing to do whatever it took for me to go to college,” Mrs. Obama said. “Get this – some of my teachers straight up told me that I was setting my sights too high. They told me I was never going to get into a school like Princeton. Nobody was going to take my hand and lead me to where I needed to go. Instead, it was going to be up to me to reach my goal. I would have to chart my own course.”

Speaking to sophomores at Bell Multicultural High School, Obama talked about riding the city bus across Chicago an hour each way to high school, forming close relationships with her teachers and administrators, pursuing leadership opportunities, and studying to have the strongest academic record possible so that she could attend her dream school – Princeton.