You know, because her life is hard and she needs a break.
Via Washington Post:
The wait is finally over. On Sunday, the White House announced that eldest daughter Malia Obama will attend Harvard University.
But the Sidwell Friends senior, 17, will not be heading to Cambridge, Mass. this coming fall.
In a statement released by the East Wing, President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama announced that Malia “will take a gap year before beginning school.” This means she will attend Harvard in the fall of 2017 as a member of the Class of 2021.
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In September, President Obama shared some advice he had given college-bound Malia: Don’t worry too much about which school you choose — advice that the rest of the world has completely ignored.
[Imagine seeing ‘Malia Obama’ on a college-admission application]
The where-will-she-go fever hadn’t died down since Malia made headlines in 2014 by wearing a Stanford University T-shirt on a bike ride with her dad. The wild guessing game was immediately on, with first-family watchers piecing together clues and parsing her visits to more than a dozen colleges. Would she attend any of her parents’ alma maters? Head to California to get a slice of West Coast living? Or stay closer to the District, where the post-White House Obamas will park until Sasha, 14, graduates from high school?