Malia Obama to attend Harvard in 2017 after taking gap year

May 02, 2016 16:12

US President Barack Obama's daughter Malia will take a year off after graduating from high school in June before attending Harvard University in 2017, the president and his wife said in a long-awaited announcement.

Malia, the eldest of the Obamas' two daughters, is a 17-year-old senior at Sidwell Friends, an exclusive private school in the District of Columbia that helped educate another first daughter, Chelsea Clinton, in the 1990s. Malia's younger sister, Sasha, 14, is a freshman at Sidwell. Malia is set to graduate from high school in June. She turns 18 on the fourth of July.

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