A dozen schools down but just 1 will get Obama's daughter Malia as college freshman next fall

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She tells them to do their homework because picking a college is an individual decision.

She could just as well have been talking to her older daughter.

Seventeen-year-old Malia Obama is expected to head to college next fall with the Class of 2020

Malia is among U.S. high school seniors who are nervously taking standardized tests, completing college admissions applications, filling out financial aid forms and writing essays. And that's before months of waiting to find out if they got into their dream school.

Malia has visited at least a dozen public and private schools, mostly on the East Coast. They include Princeton and Columbia, her parents' alma maters.

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