Michelle Obama’s College Experience Is All Too Familiar for Minority Students
“Obama arrived on campus earlier than most other students. She had been identified as a good candidate for a three-week orientation program ‘meant to close a ‘preparation gap’’ for certain incoming freshmen—specifically, low-income and minority students. But there are some things even a head start can’t prepare students for. ‘Princeton was extremely white and very male. There was no avoiding the facts,’ she writes. ‘If during the orientation program we’d begun to feel some ownership of the space, we were now a glaring anomaly—poppy seeds in a bowl of rice.’”