Malia Obama Makes Time's 'Most Influential Teens' of 2015 List
Although both of President Barack Obama's daughters were featured on Time's 2014 "Most Influential Teens" list, this year only one of the first daughters made the cut.
Time revealed on Tuesday that 17-year-old Malia Obama was selected as one of the most influential teenagers in the country this year. Meanwhile, her younger sister Sasha, 14, was left out.
"The older First Daughter is now a full-fledged cultural icon," the magazine said in the list. The teen's "fashion choices and college visits (most recently, to Brown University) routinely make headlines."
This marks the third consecutive year that Malia has appeared on the annual list. Meanwhile, Sasha only appeared in 2014.
Malia joins other notable teens that made the list this year, including Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim student who was arrested in September, when he brought a homemade clock to his Texas high school that was mistaken for a bomb. Also on the list are Jaden Smith, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and reality television star Kylie Jenner.
The college-bound Malia Obama also received an apology from Brown University students on Tuesday, after some students leaked photos of her at a campus beer pong party during a visit to the Ivy League school earlier this month. The pictures went viral, even though there was no evidence that she partook in the game or underage drinking.
"Brown University had no chill when Malia Obama came to visit," wrote "The Brown Daily Herald" in an editorial. "The motivation to take these pictures was obvious: Being at a party with the president's daughter was an exciting, unexpected moment that many of us wanted to share with our friends. We often do not think about our tweets and Snapchats reaching anyone besides our friends and followers, and certainly not news outlets with wide circulation like BuzzFeed."
The editorial added that most of the Ivy League's student body found it disappointing that students had a "lack of chill" during Malia's visit.
"Malia did not choose to grow up in the White House, and it is unfair that everything she does at just 17 years old is subject to harsh scrutiny," the editorial read. "While the chances of her selecting Brown have probably decreased since the publication of those articles, if she does ever come back to Brown, hopefully next time we will have more chill."
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