Didnt michelle obama write her Princeton thesis about this?
Wonder why she didnt go to Howard?
Any one or more of a dozen reasons.
She was overqualified for Howard, and she didn't want to take the place of a more deserving/needy student.
At Howard, she'd be only one of a few thousand of black chicks, and it wouldn't feel right excelling in front of them, putting them all to shame, making them angrier and increasing the size of the boulders on their shoulders, and resenting her for scarfing up all hot guys.
At Princeton, she could prove Wilson wrong about segregation.
Princeton probably has better weather.
I could go on...