from THE OBAMA FILE. FAMILY
In August, 1961, she enrolled in a University of Washington extension course. Between August, 1961 and March 1962, she enrolled in a total of four extension courses at the University of Washington, earning a total of 20 credits for her work in those courses, no small feat, considering that graduation required 180 credits, and the typical full time student earned 45 credits a year.
It was a curious academic choice. Why would she enroll in extension courses at the University of Washington when she had found herself intellectually stimulated during her previous year of studies at the University of Hawaii?
In 1962, Anna, as a single mother, enrolled in the UW for spring quarter and lived in an apartment on Capitol Hill.
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaFamily.htm
the information I quoted from THE OBAMA FILE re Stanley Ann Dunham was sourced from the Chicago Tribune, the link is no longer extant. I believe most of the Chicago Tribune articles re Dunham have been removed.
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1729524,00.html
“...She spent her high school years on a small island in Washington, taking advanced classes in philosophy and visiting coffee shops in Seattle. “She was a very intelligent, quiet girl, interested in her friendships and current events,” remembers Maxine Box, a close high school friend. Both girls assumed they would go to college and pursue careers. “She wasn’t particularly interested in children or in getting married,” Box says. Although Stanley was accepted early by the University of Chicago, her father wouldn’t let her go. She was too young to be off on her own, he said, unaware, as fathers tend to be, of what could happen when she lived in his house.
After she finished high school, her father whisked the family away again—this time to Honolulu, after he heard about a big new furniture store there. Hawaii had just become a state, and it was the new frontier. Stanley grudgingly went along yet again, enrolling in the University of Hawaii as a freshman...”