Wouldn't surprise me that Harvard wouldn't take her unless she took some remedial courses first, even a cushy liberal arts major with sympathetic professors might be well beyond her skillset at Harvard.
It just seems that there’s more to this than meets the eye. I don’t see Malia as some do-gooder who wants to spend a year helping those less fortunate before she embarks on her college career. As I said before, most kids her age can’t wait to get off to college. Something else is at play here.