[bvw]

Why the Indonesian passport? To travel to Pakistan more easily. And then also to get into Columbia as a foreign exchange student . It might have been easier for him, perhaps the admissions requirements were relaxed for foreign students.

Obama traveled to Pakistan in 1981. Obama transferred to Columbia in 1981.

[Sherman Logan]

Obama didn’t need to pose as a foreign student to get into Columbia. He was a neat, clean, articulate black kid with probably at least reasonably good grades.

Colleges would fall all over themselves to admit him.