Article: Chelsea wings her way west. (Chelsea Clinton decides she will attend Stanford University)(Brief Article)

She chooses an elite college far from home--Stanford

FOR HILLARY CLINTON, IT WAS A tough piece of news. Last week Chelsea, her only child, announced that she would pursue her college degree some 8,000 miles from home. Chelsea, a 12-year-old National Merit Scholarship finalist with an interest in medicine and a passion for ballet, had offers from, among others, Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Solid options all--academically stellar, and close enough to home for weekend laundry runs. But the first daughter had other ideas: come fall, she'll attend Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif. Friends say the First Lady sometimes tears up when discussing how far Stanford ...

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