Neither, it's due to real politik.

It's better to have world 'leaders' talking than not, so you bite the bullet and send them to Harvard.

How would anyone here know that? She's not even unde her real name but under a pseudonim.

Hardly anonymous if it's widely known.

What is widely known? What's her name? Where does she study?

Xi Mingze. Harvard. You don't know just because you don't really care about it. The info is on Wikipedia.

I don't think his daughter would have bad scores, in general, those kids would actually do well in school, not spoiled. but I also don't think many (not only Xi's daughter) political offsprings are qualified for the best universities if they were evaluated the same way as commons.