At the age of 13 Hillary helped analyze South Side Chicargo, where she found evidence of electoral fraud against Republican candidate Richard Nixon. This incident happened in 1960 prior to US Presidential elections.  

Hillary attended Wellesley College, where she was active in student politics and was elected senior class President before graduating in 1969.

Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rodham organized a two-day student strike and worked with Wellesley's black students to recruit more black students and faculty. On completion of her graduation, Hillary applied for Harvard Law School. She got through, but was repelled by a professor who told her “we don't need any more women at Harvard”. She entered took admission in Yale Law School. While at Yale, she served on the editorial board of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.