Yes,  many want to see Obama's college records for grades and courses (as with G.W.  Bush and others).  But in Obama's case, the primary reason to see his  college applications is to learn whether the president applied for college in  the U.S. as a foreign student.

Why  should the public want to confirm that Obama did not register as a foreigner  while not having the same concern for other candidates?  Read  on.

Most  of the basic records of Barack Obama's past -- vital, hospital, medical,  education, passport, draft registration, et al. -- are guarded as securely as  the gold at Fort Knox.  Notably, two documents -- elementary school and  Selective Service registrations -- were obtained by independent citizens.   And Breitbart.com independently obtained an interesting biographical  brochure produced in 1991 by Obama's literary publicist.

The  Associated Press (AP) was able to obtain a copy of Obama's elementary school  registration from the Fransiskus Assisi School in Jakarta, Indonesia in  2007.

And  Stephen Coffman, a retired Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, obtained a  copy of Obama's Selective Service registration  form via a FOIA request just days prior to the 2008  election.

From  the 2012 Breitbart  discovery we learned that Mr. Obama presented himself in 1991 as "born in  Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."  From the AP  discovery we learned that Barack Obama was registered for school in Jakarta  as a citizen of Indonesia named Barry Soetoro.  And from the Selective  Service registration form we learned that the same form had been  forged.

Barack  Obama lived in Islamic Indonesia as Barry Soetoro with his mother and  stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, and attended school in Jakarta from ages 6 to 10.   It's beyond amazing that the general public is not aware of that fact.   Last Thanksgiving I was with my in-laws and was surprised to learn that  they had never heard that Obama lived in Indonesia as Barry Soetoro.  And  they are not uneducated people.

The  "mainstream" media do not want to touch those facts.

The  big question is whether little Barry was adopted  by his stepfather, who was a citizen of Indonesia.  There is reason to  believe that he was and that in order to have been enrolled in public school in  Indonesia, Barry had to be a citizen.  Aaron Klein of WND.com notes  that "[a]fter attending the Assisi Primary School, Obama later was enrolled  at SDN Menteng 1, an Indonesian public school."

That  Obama might have been a citizen of Indonesia and later presented himself as a  foreign student in the U.S. is no "birther" conspiracy theory.  It's the  gravamen of the college records question.