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Here  Gabby Douglas  16-Year-Old Recruited HARD  By Black
College  8/9/2012 6:30 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF  16-year-old Gabby
Douglas is officially being recruited by one of the most
prestigious black universities in the country ... Spelman
College ... and TMZ has learned the school president has even
flown to London to get a leg up on the competition.  We've
learned ... Spelman -- an all-girl college in Georgia -- wants
Gabby in a bad way ... and sources at the University tell us the
Team USA gymnastics superstar has become the number 1 recruit
... by far.  In fact, the President of Spelman, Beverly Daniel
Tatum (not pictured below), went out to London and made sure
Gabby got a Spelman gift bag ... containing a congratulatory
note, school t-shirt and a CD containing a song produced by the
college.  0808_gaby_spelman_subTatum also released a statement
to TMZ ... in which she acknowledges the school would LOVE to
get its hands on the gold medal winner: