<p>Ok Padre
I agree totally with you:
“for the kid that can benefit from an Andover … it is a mistake to turn down … reduce their likelihood of getting into Harvard or Yale”. </p>
<p>But, for the same reason that one should not go to Harvard/Yale to get into Med School, etc. One should go to High School for the best (1) education and (2) learning experience that one can get. Then if you do well, any college will be easy to get into. Same for college prior to grad school and then life. I totally disagree with the “ticket punchers” that have their life planned out for them from grade school.</p>
<p>Maybe except for foreign service and CIA is exeter.Yale still the key?</p>
<p>And I thought Harvard was the “settle for” not getting into Stanford?</p>