<p>Good luck. </p>
<p>A lot of great schools with great undergrad research opportunities would give you a ton of merit aid (my nephew researched neuropeptides at a Big Ten school). I get the sense you’re wedded to the Harvard/Princeton thing, so I wish you the best of luck.</p>
<p>I totally understand why you don’t want to go to Lehigh and bump into Dad all the time, but you should cast a wider net, just my 2 cents.</p>