<p>Pizzagirl, I’m not making a judgment on Vanderbilt at all, and I don’t really have an opinion on Vanderbilt vs. Duke, or anything like that. My own kid came within a whisker of deciding to go to graduate school at Vanderbilt, and honestly I was looking forward to bar-hopping on Broadway with him. All I am saying is that the numbers aren’t there for any general phenomenon of kids turning down Harvard for Vanderbilt. There simply aren’t enough kids who turn Harvard down for anywhere, and there’s lots of evidence that the lion’s share of such kids go to a veritable handful of colleges, not including Vanderbilt OR Duke, or for that matter Chicago, Michigan, or any other place I happen to like.</p>