<p>“Out of curiosity, when your kids were younger, did you envision them going to Harvard and Yale? When they were 8 or 10, did you make a connection between your kids and the Ivies? What were your hopes, dreams, expectations?”</p>
<p>When my kids were younger, I thought of excellent schools for each stage of the education i.e best affordable primary with values, best secondary. As they entered middle school, their personalities began to evolve. My son thrived in a a good academic environment but loved sports. Sports was his motivation for success including academics so his choice of colleges included Duke, Stanford, Columbia, UCLA, UCB, He is now studying Engineering at one of those. For my daughter, she is strictly an academic with sports only as a part time. She loves community work and is very thorough. One of her teachers said that being a medical doctor (her career choice) would be a waste of her talent as she should be in research. I think she can do both. Anyway, while applying to schools, she applied to only small to medium colleges unlike her her brother who wanted medium to large. She has already gotten two ivy likelies and is waiting on other schools.
For me, I would be happy to have her at any of the colleges she applied but every one thinks she should wait for H before making up her mind. To some extent I agree but why H? What is so unique about H?</p>