Yes, we reallly do need to go see U of R. A friend of mine attended many years ago and did not like the location at all, finding it too suburban, so I suspect it’ll be a no for my kid, but it does sound like it has some great opportunities.
Yale and Harvard are just not realistic for him. He just doesn’t have the impressive accomplishments or even the GPA that the T5 or so schools expect. His school typically sends about ten kids to each one of those, but they’re usually from the top 5% of the class or so. My kid is definitely not.