“As an aside, do anyone other than American kids get infatuated with institutions of higher education?”
@PurpleTitan Plenty of British kids get infatuated with Oxford or Cambridge, especially as they are far more dominant in the upper echelons of business, politics, journalism, etc than say Harvard or Stanford in the US, and you may spend a lot of time preparing for the interviews. Have you seen “The History Boys” (an Alan Bennett play/film, brought back a lot of memories for me as it’s a pretty good representation of Oxbridge admissions in the 1980s)?