<p>What I would want to know about Yale, in order to determine whether it “mattered,” is whether your husband’s experience there has had an impact on his leisure time, his concern for the wider world, his avocations. I have always told my kids that you don’t attend a school like that in order to be successful, but in order to be interesting and engaged with the world. I know lots of successful people from various colleges and universities. It does seem to me that those who come out of schools that could be described as an intellectual banquet (and these are not just the Ivies, of course) tend to have very rich lives in their off-hours, reading extensively, writing, traveling. Now, this may be truer for people our age, as many of the younger ones seem to work 24/7 and not have any off-hours! </p>
<p>One reason my d has backed off of pre-med, despite the fact that she is doing very well and loves science, is that she says there are already far more fascinating courses at Princeton than she will ever be able to take, and if she has to do the pre-med sequence she will miss out on way too many of them. I guess that’s another topic.</p>