@Coloradomama . . . re, your last post…
But Harvard has the most naturally intelligent students in the world along with Cal Tech. Harvard students overwhelmingly fill HLS as well as YLS its rival, and I’m sure they fill JHU’s, Yale’s and its own SOM at the same rates. I know of a Harvard grad in mathematics that stepped right into a top grad E program and made a pretty seamless transition.
Based on these, Harvard would have to be a great place to attend for those who are undecided for careers. Are some attending H “not there to learn”? I’m sure there are, but if you consider that Stephen Hawking wasn’t a very good student at Oxford, this could similarly manifest boredom to those who might consider college to be a fairly rigid learning atmosphere as Dr. Hawking did. And I am not stating that a significant number of H students are of that same (human) intelligence that he possessed, but they are endued of an obviously high degree of (human) smarts.
So if OP with respect to his daughter(?) were to want to meet someone like the future creator of some killer application, then H all day every day against anyone except for maybe MIT. But a pre-deterministic pathway of medicine from its beginnings in Life Sciences premed, then state college or in this case USC will do for someone who is smart enough to gain entry to H.