<p>How many people here have been expected to go Ivy League since childhood? I hear all these stories about parents who dress their babies in Harvard sweatshirts, do campus tours at age eight, etc. Anyone here have that experience, and are you actually going to the school of your parents’ choice?</p>
<p>HAHAHA. I didn’t even know what the “Ivy League” was until high school. Hell, when I heard that, I thought it referred to ALL top colleges. My mom didn’t even expect me to graduate high school let alone go to college so no I’m not going to a school of my parents’ choice.</p>
<p>I was (am?) expected to go to Notre Dame, my father’s alma mater. I was always very excited about going there, as well, though that has changed considerably in the last few years.</p>
<p>Who knows? It might still happen.</p>
<p>I think it’s funny because… my parents went to public schools and told me since I was young to just do my best and go wherever I wanted.</p>
<p>My desire for H was all me.</p>
<p>My parents met at the University of Chicago, where I grew up. The Ivy League was never mentioned. When I was a kid, I wanted to go to MIT (I saw the special on PBS about the robotics tournament and thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen).</p>
<p>I wanted to grow up and be a kite when I was little.</p>
<p>“parents who dress their babies in Harvard sweatshirts, do campus tours at age eight, etc.”</p>
<p>Those parents need better lives.</p>
<p>‘Rice University’ was drilled into me rather than Harvard, though I was often told that Rice was in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>I was first introduced to Harvard when reading books from professors who taught there; I thought to myself that instead of reading their books, I could be learning under them, and thereupon my desire arose.</p>
<p>I wasn’t expected to do anything lol, let alone apply to HARVARD! I went to a very modest primary school, and somehow managed to earn a scholarship to a prestigous private high school, at which I never received any valedictorian awards, such as Dux for instance. That added to the fact that we have never sent a student directly out of graduation to an Ivy, means that no one expected me to apply (barely anyone knows though), and being accepted would probably be more of a surprise than me returning to do Year 12 again!!! I am in Australia though, so it’s a bit different for me to you guys.</p>
<p>i wanted to smoke a lot of weed like the movie with meathod man about harvard…</p>
<p>All the guys in my family are <em>encouraged</em> to go to military academies: mainly West Point and the Naval Academy. I should say pushed from a very very early age.</p>