<p>Well, I know young people with friends who aspire to cool colleges (MIT is probably the most aspired to college among the young people I know best), but they also know that they have to challenge themselves as teenagers to have cool choices like that. My son, part of that circle of MIT-liking young people I know, became interested in Yale by attending a Yale regional information session a few years ago, one evening when I was busy with another meeting. This year, he and I attended another Yale meeting together. Yale does a GREAT job with its road shows, and definitely makes the case that young people looking for a cool college experience should apply. But the crush of applicants means that someone who aspires to Yale had best work hard while in high school. </p>
<p>See </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html[/url]”>Paul Graham; </p>
<p>for good advice for students who are turned off by high school (by an author with three Ivy League degrees). </p>
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