<p>Why do you say that no 13-year old dreams of going to Harvard (or a similar school)?</p>
<p>At 13, and even younger, I dreamed of going to Princeton. I grew up just a few miles from it and it was always there as the place where the smartest kids (which I thought of myself as) would of course want to go. Part of it might have had something to do with the association in my mind of Einstein with Princeton.</p>
<p>That belief extended until my senior year of high school when they were the only college to reject me. 
I had to make due with my choice of Yale, MIT and Cornell (choosing Yale).</p>