<p>@Lvillegrad: Note that I did not claim that “no 13 year old dreams of going to Harvard”…I merely remarked that I had never met one. Since you are from the Princeton area yourself, you were in the “clusters of kids” I mentioned…and if you went to Lawrenceville, even more so.</p>
<p>@MamaBug: I would be curious how the idea came to your child, if you feel like asking him.</p>
<p>If anything, the only colleges that are on my daughter’s radar right now are 1) University of Chicago, because they send her interesting marketing materials; 2) Deep Springs, because her father is fascinated by it and because it seems like a college version of Thacher; and 3) U Del because they have one of the only undergrad programs in a field she currently thinks is interesting.</p>