I share your perspective. He got invitations to do early application at both Harvard and Yale (and yes I know that an invitation to apply is not a promise of ac

I share your perspective. He got invitations to do early application at both Harvard and Yale (and yes I know that an invitation to apply is not a promise of acceptance) but it clearly suggests that they think he could make a go of it there. I also told him that it wouldn't really matter if they didn't accept the cc credits. I used to work remotely with firms in the Boston area. I would travel to Boston several times a year and worked with a number of Harvard and other Ivy League graduates. I tried to convey to my son the value of the network that Harvard supplies. Not only your own student cohort, but also the uniformly high quality of world-class professors and alumni who are in positions of leadership and influence. But for some reason he wanted to go to school close to home and chose our state university. At some point I decided that me pushing was not worth the tension and that he could get a good education at a state university. Assuming that he will go to graduate school, maybe he will try for some of the elites schools at that point.