I like your division into Type 1 and Type 2 criticisms. I think you're right about the fellowship demonstrating that university is another option (at least for

I like your division into Type 1 and Type 2 criticisms. I think you're right about the fellowship demonstrating that university is another option (at least for some people). When I asked Peter about his 20 under 20 program, here's what he told me: "It was 20 people. It was just 20 people. You have something on the order of 6 million people a year in the U.S. who graduate from high school. If you're saying that of the top 60,000, the top 1 percent let's say, are there 20 of those 60,000 who should perhaps not go to college--that does not seem like a terribly controversial statement. That the more talented you are, the more narrow the set of choices you should make? And that if you're a really smart person, the only thing in the world you can do is to go to Harvard? That certainly is an odd state for the world to be in, even though it's surprisingly close to the state we find ourselves in today."