Originally Posted by
Bostondevil
I was chatting with him a few days ago and I remarked that UVM turned out to be the perfect school for him. He disagreed. Then I said, "Yeah, the perfect school for you would have been Harvard but you never would have been able to get in." So, we settled on the truth, UVM was the best choice among the schools where it was both reasonable for him to apply and where he was accepted. I have known a lot of Harvard students in my time working there. Paddies would have been a hot knife through butter over there. Given his history, I told him to put a pin in Boston and he could apply anywhere that I could drive to in 4 hours. Burlington takes me 4 1/2 but that's because I need to make a stop. It fits within the radius. BC was his "reach" school as a transfer student, well, that and Duke because I made him apply. I genuinely thought he had a chance but it's probably for the best that he didn't get in because I probably would have insisted that he go and it wouldn't have been the best choice. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't fit in the radius but my parents are still in Durham. My brother is there too. And aimo. I needed to know somebody could go pick him up at the drop of a hat in case he had another episode like he did at Michigan State. He didn't. But it has still been a good idea to have him go somewhere I can get to in a car in an emergency.
Harvard has no students like Paddies and it's their loss. From what I can tell, neither does Duke. It's a shame.