That is what we eventually decided upon, too, CFK. DD gravitated to the grad students, professor, and post-docs in the lab during her summer research internship... at 14. shocked



I'm hopeful that placing her in an honors college setting will, as another poster indicated, provide her with a small-college-within-a-larger-full-service-research-university, and be the best of both worlds.

Short of MIT and the associated admissions frenzy, unbelievable annual costs, family upheaval, etc. with a 14yo in the eye of that storm, it seemed the best we could do.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.