[Hot Tabasco]

My nephew turned down Harvard, Duke and Princeton and instead went to a small school in Mass. called Williams College......The reason? Along with his academics, his school was a private school that won the Michigan class B state hockey championship and he was an all state defenseman. The above mentioned schools wanted him to play hockey for them but couldn't guarantee him a starting position in his freshman year.

Williams gave him the guarantee and while his high school academics would have allowed him to enter Williams as a Junior, he went the full four years, played hockey, got a great undergrad education and had a ball.

He then went to Europe and spent a year playing semi-pro hockey then came home and entered University of Michigan's medical school......(they were filled that first year thus his sebatical to europe)......

[1010RD]

Which is, in education, about as close as you can get to the free market customization clients (i.e. students) really want.

What a great story of personal liberty and self-defined happiness. How does it turn out? Does he become a doctor or is the work still in progress?