Looking at the big scheme of things, I don’t think God has a Harvard in mind as a personal goal.  But maybe I’m wrong.

I just read a review of a book called God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America.  It’s about Patrick Henry College and I also found some interesting tidbits in this section from the book in a New Yorker article:
God and Country
A college that trains young Christians to be politicians.
The New Yorker/June 27, 2005

The author of the book, Hanna Rosin, is an Israeli born Jew who grew up in Queens.  She writes for the Washington Post about religion and politics.  Apparently Patrick Henry’s mission and activities got her interest.  It might be because it’s 50 miles from DC and the college has a successful record of importing students into the White House internship program along with other coveted political roles within the legislative branch.  Not to say that other homeschoolers don’t do the same.  They do; across the political board from ultra conservative to liberal.  They don’t do it under a "Harvard for Homeschoolers" umbrella however.

The San Francisco Chronicle reviewer, Jason Warshof, says this about the gist of the book:

At the heart of this book, though, are portraits of PHC students, from the "ultraconservatives" who follow the rigid Student Handbook to the letter, to the overachievers shooting (without irony) for the White House, to members of the "den of sin … [a] group of boys [who] had worked the roommate selection process to commandeer one wing of a dorm," into which they smuggled cigarettes and beer and where they hung a "Pulp Fiction" poster.

A "den of sin" or such will always display the ingenuity of young adults to find a way around their particular environment, if deemed necessary.  Pretty clever, even as I wonder if they didn’t have free will to decide which college, if any, they would attend.  Cigarettes, beer and such aren’t cool in the Patrick Henry College.  

I found this intriguing about the Patrick Henry female students:

Like the young men, Patrick Henry women are focused, ambitious and fiercely intelligent. And in Rosin’s perceptive interpretation, an inchoate feminism burns underneath their sense of propriety, a feminism they cannot always suppress.

I don’t know how they couldn’t be such, if most came from homeschooled backgrounds.  And I hope they don’t try to suppress their brain’s bounty  and wherewithal to do whatever they strive for in their lives. 

I think I’d like to read that book.  As a homeschooler, Rosin’s perspective and observations would be interesting to me.