Best-Selling Author Jeff Selingo Reveals How to Come Up w/ Your 'Dream School' List - Exclusive Written Q&A on Oct 30 @ 7pm ET

In your book, you mentioned one of the benefits of going to a less prestigious university is having more confidence and less cutthroat competition, giving you a better chance of taking advantage of the opportunities available. Yet for high school, you argue that going to a less competitive high school has the drawback of not preparing you well for college. Do you believe these two points are contradictory?