<p>I meant to say ‘would work hard to get into if I end up going to Cal’. Thank you for clearing up any possible misunderstandings or inferences.</p>
<p>(Usually, I’d pay more attention to my grammar but right now I’m much more distracted by college decisions. There may very well be grammatical errors in this post as well but I’d appreciate if we’d ignore those now since I’d much rather hear some feedback on what college I should choose.)</p>