<p>Practically everyone gets rejected at least once in their life. Even people who are utter geniuses can be rejected. Even if someone ended up going to an Ivy League for college could end up failing at their job later in life. Similarly, you could end up NOT going to an ivy league and being at the top of the world later in life. I’ll give you an example that always keeps me from giving up. My uncle went to a pretty decent school in India when he was a kid. He was at the top of his class. When he applied for undergrad in India, every school rejected him for some insane reason so he ended up at a community college. Even at college, he remained at the top of his class. For graduate school, he decided to go to America. The only school that took him was Texas A&M. He excelled there and now he works at a very senior position in Microsoft earning more than many of his elite college-attending friends ever did. Failure teaches you some important lessons. Maybe it’s a good thing you didn’t get accepted into your first choice schools. I didn’t get accepted into Johns Hopkins or the University of Chicago either. But it’s not the end of the world. Work hard and you’ll get somewhere, trust me. Rejection doesn’t last forever.</p>