<p>There is such an amazing array of colleges in the US, with some good and/or interesting ones being fairly easy to get into (Oregon, Colorado, Purdue, Kansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Michigan State, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, Miami (Ohio), etc.). And even if you can’t get into any of these, you go to a community college for a year or two, get good grades, and you can transfer to places like these with ease. So…no reason to be resentful of the narrow-minded folks who make posts and make it sound like your life is already over if you don’t get into a top-20 school in the Northeast or in California.</p>