Why is that I am jealous of students who got accepted into harvard,yale,princeton and nyu stern while my grades/transcipt are only sufficent for cuny/suny and maybe syracuse? I think I am lying to myself If I can even work on wall street of the front offices in the elite firms(YES the boring stuff is apparently very interesting for me). I also heard that if you did average on the sat and high school then the results are the same in college…It just seems banal and gloomy if my future is set in place. Has anyone did poorly on the sat but did well on the Gre? Anyone did average in high school but did well in college?
Jealously is such a wasteful emotion. The importance you place upon someone’s college is so supremely shallow. My degree is from one of those schools – that’s not a golden ticket to happiness. I know plenty of A holes with degrees from big name schools – whom I’d never want my daughter to date. You’ve idealized that way too much.
If you mope and whine through high school you will likely do the same in college with the same lackluster stats.
im not jealous of the college…I am jealous because these are target schools by big wall street firms/massive tech firms.
Ok: in my reply to you, switch out “college” for “job on Wall St or big tech firm” – same philosophy, friend.
There’s probably a ton of people who did not do well and were successful.
A lot of the CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies did not go to Harvard or Yale. They went to state schools which were “worse” than going to an Ivy League.
I had a friend who went to a SUNY. He worked his butt off and out of college, he is earning 200k a year.
Also, you can just go to Harvard Business school (by working your butt off in college) after you graduate from CUNY/SUNY/Syracuse, it’s entirely possible and many have been able to do that.
I got better grades and test scores in high school and college than my husband. I went straight to university, he started in community college and transferred later to the same university. He is the one who went on to grad school, (great grades there and graduated with honors-maybe he just needed to specialize) and he has a very successful career. Most of life is not taking standardized tests.
My dad went to a very small, not very well-known state school in PA. He couldn’t afford to go on college visits, so he just went to the cheapest school around. He worked several jobs in college and was paying off student loans for a long time. He now makes 350,000+
He did not score well on the SATs, had no notable connections, and had 8 siblings. For all of this and more he is one of my biggest heroes because he showed me that hard work means more than prestige.
Long story short, your standardized test scores and college don’t define you. Your ATTITUDE defines you. As others have said, if you hang on to this jealousy you probably won’t get too far. Just focus on YOU, and no matter where you go to college, you can do well for yourself:) good luck!
You won’t be successful unless you learn to write. A company that pays well would have no interest hiring someone who appears to have serious problems with basic writing. Instead of being envious, learn to write!