hey, best of luck!
don’t compare yourself to others and do something you like.
if this scenario somehow happens, it’s really not the end of the world. i intitally got into none last cycle, but moved on relatively quickly thanks to support around me. no matter the result, keep performing as you would in school. i sent some updates, got off the waitlist in the summer, and attending one of my top choices now.
like others mentioned, prep schools aren’t everything. i would have been very happy to attend my local high school, but i wanted to have 4 years of hs in the u.s and my family would have needed to return to my home country at the end of the year. i still ponder about how i would have been in my local hs:)