I took the SSAT for the first time.

DevonAultOrBust
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:21:51 +0000

Hi @Moidin I’d concur that you’re getting worried prematurely. You don’t know that there are in fact kids getting all As around you. Somewhere there are, but that is a competition that is endless and, really, unwinnable. There are always going to be hundreds more kids with more As, slightly higher test scores or have them in a slightly different configuration than yours. Get a lot of As, but use your obsession to follow something you’re truly interested in. Be the best at that for its own sake. If you’re interesting, the schools will be interested in you (given that you’ve crossed a minimum if high academic threshold.)

You’re obviously super bright and driven, I’d suggest reading Peter Thiel’s Zero to One for how he got off the (commodity achievement driven) Stanford-Stanford-Law-clerking-etc. achievement track, and opened up fulfilling new professional avenues.

Good luck!