Is it important to have a mentor?

happy1
Mon, 02 Mar 2020 15:35:31 +0000

You have a number of posts showing you are dreaming about Ivy League schools. Why? You come off as prestige hunting.

Have you done your research? Do you understand that the Ivy League is a sports league and while all of the schools are excellent academically they have very different attributes? For example a person who loves the core curriculum at Columbia may not like Brown with no required courses, a person who loves the urban environment of Penn may not like the rural environment of Dartmouth, etc.

Please stop targeting any school or group of school as a freshman. It is just too early. Focus on being the best “you” that you can be. Focus on doing well in HS. Focus on activities you love and can make a contribution to. Focus on friends and family. Focus on learning and growing in your HS years. IMO these things will be more valuable in the long run.