Ivy colleges, what does it take?

MWolf
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:08:38 +0000

@rishim213 Acceptance to an Ivy League college is not a very good goal, because it’s not a goal at all.

Nobody has the ambition to be accepted to flight school, which ends once they get the acceptance letter. You go to flight school to be able to fly an airplane, to be a professional pilot, etc. Nobody has an ambition to go to the gym which does not go further than ending up standing inside the gym. An ambition to “be accepted to an elite university” is no different.

Acceptance to college is a stop on the way, not the final goal. College is not just the acceptance (despite the inordinate amount of attention this receives in CC), it’s the four years of college, and the years following college.

Take your high school years to learn what you want and need from college. There are many possible pathways for you to follow, in order to have a fulfilling and interesting life. Only a small fraction of these paths go through an Ivy League undergraduate degree (if any).