<p>Calm down! 
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<p>There are so many amazing non-ivy schools. Think about NYU, Cal, GWU, Duke, Stanford, I could easily go on. I’m applying to my state school, and that’s where I’d go if I got accepted. It’s highly competitive but obviously public and I’m absolutely in love with the atmosphere. I don’t doubt that I have the intelligence for ivy, but it just doesn’t interest me and never really has. I know that the environment at my state school will end up being what’s best for me, and you need to do what you know is best for you. If that’s ivy? Then it’s ivy. But your life isn’t going to come crashing down on you if you don’t get in. I don’t think I’m going to end up starving on the side of a highway in a box for not going to Harvard, and I don’t think you will either.</p>
<p>I couldn’t possibly empathize, as my parents are both white and uneducated and never even thought twice about taking an interest in my education. I think you’re lucky, but you can only do what’ best for you.</p>