Pressure for the Ivies

rickle1
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 23:38:23 +0000

Sorry you’re having these challenges. As other posters have said, it’s your life, not theirs. Hard lesson to learn but very valuable. The reality is you’ll be quite successful in life based on what YOU DO, not where you do it. There are many great schools with brilliant, high quality kids like yourself. Wherever you attend, you’ll find that group and chart your course. That can be done from a state school or a top private. Can’t tell you how many mega successful people I know that did undergraduate at state U. Some went on to Harvard Business School. Others became successful entrepreneurs without and advanced degrees.

The ivies basically are a crap shoot. Don’t let that define you either way. You likely “deserve” to get in, but so does the next person who will get declined.