<p>Right now I’m making a list of colleges I want to apply to, but I don’t know if I should even try to get into schools that I probably will get rejected from. I have good test scores and am involved in activities, but I don’t know if filling out all these applications to Ivy League schools is worth the time. What should I do?</p>
<p>Do it anyway, there usually are a couple of lucky ones that slip into the Ivy’s. There was this kid in my high school last year, a slightly above average kid. Really wasn’t anything Special, but he could play the French horn as good as anyone. Time came to apply to schools and he sent one to Harvard just for the heck of it. It turned out they needed an French horn player in the marching band. And this kid went to Harvard with a half scholarship. Maybe they’ll see your resume and find something they need. There are plenty of geniuses at Harvard, what they want is something out of the ordinary.</p>