I think a lot of folks have tried to be patient with you, but MOST people who have have the extraordinary good fortune to have been admitted to one of the ten best universities in America and one of the finest in the world don’t sit around worrying about nearly meaningless distinctions between who is first, fourth, or seventh. And I doubt many Columbia students think their lives are over because they aren’t going to MIT.
For your sake and Duke’s, I hope you get off one of those Ivy wait lists. The branding of the bad basketball league is obviously very important to you.