<p>Did anyone else feel like they were aiming too high for colleges. It just seems like from my high school i haven't seen anybody go to a great college, it makes me feel like im aiming too high. If nobody goes to great colleges from my school does that mean that colleges will think lesser of me? Does or did anybody else feel this way?</p>
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<p>A lot of times this is just because they don’t apply. Real life isn’t like College Confidential…in the grand scheme of things most people just want to commute to a local college, and they don’t even try to do anything else.</p>
<p>It doesn’t mean that no one would get into a good college if they did apply, and colleges certainly won’t think badly of you solely because you come from a school that doesn’t send many people to top colleges. If anything, accepting you would help them create socioeconomic diversity. </p>
<p>You will be judged in the context of the opportunities that were available to you…if you failed to take advantage of those opportunities, you may be aiming too high. (This is why I sometimes think I’m aiming too high. But I’m not really, because I only have one “reach for everyone” school on my list.)</p>
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<p>Sometimes, I feel like I am aiming too high for colleges as well. I remember when I talked to my guidance counselor, she thought I was aiming too high. I talked to my guidance counselor about colleges. I was planning to take as many AP classes as possible for my senior year to raise my GPA to go to my dream colleges, but my counselor thought it was too much. She thought that I should take on a more realistic aim. I wasn’t too sure about that. I wanted to go to colleges like Boston University, Boston College, Brandeis, Cornell, Northeastern, and Yale.</p>
<p>On a different opinion, my English honors teacher for my junior year believed I could reach my dreams if I tried hard enough. I can’t just keep wishing for my goals; I need to work hard and focus on my goals. Sometimes I would tape a paper with my goals to a wall in front of my bed so I could wake up and sleep with these goals in mind to keep my focus on my goals. I tried it with short-term goals, and it worked for me.</p>
<p>Colleges will not think less of you just because people from your schools did not go to great colleges. I think most colleges think about you yourself instead of judging you based on which school you went to. I believe you can go to a great college someday. Just work hard, have fun in learning, take extracurriculars that you enjoy such as sports and/or school clubs, and you can do it.</p>
<p>There are three important words “first time” and “start”. Some people say I am really aiming high. Yes it’s true. If I don’t get into anywhere, I will have wasted 1.5 years of my life. But what if I get in? When I get older. 60 or 65 (if I remain alive by that time) I don’t want to regret “hell, why didn’t I try?” “What would be the results?” I think I will get the answer in 7 months.
I prefer to aim high rather than waiting and asking the same question for 42/47 years. And 1.5 years is much less than 50 years.</p>
<p>This thing applies to everyone. And there is no sole exception of it.</p>
<p>and yes, I will be first from my region to even apply to any US universities.</p>
<p>I feel the same way. Last years best students went to penn state and grove city. It bothers me.</p>