<p>What you said HallMLuke, was really interesting… I am only competitive because I know that so many others are also competing towards one goal: success and happiness. </p>
<p>You put me in a room of ordinary people (of all ages), and I stand out. I am unique. I have an IQ of 136, I am in classes above everyone my age in my public high school, I have a talent for art–I wrote a two-hundred page book when I was nine in the course of a month and a half. It was written quite well for my age and I proceeded to seek a publisher to publish it. When I was a child I told my grandmother how old she would live to, I was could hold up conversations with people twice my age in kindergarten, and knew no difference between me and the adult in front of me excluding size and height. You and me, we stand in a room and we stand out–we are different and above average. We see this and seek out the above average schools, the education that will represent our intelligence… </p>
<p>The brightest child will instantly be compared to Harvard or Yale, by him or herself, or by the people around him or her. It doesnt matter what the child is looking for; a small town, a specific science program, a college by the beach, a place that is Religious or Non-Religious. Either way, this child will be viewed the same way. So now, we step into this room at our college, and we meet and greet people all around us. But the difference now, is that all these people are just as smart as you, and in this content you are now average.</p>
<p>I dont know if that was a good answer or not… but even though the thousands of people at our school may not be going to the lengths we are, thousands and tens of thousands of students are doing the same things as us all across the globe to ensure a college that they can be proud of, a college they can become successful from, a college that will guarantee them happiness. But we both know no one can guarantee these things. How will going to a community college and a private college change the level of your happiness just the same as going to a public or a private highschool? It has just become a societal view on things where all these businessmen and lawyers and wealthy people have gone to these great schools and the public view the admissions to this school as a paved road to glory. We dont consider the charisma that went into getting this job here, or the luck that we sold our stocks before they dropped or the hardships and late hours people went through to get where they are… I will still try extremely hard to get into a great college, because in a sense, it does better your chances of getting a job later in life, and does affect your income and lifestyle at times.</p>