<p>Do you ever just feel like a failure and start thinking that the best college you could get into is the crappy state ones?</p>
<p>I don't know... I'm just feeling stupid tonight.</p>
<p>I did before I was accepted to a few places</p>
<p>Failure is only a state of mine.</p>
<p>stanford just seems so far away :(</p>
<p>yeah, I get those feelings. But I did apply to Duke, Stanford, Harvey Mudd, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Olin and Tufts, so it's not surprising that I would feel insecure.
Thank God I was accepted to University of Colorado at Boulder.</p>
<p>where you get into college has nothing to do with being a failure or not. its mostly random luck.</p>
<p>ya dont get down on urself about something that isn't the end of the world. it's not all about where u get into college it's about the attitude u have once u get there and what u do with ur education/what you make of it. success is something different for everyone and it's something u define personally; it shouldn't be something u can measure with "societal benchmarks" like getting into an Ivy League School, being valedictorian, etc.</p>
<p>Musicallylatin:
you deserve to feel like a failure. AUNT MARGARET</p>
<p>I'll probably end up at UCLA, even if I get into Berkeley/Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>It's just too great a place.</p>
<p>I did, and was especially sad when i didnt get into the big state school, but then things got wayyyyyyyyyyy better </p>
<p>=]</p>
<p>Yes, oftentimes, infact..</p>
<p>Most of the time...sadly :/</p>
<p>IF I GET INTO MY STATE SCHOOL I WILL BE SUCH A FAILUR EOH MY GOD CLEARLY EVERYONE WHO ENDS UP AT STATE SCHOOLS IS UNINTELLIGENT AND WILL NEVER SUCCEED IN LIFE </p>
<p>IF I DON'T GET INTO AN IVY LEAGUE OR OTHER TOP 10 SCHOOL I WILL FEEL SOOOO EMPTY AND WORTHLESS~~~ l</p>
<p>^^^
Now that is just harsh....</p>
<p>I think Poseur is one of the few sane posters on CC. : )</p>
<p>^If so, may god help us all.</p>
<p>^ I agree.</p>
<p>But then again...
Racheal might just have a point.</p>
<p>I mean, I don't like SUNY schools, but I'm probably going to end up at Penn State University Park. It's in the top 50, so I don't really consider myself a failure, even though I'll always have a lust for Yale.</p>