<p>For some background info I'm a somewhat bright kid. Top 10% of my class in one of the most competitive HS in my state. I recently applied ED to an in-state school that I absolutely love, and I couldn't really picture going anywhere else.. It's a top 20 undergrad business school (major is business-economics) but the school itself isn't looked THAT highly upon. I'm also applying honors and will hopefully get a significant amount of merit aid so I'll only have to pay for room & board.</p>
<p>The thing I'm scared about is that a lot of my friends/classmates are applying/probably will be going to very elite universities. Places like MIT, Middlebury, Columbia, Rice, Northwestern, etc. They all, in a somewhat joking way, make fun of the state schools like the one I'm going to and a few others that, in reality, aren't bad colleges at all. I mostly ignored it because I love where I'm going to be attending, but it's starting to get to me. Almost like an inferiority complex; like where I'm going to school is all of a sudden bottom of the barrel compared to them. I try my best to only worry about myself but I can't help it.</p>
<p>Can anyone help me get over this problem? Anyone ever in a similar situation? It comforts me to think that they will all be paying over 200k for their undergrad, but still one can only think about that so much.
Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Your title and your message tell me 2 different things. Title - Your scared… Message - You feel like a wimp cause your “friends” bash your school.</p>
<p>I got some news for ya, YOUR FRIENDS WONT BE FRIENDS for much longer. Your going to a univ they are going to a univ. You are all seperating. By the time you see them again, hopefully they will have grown up. If not, and they still bash your school, then maybe you should reevaluate the manner in which you decide who is a friend or not. </p>
<p>If you love this business school as much as you lead us to believe then, whats the problem? You feel inferiour because rich boy has his mommy and daddy pay for MIT or Columbia, come on man. Letting people have this sort of effect on your OWN PERSONAL decisions is, kinda, weak minded. </p>
<p>Hmm, maybe my tone was a bit off. I’m not sad or anything; I’m not getting bullied. I’m just worried: are they going to get that much better of an education than I am and/or are they going to be that much better off than myself in life?
Of course they’ll have a leg up for going to a brand name private school but is it THAT much that everyone makes it out to be? My dad tells me not to worry about it; he has plenty of clients that went to 3rd tier public schools that make in the millions per year and he tells me he also gets plenty of people interviewing for jobs that came from the ivies that just aren’t suited for what he wants. But since I’m doing business does it affect me more than say, engineering or architecture? I want to go to a top tier school for an MBA later on and it will be easier to afford having not dropped 200k on a private school beforehand.</p>
<p>Also to clarify the bashing: it’s more like a “ohhhhh, your school’s average ACT score is only a 26” or for people going to other public schools “have fun being on a campus with 50,000 people.” Just stupid trivial stuff like that.</p>
<p>Just stop caring. I think bigtexas was a little blunt but really, don’t let it get to you. That might be easier said than done but it’s what will work.</p>
<p>Also note that they probably have some major insecurities if they feel the need to put down others’ schools.</p>
<p>e: Either ignore it or just say “yep, it sure is only a 26!” if you feed the trolls they’ll come back for more. You have to starve them of their fuel, like a fire, and then they’ll stop.</p>
<p>But, theres no way, literally NO way we here, or your “friends” can have the slightest idea of what the future holds for any of you. I wish i could assist you more. But maybe you just need to ride this out, and listen to your parents. Surely you don’t want to listen to your “friends” and follow them to Rice… You need to be your own leader.</p>
<p>hahaha okay, starving them of their fire sounds like a comical/good idea. Sometimes I think that students in high school are almost brainwashed that it’s ivy league or nothing or how that a school’s ACT average is of any relevance in the spectrum of life; It’s ridiculous. </p>
<p>Thanks for the tips, I’m not gonna let it bother me since I know I’ll be happy where I’m going!</p>
<p>Your friends are tools if they do that. I also went to one of the best public high schools in my state, which sends 40+ to HYPSM yearly. And yet nobody would have dreamed of knocking the in-state options. I’m sure your school will be great for you…and if you want to get them to knock it off without getting personal, you can just make the point that it might be insensitive to keep abusing the school that might be the only option, financially, for some of their classmates. (That was certainly the case for a lot of mine; the people who got into HYP were set, but the people who got into Rice and USC and Northwestern and NYU and Reed? A lot of them chose to stay in-state, because the excellent private-type schools often would’ve involved a lot of loans.) That should help make your friends stop, because nobody wants to look like the rich tool.</p>
<p>Or if you want to be sassier, imply that they might not want to be hating on the in-state until they have offers from elsewhere.</p>
<p>Alright i am a senior and i am debating whether to drop ap computer science. if i do i will only have 4 academic classes which would be ap physics, ap calculus bc, ap econ, and ap literature. but does it look bad if i only have 4 classes as a senior. my overall gpa is a 4.04.</p>
<p>Wow, your friends are kind of dicks. At my school nobody acts like that, whether they went/will go to brown, UND or MIT, or a state school. Though in all fairness that’s probably because they don’t know USNWR exists.
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