<p>if you keep shooting for those schools which are obviously out of your reach, you will exhaust yourself in HS, be rejected, and feel utterly worthless.</p>
<p>you do not need to go to one of those schools in order to have a successful life in America. If your parents decided to move here to send you to those schools, I’m sorry, but they were deluded. </p>
<p>You will not be able to pull off a 400-point SAT score improvement. You probably won’t be able to pull your grades up that high. Moreover, at this point, you would not be able to survive at those schools.</p>