<p>To a great extent it doesn’t matter whether you go to your dream school or any particular school, for that matter. What matters is what you do at the school you go to. So let’s cut from fantasy and abstraction to you and the concrete. It will come down to what YOU are willing to do when you get to a college. There are a ton of distractions, and a 3.4 MIGHT suggest that you have been subject to distractions in the recent past. Find a school where you are likely to do your best, and then do it. Whether that’s USC or the Little Sisters of the Poor, just do it.</p>