<p>Deep inside I felt that I could have survived at Harvard, getting C's and D's in all my classes, of course, but at the same time I understood that Harvard was out of my league, which is why I did not bother to apply. Not that I think I would have been accepted, of course, but at least I know for a fact that I didn't make the cut at a handful of Ivy league schools to which I was foolish enough to apply, so that's some relief. I swallowed my ego and settled for a second rate top 30 school. You know, the type of school Harvard students almost instinctually snicker at.</p>
<p>It's been over a year and I still feel inferior to Ivy league students, especially Harvard students. It's tough being a good student all my life just to find out that some admission committee didn't think I was good enough for their school. For all I know, they were probably right.</p>
<p>To this day, I still ask myself "why? why did I bother?" I mean, I can literally pinpoint the source of my depression to the moment I saw those thin envelopes that came in the mail. I feel like I wasted the best years of my life. I could have had so much fun in high school but instead chose to pursue an unrealistic dream :(.</p>
<p>Alright. I agree with you now. You have a personality disorder.</p>
<p>Why do you care? There is so much more to life than what school you go to. To be perfectly honest, I pity people who go to Harvard because I know most of them will never have a taste of reality.</p>
<p>^What’s this ‘taste of reality’ that you are referring to?</p>
<p>From what I saw of Harvard and other top schools, during my visits and overnight stays, people don’t exude a special aura or intimidate you with tremendous wisdom. They’re normal people, if there is such a concept.</p>
<p>To the OP, don’t fret, a top 30 school is better than the majority of this nation can get into. You still ended up in a good, respectable school where you can excel and meet life-long friends. Don’t worry yourself, and enjoy the next four years. Hard work does pay off, just remeber that! </p>
<p>You’re not inferior to Harvard students as a being and you shouldn’t keep thinking about them (or other Ivy students for that matter) for there are several thousand Harvard grads who have gone on to accomplish nothing “significant,” as you so desire. </p>
<p>On the off chance that this is a serious post, yes, you should seek serious professional help. It’s not normal to feel depressed about college admissions a year later. It’s REALLY not normal to feel inferior to Harvard students. What’s normal is to come up with ways to prove that Harvard students are inferior to you.</p>
<p>The line quoted above says it all to me. I don’t think any halfway intelligent person considers his high school years “the best years of [his] life” – college and the years right after it fit that description much better. So here you are in college, and all you can do is make yourself miserable thinking about the fun you could have had in high school if you weren’t trying to get good grades so you could go to Dartmouth? Give me a break! Give yourself a break!</p>
What’s normal is to come up with ways to prove that Harvard students are inferior to you.
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<p>It might be normal, but isn’t it lame?</p>
<p>People who come up with ways to prove that Harvard students are inferior to them, when they would have given an arm and a leg to be Harvard students themselves, are deceiving themselves.</p>
<p>I couldn’t deceive myself even if I wanted to.</p>
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<p>I’ve been a year in college and life so far doesn’t seem to be so much better than my high school years. At least in high school I had an illusion.</p>
<p>Check out the OP’s other threads. He feels inferior to lots of people. He doesn’t like to socialize or do any ECs. He doesn’t take advice, but does take lots of CC members’ time. He had been posting lots similar threads on College Life until a moderator closed the thread due to his history. Now, he appears to move his angst to this board.</p>
<p>Sheesh. Though I agree that you need help, this is something you should be able to resolve on your own.</p>
<p>To anyone else who is thinking along the same lines as the OP (but isn’t quite as far gone yet), please remember that you’re not automatically inferior to Harvard/Ivy students just because they attend a higher ranked school than you do. An admissions decision from a bunch of random strangers is in no way a legitimate valuation of your talents and accomplishments. Don’t let something like this determine your worth as a human being.</p>
<p>Of course, it follows that you shouldn’t feel superior to students from lower ranked schools.</p>
They’re normal people, if there is such a concept.</p>