Is this a good list of universities to apply to?

[Pizzagirl]

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I apologize for sounding like an ignoramus. I was just peeved at the fact that my extremely hard work will not get me into a top 20 school undergrad and I hastily had commented back without analyzing what I had been saying.

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<p>There isn’t enough room at the top 20 schools for all the kids who either want to go there, or “deserve” to be there. Such is life. You seem very entitled.</p>

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Anyway, I have not won a national competition but I got a request to be an intern at Goldman Sachs and J.P Morgan (I took the the offer from Goldman.) and I helped some associates with managing cash flow. I also gave advice to a trader on a few stocks and it brought him 50K (which I sadly did not take credit for from my supervisor when I interned)

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<p>So you have well-to-do parents with connections. Great. Did you learn anything from this? Does this make you interesting in any way other than having-parents-with-connections?

And I am not rich. Or at least I don’t consider myself to be… 400,000 a year combined between both parents is not rich to me. Someone who saves and invests and has his money work for him/herself, is. But I digress.

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<p>You need a dose of reality. $400K a year is indeed well-to-do, and if you don’t know or acknowledge that, a very bad attitude will come through in your essays and personal statements.</p>