<p>I go to a very competitive high school. As a freshman I was one of those I'm-going-to-get-a-4.0-GPA-and-go-to-an-ivy-league people. I just didn't follow through. I had a 3.6 by the end of junior year and other mediocre (by CC's standards) stats. I just always equated going to a top college with a high salary and success in life, which I know is not necessarily the case but everyone around me is going to Harvard or UPenn or Northwestern or NYU. I know it's dumb but in a way I feel subpar. I either can't get in or can't afford it.</p>
<p>I did get into a great program - free tuition at city college and other benefits - but in the end, it's still city college while the guy who sits next to me in history is going to an Ivy and will get the jobs I won't come close to.</p>
<p>Sorry if it's whiny. I'm just in a slump. /rant</p>
<p>There’s worse fates than a free ride to City college. Five years after you graduate hardly anyone will care where you went to college. Ten years no on will care. Also Grad school is a great equalizer. Good City college grades will get you in a good Grad school, assuming that’s the path that you’re headed? GL</p>
<p>I do plan on going to graduate school, but I have anxiety about being stuck in some low salary cubicle job if I go to city college and for some reason don’t end up in grad school.</p>
<p>“Five years after you graduate hardly anyone will care where you went to college. Ten years no on will care.”</p>
<p>In 100 years no one will care that I existed, so why should I bother living?</p>
<p>“I have anxiety about being stuck in some low salary cubicle job if I go to city college”</p>
<p>Yeah, you might, but that depends on a lot of things other than where you went to school. What you majored in, where you plan to live, how well you interview, whether you took advantage of all the opportunities available at college, etc.
And I don’t think most people stay in the same job they got right out of college anyway. They move up in the world.</p>
<p>I feel the same way, and I’m not even applying yet. But yesterday I saw someone get into m top school and I was like ugh they took my spot even though I’m a junior!!! I haven’t even done much research either so that school may not even be a choice by this time next year.
You can still do well at a local school. That can help you go somewhere “greater” further down the line. They will be impressed if you do well in college.
My teacher told us she ran away her senior year and didnt go to school, which obviously is a bad situation. She went to a state university though and made sure she did really well because she realized she was paying for it, and employers would care about her college GPA. So she did well. Harvard offered to pay for her to get her masters (?) there. That’s cool.</p>
<p>Did you know that the president of Carnival cruise line an owner of The Miami Heat went to a Miami Dade Community college? So did the CEO of AT&T mobile for Canada and Latin America, CEO of Mc Donald corporation for Latin America and the Ex- mayor of Miami. They all started at a community college and made brilliant carriers. Do not use this “city school” as an excuse not to succeed. Mirror yourself not in the potential success of your friends but in the success of so many other people that started with so far less opportunities than yourself,then you’ll realize how lucky you are.</p>