<p>First of all MIT isn’t in the Ivy League. I mention that only because your lumping it in with the Ivys made it impossible for me to construct the sentence that I wanted.</p>
<p>They might be willing to take a chance on someone whose background has so much math and physics at the expense of English and history.</p>
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<p>This can’t be right. You had a disagreement with a guidance counselor so you dropped out of school? Is it possible you were bored in high school and that might have had a lot to do with you dropping out?</p>
<p>This might be an important point. A college would rather take a chance on someone who dropped out of high school because he or she was bored rather than someone dropped out because they got mad at a guidance counselor who was just doing their job.</p>