<p>T26E4 is right. If you do not get into HYPSM, guess what? Your world will not end, your life will not be ruined.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, there are many excellent schools out there, most with acceptance rates well over six percent.</p>
<p>If you are applying to Harvard or any similar school RD, you must know that the odds are very much against you, no matter how hard you have worked in high school. It’s not about how much you (or anyone else) think you deserve it. Admissions might not be conducted like a lottery, but you might as well view it that way. </p>
<p>Trying to figure out why someone you know was admitted and you were not is pointless. Back in the day, I was rejected by a certain Ivy while someone else in my class and another student the year before were admitted. I had been their math tutor, so that outcome was a little bit of a head-scratcher (not too much, I knew exactly why they were admitted). But it was not worth re-hashing and analyzing it to death. </p>
<p>The bottom line is that college – any college – is what you make of it. And learning to accept and live with disappointment is a useful life skill.</p>