If I didnt attend any of the top universities straight out of high school, is there absolutely no chance that you cant succeed monetary wise?Is it really over? Because… college confidential sometimes really freaks me out sometime about the prestige hoarding. I picked up a line from a comment 3 years ago “And school prestige/reputation is very important and should never be discounted. The “you can do anything you want from any school” line that I have seen some around here try to convey is propaganda. There are always exceptions, but the entire point of getting a four-year degree is often because the odds overwhelmingly say it is necessary for long-term success, and the same is true for school reputation/prestige.”. ,My god my future must be terrible if I only get into baruch and the state schools! The inside of me wants me to achieve all these things but I come from a extremely poor background and also not sure where to start.
I’d edit your post before you get forcibly censored. There’s no reason to be so angry about it.
You start with the schools you got into and can afford. Then it is up to you to make the most of your college education and go on to be both happy and successful. Take the stuff you read on CC with a grain (or two) of salt.
My god! Even my sister regrets being informed about college from college confidential. I wish my sister never introduce me to this website because it twist me up sometimes about my life.
Go to college. Learn something and go out into the wide world and ply your skills. It’s not (all) rocket science.
Listen to me. I grew up poor. I went to nowhere state U. I make plenty of money and am perfectly happy. And I’n NOT the exception. This happens more often than not.
Go to college, work your way up. It is not about Harvard. It’s about you and what you do with the next few years, maturing, learning, etc. Take a breath and know that the path before you is well-trodden, and usually ends very well.
Good luck.
Nah. If only the people who went to say the top 50 schools in the country ended up successful then we’d have a massive issue… At the end of the day an individual can be successful anywhere. Opportunities may be more plentiful at certain schools, but there are successful people who didn’t even go to school. At the end of the day don’t flip out if you don’t get into an amazing school, the decision to go to school is more powerful than the decision of where to go to school. Usually.
You can succeed where ever you go to college. Many of my friends who went to Community College later transferred to ‘mediocre’ state schools. Some make over 200k a year now and they’re still in their 20’s.
Besides, even if you don’t go to a top university straight out of high school , you can transfer. Even if you don’t transfer, you’ll still be perfectly fine. It’s all about what you do in college/what you learn in college opposed to where you went.
In fact, somewhere in the internet there is a list of the undergrad schools the Fortune 500 CEO’s went to. If you take a look at the list, you can see clearly that many of the CEO’s did not in fact go to the Ivy League/MIT/Stanford… most of them went to their state school and what do you know, they turned out to be very successful.
I dont know I kinda messed up high school(3.3gpa,only 3 honors and 4 aps,created my own club,part of arista, member of 2 other clubs,internship).My sat are only 1550 (though I kinda hate SAT in general)…I will be among the 1st generation college students(college itself is a massive achievement in my family…my parents didnt had the money to be the ideal tiger mom to prepare me for the sat). However I do notice a massive trend that me and everybody seems to notice. I hate high school because the regent subjects are mundane and all different I have to take are intolerable.I do way better in honors/ap classes for some reason. The more interesting/complex the topic the more likely I am going to do well. Infact, I did worse on honors chemistry than Ap physics. I look foward to college and succeeding there