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you have to realize that not everyone can get into HYPSM. it’s nothing against you, or how hard you’ve worked. it’s just that there are only so many spots. </p>
<p>it’s really not as bad as you think. you still sound like a great student. maybe you aren’t “unique” enough for a Princeton or Stanford, but based on your stats, it’s not like you would not have access to equally great educations at a Duke, Northwestern, Emory, NYU, etc. you are in NO way limited in life by going to Notre Dame as opposed to Harvard. </p>
<p>i’m sorry, but it seems ridiculously pretentious to act as if you are “entitled” to a spot at an Ivy League school simply because you worked hard in high school. thousands of other kids worked just as hard as you. they can’t all be accepted. </p>
<p>if you are admittedly not very unique, why should the PREMIER institutions in the country offer you admissions?</p>