<p>Yes, but sadly Penguin, many here aren't quite mature enough to realize that they can do well at any good school. Top schools really get all the hype and so people feel like it's over if they don't get in.</p>
<p>I always think it's crazy when I see something like the fact that the Pres of MIT (recent, maybe current still?) Susan Hockfield went to the University of Rochester. Not a bad school at all, but certainly not HYP that people are dying to get into, and she turned out fine. There are many, many people like that.</p>