Perhaps my opinion is a bit stupid, but I frankly don’t view attending a top college as such an important thing. The point of a career is to eat and live with s

Perhaps my opinion is a bit stupid, but I frankly don’t view attending a top college as such an important thing. The point of a career is to eat and live with some dignity. I don’t think you need a top school for this. If you’re much more ambitious, maybe you want to contribute in a higher way to society with your career. If you’re on a path where it’s obvious to others you’re doing this and likely to be successful, you’ll probably end up at the top school naturally. If not, you’ll probably end up somewhere better fit for your level. I frankly consider the state school honors kids to be the intellectual elites of their communities and the top school kids to be some weird combination of academic parents, childhood interventions (extra math tutoring etc.), extreme striving, VERY abnormal talent in a specific academic area, or, as recent events have shown, nepotism