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Ask HN: How do you deal with failure of not getting into a good school?
How do you deal with the failure of not getting into the top highschool in CS?
Should I listen to my "friends" (more like old classmates) offer (everyone wants me to go to their option)? Which is to go to their school? I can go to another second option (but it requires a complicated commute and money)
- alttab 7y agoUse daddy's money to go into Singer's side door by buying extra time for the SATs and then bribing everyone along the way. In reality - I never applied to those because it didn't seem like it mattered and I knew I couldn't afford it. Ask yourself why you care about school X, Y, or Z, and find a way to realize that any one individual school is not the critical path to your dreams. Also, know that exploiting the opportunities you have is way more important than lamenting the opportunities you don't have.