Rant: Target kids have no right to complain

Having kept up with this website, I am sick and tired of reading posts from target kids complaining about not getting offers or SA roles. I get that (and it is fair) that IB is hard gig regardless of who or what school. But if you are at a target school, you have no right to complain (see: complain, did not say you can’t be unhappy with the rat race). You were given every advantage that could be available to a student at the start of college, and somehow still didn’t carry through. Maybe it’s because you are just a poor networker or interviewer, or maybe an unlikeable person, or you have shit work ethic, or don’t know how to study technicals/waited till the last minute, but that is your own fault. Don’t complain about an “unfair” system or situation. Blame the economy if it makes you feel better. It’s almost as if other people had to deal with the same economy and somehow didn’t blow it. Grow a pair and take ownership of the fact that you shit the bed despite all the advantages you had but failed to used effectively. This includes for return offers.

Especially true when I hear people complain about non-targets (non diverse) people who get banking spots. For context, I come from a semi-target, call me salty if you want. If these non-targets managed to get in to the game, especially at good spots, they had to finesse their way in and more likely than not had to demonstrate their worth far beyond the average applicant. They had to work harder than most and beat the odds. You fucked it up despite having the odds in your favor. Target schools can be competitive and toxic but you still ultimately get the advantage of being at a target school, learn how to use that.

If the argument is that you didn’t “realize” you wanted to do IB until later, boohoo. You were given the advantage and didn’t act on it, or didn’t take the time to figure out what to do with it. Please realize that if someone else at a non-target/semi-target was in your position of not realizing they wanted to do IB until late into college, there is an infinitely more likely chance they will not get in. It’s your job to realize your advantages and act on them, if you fail to do so, there’s no complaining to do except about your own sorry fuckup.

Seriously, some people here are so unbelievably out of touch.