Genuine question -- how do people who failed to get into a good school sleep at night knowing that they wasted the first 18 years of their lives, that they had every opportunity to succeed, but ultimately failed? I know I wouldn't be able to. After all, one's undergrad school sticks with them for the rest of their life.
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No idea how people sleep. I know a guy who had the opportunity to graduate from Harvard and dropped out. Total idiot but hey starting Microsoft isn't the worst career.
Fucking idiot... unless this is a troll
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Bruh i feel bad for you if you mean this. People on WSO need to learn that just because someone doesn't go to a "target" school doesn't mean they aren't intelligent or capable of doing all the jobs discussed on this forum. School choice is not one dimensional for a majority of people in this world.
D+ troll.
I don’t really sleep at night, I wake up multiple times and have trouble falling asleep, no idea why. Having said that, as a non-target student, I don’t feel like a failure. I’ll probably end up with a great internship for the summer, a job afterwards. Just like those “target” students will.
The vast majority of people don’t get into HYP type schools, I wouldn’t say the vast majority of people are failures. Target school -> BB -> BX -> HBS MBA and back to MF PE is not the only path to success. Success is a hard thing to quantify, I have a different definition of success then you do and all the people out there who don’t know what a “target school” is or what an investment banker does have their own definition. You sleep peacefully at night being content with yourself, not with where you went to school.
Pretty well. Had a good time in undergrad with no debt and got all the same offers as target students
I might’ve wasted the first 18 years of my life, but it was what I did in the next 18 that made me who I am.
I went to a school with hotter girls than you and graduated with 0 debt working the same job as you. Not a bad deal.
Very hot girls at my west coast non-target. Still got an SA, so I had my cake and ate it, too.
this is simply not true. Nearly every top target provides financial aid to ensure students can attend. Yeah OP is being arrogant but stop blaming the finances. If you got into Harvard, they would make sure you could afford it
Idk, ask David Solomon.
Non target here and no, I don’t sleep at night but that’s PE. If you had a decent job that paid you a fuck ton, you wouldn’t be sleeping either. Well I’ll go back to making bank and you can go back to jerking off to your worthless degree
You act like every kid at Harvard got in because of their own academic merit and not that daddy had connections, or he/she went to college prep school where there are admissions counselors walking around the halls, or he/she wasn’t recruited for a sport
I didn't fail to get into a better school. I made the financial decision to go to a school on a full-ride and graduate with 0 debt as compared to most other people. Looking at the results, I'll be at one of the best groups on the street. Thus, obviously, it worked out. Pls fx your ignorance.
you idiot I am at a non-target (my school's not known for business and hell, I didn't know about the school before it gave me a full-ride). I am just saying that I sleep very soundly that I was able to do just as well as someone who went to a target school while using way fewer resources.
I agree, I would much rather be friends with another non-target than someone who went to Harvard and thinks he's the real deal.
Interesting question. Honestly depends on the day. Some days I can’t get sleep thinking that I’m still recruiting when the target kids were done by summer. Other days I sleep soundly knowing that I don’t have a dime in student loans when the target kids have taken out a mortgage just for undergrad alone.
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