# @smeharbinger on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/ClEPaagOtoS
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/22490632-smeharbinger-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-11-17T14:58:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Harbinger (@SMEHarbinger) — https://gondola.cc/SMEHarbinger

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“Have you started thinking about where you want to go to college?”

My middle school self would’ve answered this question without a second thought: “Yale, Harvard… maybe Princeton.”
Even at this age I knew these were probably only a dream due to their single-digit acceptance rates and notoriety as academically rigorous schools whose graduates all went on to become presidents or Nobel prizewinners — don’t blame me for my unrealistic expectations, I was 13. What self-respecting, over-eager academic like me enrolled in a whopping four “advanced” classes at Indian Hills Middle School wouldn’t want to attend the best and most exclusive universities?

When going through the college decision-making process, it’s easy to fall into the mindset of idolizing Ivy League universities and viewing highly selective colleges as the peak of academia and equating low-acceptance rates to status and success.

Read the rest of this opinion story by clicking the link in bio. 

#storybygreysonimm 
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