Jul 26 • General discussion
The truth about college, high school, and success
I understand the stress of wanting to get into a good college, getting awards, getting extracurriculars, and pretty much everything else that comes with the high school college experience. I've heard from a lot of people thay you shouldn't hyper focus on college stuff, but should try to enjoy the high school experience too. Make friends and connections, socialize, have fun, and use those connections to your advantage. If you spend all of your time in high school worrying about college, you might be wasting precious high school time that adults often cherish later in their life. Might as well balance socializing and the college grind or even combine them.
If your goal is to be successful, then there's also caveats to college. If you want to go to Harvard or Stanford or any other top school because you want to be filthy rich/wealthy, then you're just like me and I realized something about these schools. It's not the schools that make you wealthy, its the people that they selectively choose to be accepted to their schools that have the potential to be wealthy, therefore building up their reputation. Somebody that has a 1590 SAT, 4.0 GPA, and blazing extracurriculars that have generated a lot of revenue will have more potential to be successful than someone with a 1000 SAT, 2.5 GPA, and no extracurriculars, so obviously they'll pick the person that shows them the most potential (meaning the most return on their investment). Its not the schools, its the people. If you wish to be successful, starting to become the person that has enough innovation, drive, and the skills to create an extracurricular just like that will get you a long way. I would like to mention that this is how Joowan got into Stanford too, since he said his other ventures were kind of mid and that the skool community was the bargaining chip that got him in. They chose him since they saw potential in him creating a successful business, so they let him in so they would be tied to his name in the future.
So if you want to be successful and you dont get into these schools, its not the end of the world. Billionaire Mark Cuban went to Indiana University Bloomington because it had the lowest cost of the top business schools at the time. Remember it's not the school that makes up the people, it's the people that makes up the school. I've heard of large business owners that graduated high school without going to college making high multi millions and even hundreds of millions per year. Not to discourage anybody since getting to these top schools means your peers will also be people with potential, boosting your chances of making a solid social network that will benefit you in the future, but just understand that its still possible without going to top universities.
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The truth about college, high school, and success
