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Originally Posted by davidthefat
After reading College Confidential thread for a while, I think I got more wrong than I first expected, but still seems over 2200. That site is evil; it makes me feel all self conscious.
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It's a pretty silly website.
Assuming you play your cards right (i.e. apply to couple schools within your scores that you like) you will go somewhere you feel okay about it. And chances are, you will love it. Wherever you go.
IMO, the college application process is way over-hyped. If you do the work, you will find yourself at a solid university. And if you do the work there, then there will be more opportunities than you can take advantage of to get where you want to go. It's all about your drive.
I met a guy two weekends ago who went to University of Maine and studied mechanical engineering while working at a nearby airport on the side to get his A&P (airplane mechanic certification). He worked at a big defense contractor for a few years, then got picked up by Scaled Composites where he ended up as a test engineer for SpaceShipOne. Then he left to start an airplane restoration company.
I bet there are quite a few graduates from more highly ranked schools than UMO that applied for that job.
tl;dr Not getting into Harvard/MIT/Caltech/Stanford/Yale/ is not the end of the world. You can do great things anywhere.
