>>12412604I'll tell you this, OP. I had people telling me that I
should be at MIT. With confidence, I said I
wouldn't be picked there. I knew because I did
applications for Columbia and Princeton, paid
the fee and had some good references--
neither of whom went to those places. And those connections do matter, as far as I can tell.
So, yeah, I wasn't sad about it. Neither should
you, regardless of skill.
