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[quote=Anonymous]I didn't study for my SATs but did well enough to get into a top 25 university.  My dad refused to pay anything for it even though he had the means (since women just end up SAHMs) so I ended up at a tier 3 university.  I was a big fish in a small pond at that university and did really well.  I got lots of opportunities because I was a stand out student with a 4.0, student body prez, board of trustee member, and did tons of research with good peer reviewed publications.  This propelled me forward with a full fellowship for my PhD and then a law degree from a top school.  I'm very happy with where I landed.

I do, however, look back and wonder what would have happened if I'd gone to a better school for undergrad.  I was a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship coming out of undergrad, but lost out in the final round.  It would have been a first for my university, so I was navigating the highly competitive Rhodes process with zero guidance.  I think I would have been more competitive with a bit of advice about what I was supposed to know and do.  Candidates from other schools had beem heavily prepped and groomed.  Sometimes I wish that I'd studied for the SAT so I could have gotten a full scholarship to the top 25 university and not been held back by my father.  Oh well, I haven't let him hold me back since then.  That was the last time.[/quote]

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