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[quote=Anonymous]I was a nerd, complete with dorky glasses and a skinny body. I was a history fanatic. Came from a single mother home. No money. I was one of the best track athletes in the nation, and while I had high grades and scores (my high school was very good and my mother grabbed one of the handful of apartments to live there). I was admitted everywhere I applied. I was recruited by athletic factories and by the few schools in the top 25 that offer athletic scholarships. At 18 and with no parental guidance the athletic wooing process did not help me. I was in the middle academically of a school consistently ranked in the top 10 in US News, and given the scholarship was so valuable, that is where I attended. In some sense a good choice. But I was a social outcast being poor and the school only had majors for me which required even more school thereafter. Thank goodness for the kids people called nerds. They were my friends. I was not all that talented but poverty and desperation caused me to learn how to really extend myself competitively. In my immaturity I was hostile to the rich kids, viewing them as soft. It takes a while to sort these emotions out.

One thing I badly needed. It was adults working with me to find a match. Only years later did I see that some of the offers I dismissed as athletic factories would have been great choices. There were people working their way through schools, a wide choice of majors, and my grades and scores would have put me ahead. In other words, going to a place where I didn’t need the huge admissions advantage would have made sense.

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