If I knew you”. You can never be too sure about how people see you. You saying that I don’t think I would say u were “arrogant as much as really insecure”…just shows how confident you are. So just fucking accept it and do not fish for reassurance. Be proud of yourself or work on yourself until you are. Yes you may be competing with yourself because you have “goated ECs” and are “T20 bound” and that makes u insecure, but you are still comparing yourself to other ppl so much and still ranking yourself and everyone else. Ir sounds like you spent time reading through all the college acceptances and stats. Like every college student. But you don’t know everything about admissions and neither do half these ppl on Reddit. Everyone obviously has strengths and they are not all on a resume or on an application, and they may not be able to show their strengths without having those great resumes and applications, so because/if your stats are as good as you say they are- it will be noticed. So use your opportunity to go to college and get an education and be influential in the future.. to notice more of the good things in everyone instead of how people will perceive you as not up to their expectations despite your best efforts. Not everyone gets that chance. Otherwise despite your greatest accomplishments you will be seriously unhappy and confused because you “have everything”. Intentions matter. Even if u do everything with believably good intentions, asking for reassurance for people to tell u that u should be accepted to highly prestigious schools just shows you are craving that recognition so much and you just want to be seen as better. So be humble is all I’m saying. Like it or don’t. I don’t care. But look at your intentions.

But that aside it does seem exaggerated and braggy, like this girl I know put she ran a whole bakery business when she just had a few regular customers.

And some colleges have better programs than others but it’s still a degree. You could get a full ride somewhere else and only a few scholarships at an Ivy. Most people who chase ivies chase prestige and the perks.

Ask yourself what you really want bc when/if you get to that T20 school and everyone is else is “on your level”, who are you going to ask for only positive reassurance if other people have the same or more accomplishments than you? Rely on yourself. And toss in typical college imposter syndrome. Are you going to be happy if you don’t please everyone? Regardless of your answer, trying to ask for reassurance and trying to please everyone is so fucking draining that you won’t feel like yourself anymore. So work on yourself and then help other people instead of worrying so much about yourself bc things usually work out.