Chapter 4

Chapter 4

To silence any second thoughts, I opened my laptop right there on FaceTime with Maya.

Without hesitation, moments before the midnight deadline, I logged into the Common App portal and changed my acceptance from Columbia to Stanford. The cursor hovered over the “Confirm Change” button for just a second before I clicked, watching my future transform with a single mouse click.

her bed. She’d been begging me since junior year to join her at Stanford, painting pictures of California sunshine

and head to Columbia together. The aerospace

were twelve.

focus, I’d spent three years of high school making it my goal. Every AP class, every SAT prep session, every extracurricular -all carefully chosen to match Columbia’s requirements. I’d even joined the robotics club just because Aiden said

of us at Columbia, casually

those same campus paths with him, sharing classes, running into him and Madison at the library or campus coffee shops – it made me physically ill. Or rather, after today, if I

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