I ready the authors note on your book and I want to say you're not a failure or a loser. I know for a fact that you aren't an idiot because real idiots don't go apply to schools. My sister has been trying to get jobs and it's been interview after interview day and night and she would always get declined. Every time they say they don't want her is just like it's okay maybe that wasn't for me and I can something better. Also, my dad he never got the chance to finish college because his step dad didn't want to pay for a son that's not his, but that didn't get him down cause he managed to get a job have kids and a wonderful life because he use to live in a one bedroom apartment with my mom and her three daughters paying for child support for his other two daughters. Also, my mom got pregnant when she was 17 in the 1980s and even though she had to take care of twins it never brought her down cause she knew that she could get through it and she managed to juggle it all to get through college. If you think that your parents would think you're a failure cause you got rejected from schools that might not be true cause most of the greatest minds get rejected heck Thomas Edison was kicked out for asking to many questions. Steven Spielberg was about to get fired until he made jaws, Michael Jordan lose 1,000 games and it only made him stronger. Cause even though I don't know you I know that you can do great things if you put your mind to it don't let these people bring you down because you'll only let them win don't let them take control over your life make it your own strive to have the life you want not what other people tell you. So please do not call yourself an idiot because idiots think they don't have to do anything to get what they want.