Pick your second-most-dream college and go there. Or if you really hate all your options, go work for a year and reapply, possibly to different colleges (you might be surprised how much your preferences can change in a year...let them). In the grand scheme of things, the college you go to matters little.<p>FWIW, I was also rejected from Olin (I applied to be in the very first class of Olin Partners, back in 2000), it was also my first choice, but I learned that if your top choice is an engineering school don't say that you want liberal arts. ;-) I ended up going to Amherst, had a decent-but-not-great time there, and then had a very successful career as a software engineer, working at 2 startups, founding one, ending up at Google for 5+ years, and now founding my second. If I had to do it all over again, I might not have done liberal arts (actually, I regret not applying to big schools like Stanford, CMU, or MIT), but it turns out you can recover from most mistakes you make as a teenager. Good thing, too, because you make a lot of them.