College acceptances are out and all anyone can seem to talk about is how low the admissions rates are this year (5.2 percent at Harvard, 4.7 percent at Stanford — you get the idea). But if you think about it, the success rate of most startups is about the same as your chances of getting into a top school.

While it’s easy to lament the increasingly competitive academic landscape, as any entrepreneur will tell you, anything worthwhile is difficult. As the co-founder of an educational consulting company, I often speak with students about their goals for college and beyond. Recently, an international student expressed her desire to study in the U.S. so that she might “become an entrepreneur.”

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