lol safety school

Filling out grad school apps right now /sci/.  How do I get past the feeling that I'm going through a shitton of work and paying app fees out the ass just for the privilege of getting rejection letters from some of the best universities in the country?

Princeton, $90 - "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU FUCKING WISH!"
Berkeley, $70 - "Fuck off you redneck loser"
Harvard, $105 - "What? Not even one letter of recommendation from a Fields medalist??"
Pennsylvania, $70 - "When we say 3.5 GPA minimum, we *MEAN* 3.5 GPA minimum.  I dgaf if your GRE and Putnam scores *are* higher than 75% of our current students."
Stanford, $105 - "B.S. from the University of Where?? HAHAHA"
UCLA, $70 - "Uhhhh, no. *smirk*"
Illinois, $60 - "Dear Applicant: Fuck off and die kthx."
University of Buttfuck-Nowhere, $45 - "Sure, c'mon over!  Enjoy never being able to find a decent job, though."

Ah, fuck it.  At least the University of Buttfuck-Nowhere is in a nice town. :/

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True. Still, from what I understand letters of recommendation are less important than most students think.