If you’re a senior who’s worked hard in high school, who challenged yourself and committed to activities and was fully engaged in your college planning, your future is bright, no matter which colleges said yes and which did not.

The day the decision arrives is just one day. But all the days leading up to it, all the work and effort you put in, that’s what will carry through to whatever college is lucky enough to get you. The traits it took to put that string of continuous effort in—that’s what will make you successful in the long run. Not the decision from any particular college.

Be proud, and be eager about what’s next. The payoff will come in one way or another because you’ve already done the hard part.