“Go to academia “? Is she for real? Ask the snowflakes?
This is precisely what ‘created’ Hillary, and almost ruined our nation. For those who aren't markedly creative, lack entrepreneurial skills, don't invent things, aren't accomplished craftsmen/women, aren't great musicians or writers, aren't good at science or engineering, don't have the grit to work hard building things, and who aren't going to make it as an entertainer or athlete, there is ‘academics’, ‘activism’, and politics. Generally not the ‘cream of the crop’, but often with huge egos, these are the people who never matured enough psychologically or spiritually to understand that the world doesn't revolve around them - and shouldn't.
That she got into Wellesley was the entire key to the rest of her life - and it was probably the beginning of the end of any chance of a normal fulfilling life for her, because it ‘fed’ her narcissistic ego - an ego that sees her now unable to cope with losing an election and accepting that she just isn't a very good politician.