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"Do you have any idea how hard it&amp;#x27;s been to keep our lips sealed about the winners of the Top 10 College Women 2012 competition over the last few months? Yesterday, Glamour finally spilled the beans on our 10 phenomenal picks, and in the evening, we feted them at the striking New Museum in lower Manhattan (dig the hot pink chairs!). The girl power flowed as prizes were awarded to ten spectacular students who have, as the boss (that&amp;amp;#8217;s Glamour Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive) put it, &amp;amp;#8220;affected policy, raised funds, launched companies, and gone viral&amp;amp;#8212;in the good way!&amp;amp;#8212;on YouTube. And these young women are just getting started.&amp;amp;#8221;Here they are: our Top 10 College Women of 2012! Read about &amp;#x27;em all here, and in the pages of our May 2012 issue. The first highlight of the evening was Colgate University junior Maggie Dunne winning the $20,000 grand prize for her Lakota Pine Ridge Children&amp;amp;#8217;s Program, which has distributed more than $100,000 worth of coats, boots, and books to a Native American reservation in South Dakota. Highlights number two through two billion came during the panel, Defining Success Your Way: The New Secrets of Getting Ahead. Of course, listing all two billion would be a bit impractical with all this world-changing on our to do lists, but here are the ones you absolutely can&amp;#x27;t miss: Presidential speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz: &amp;amp;#8220;We hold ourselves to this imaginary standard as women, that we aren&amp;#x27;t good enough. If men have 50 percent of the qualifications for a job, they think, I&amp;amp;#8217;m gonna go for it. If women have 97.5 percent they think, hmm&amp;amp;#133;I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know if I should. Be careful not to count yourself out based on an unrealistic standard.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;If you have to pick up your boss&amp;amp;#8217;s dry cleaning, get that dry cleaning like it&amp;amp;#8217;s never been done before. If you&amp;amp;#8217;re making copies, make them so beautifully your boss weeps. There are no menial tasks. Do the unglamorous stuff well, and with a great attitude. Because most of us live and die by interns who are good. And your boss will know you hold yourself to a standard of excellence, and she can trust you with more.&amp;amp;#8221; Actress Tika Sumpter (Gossip Girl): &amp;amp;#8220;Auditioning is like going in for a job interview every day. You get so many &amp;#x27;no&amp;#x27;s. But I learned from it. Being told no and that I wasn&amp;#x27;t something enough, it made me believe in myself more. Now no one can tell me I&amp;amp;#8217;m not enough. It bounces off me.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;I work hard for every opportunity&amp;amp;#8212;not that I&amp;amp;#8217;m &amp;amp;#8216;given,&amp;amp;#8217; but that I &amp;amp;#8216;get.&amp;amp;#8217;&amp;amp;#8221; Actress Allison Williams (Girls): &amp;amp;#8220;You can&amp;amp;#8217;t be afraid of rejection as long as you&amp;amp;#8217;re getting constructive criticism. It doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t always go down easily, but it will live in your head and you&amp;amp;#8217;ll use it later.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;Joan Didion wrote that what 20-something women have in common is that their all convinced they were the first ones to go through all this. Most people in their 20s can&amp;amp;#8217;t do what you [Top 10 Women] have done. Most can&amp;amp;#8217;t absorb the issues of the world at the same time they&amp;amp;#8217;re navigating their 20s.&amp;amp;#8221; Actress/model/rockstar (not literally&amp;amp;#133;yet) and double-amputee Aimee Mullins: &amp;amp;#8220;There wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t one pivotal moment that got me to where I am, but my ability to pivot. I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;I was once told that I had become too confident, and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven&amp;amp;#8217;t followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has, and is unabashed about it.&amp;amp;#8221; Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman: &amp;amp;#8220;Everyone in the company should think like a founder. I make my own copies. I do my own dirty work. I want my people to have time to dream big and think of ways to go out there and conquer.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;Be authentic in interviews. I think people come in thinking they have to sell themselves in every way aren&amp;amp;#8217;t letting the beauty of who they really are come through. Be passionate and humble and real...Bring the real you in because that&amp;amp;#8217;s who I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to be working with every day. I want to know that you&amp;amp;#8217;re not only a great marketer or problem solver, but also a huge fan of Girls or whatever! Show me who you are.&amp;amp;#8221; Now, see the rest of the crazy-inspiring advice and tear-jerking moments for yourself in this video of the entire panel. Just remember: If watching gives you the urge to bolt out into the street like Superwoman, don&amp;#x27;t forget your house keys. Wow! What&amp;#x27;s your favorite moment from the panel? Which quote strikes you most personally? P.S. See everything on Glamour&amp;#x27;s 2012 Top 10 College Women here. Photos: WireImage"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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