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View Poll Results: What I wish I could change on my applications. | |
My grades/GPA.
|    | 1715 | 41.10% | |
My SAT or ACT scores.
|    | 1107 | 26.53% | |
My extra-curriculars.
|    | 850 | 20.37% | |
My essay(s).
|    | 132 | 3.16% | |
My interview.
|    | 30 | 0.72% | |
My letters of recommendation.
|    | 43 | 1.03% | |
Apply to more schools.
| | 93 | 2.23% | |
Apply to fewer schools.
| | 32 | 0.77% | |
Not a thing!!
| | 171 | 4.10% |
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03-19-2006, 07:35 PM
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#181 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Colorado
Threads: 4
Posts: 38
| I think that overall, my GPA is fine for the level of coursework I've taken and the schools I want to go to (hovering around a 3.8/3.9). My SAT, however, I'm ashamed of. I scored a 31/12 on the ACT plus writing and my SAT is (supposedly) comparable to about a 26 on the ACT... I guess I'm going to have to take it again.... I may not look like a saint compared to some kids on here, but I know that for a lot of schools, a 28 or 29 is a solid score... | 
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03-24-2006, 10:16 PM
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#182 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Threads: 68
Posts: 3,150
| GPA please. It's horrible. =( | |
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03-25-2006, 01:03 AM
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#183 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: plovdiv, bulgaria
Threads: 3
Posts: 65
| I regret my CR SAT score
I could have done much better | |
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03-27-2006, 12:29 PM
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#184 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Pacific Northwest, East Coast Gender: Male
Threads: 15
Posts: 2,616
| Did not quite fully comprehend how important fit was at the beginning of the search. Now, there are several schools on my list that I know I should not have applied to. You'd be amazed at how intense the pressure was to go to an Ivy League school, and then realze the ones I applied to were not for me. | |
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03-27-2006, 12:38 PM
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#185 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New York University....ugh I wish. I hope I get in for fall 2007.
Threads: 47
Posts: 1,462
| I would have gone to public school and gotten a 4.3. | |
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03-29-2006, 07:29 PM
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#186 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Threads: 10
Posts: 154
| GPA..def, because my 9th grade year was a mess... my 10 grade year i carried the tradition(started in 8th grade) of at least one D per year...thyis year i could have been trying harder but my issues were in the way, just got a therapist so i hope to round out the year well. Do I hear a C-less 4th nine weeks report? (I should have tried for all A's and me & my big attitude got one of my sure A turned into a B for one 9 weeks.)
I mean i'm golden ( kinda... haven't taken the SAT yet.. Psat's were high in crit reading, average like in writing (not if there was an essay on the test, math -BAD.) But i will take a prep class that i won't fall asleep in. | |
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03-31-2006, 07:23 PM
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#187 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Threads: 164
Posts: 2,059
| i could change everything for the better. | |
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04-02-2006, 10:21 PM
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#188 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Threads: 5
Posts: 34
| everything, i wake up every morning thinking of at least one thing i could change i just wish i had done it right instead of being SO DAMN LAZY | |
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04-03-2006, 06:20 AM
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#189 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Mass
Threads: 23
Posts: 143
| I would have changed how I applied. Should have applied for a science major instead of pol. sci. My verbal was only 670 while my math was 780... Anybody know how much this affected me? | |
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04-07-2006, 07:25 PM
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#190 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Threads: 164
Posts: 2,059
| nobody knows. i'll take a guess.
if you applied at really competitive schools like Harvard, Yale, etc., it might have hurt you, but by no means did it cause your rejection. | |
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04-08-2006, 07:29 PM
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#191 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Las Vegas Gender: Female
Threads: 34
Posts: 514
| My extra-curriculars suck...i have like 3 | |
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04-17-2006, 07:51 PM
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#192 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: it is 98 outside, and we say "oh, its kinda nice"
Threads: 27
Posts: 391
| i'd never take yearbook. its poisoning my life right now, as well as my GPA | |
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04-24-2006, 01:29 AM
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#193 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Threads: 63
Posts: 1,037
| My race.... | |
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04-24-2006, 08:49 AM
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#194 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Threads: 14
Posts: 172
| I wish I had tried at my Extra Curricular activities before Junior year. Granted, I still have 3 leadership positions, but still... | |
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04-24-2006, 04:46 PM
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#195 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Threads: 56
Posts: 837
| sigh ... freshman yr | |
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