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View Poll Results: What I wish I could change on my applications. | |
My grades/GPA.
|     | 1,851 | 41.17% | |
My SAT or ACT scores.
|    | 1,185 | 26.36% | |
My extra-curriculars.
|    | 932 | 20.73% | |
My essay(s).
|    | 140 | 3.11% | |
My interview.
|    | 32 | 0.71% | |
My letters of recommendation.
|    | 47 | 1.05% | |
Apply to more schools.
| | 95 | 2.11% | |
Apply to fewer schools.
| | 34 | 0.76% | |
Not a thing!!
| | 180 | 4.00% |
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01-16-2007, 04:31 PM
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#271 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New Jersey
Posts: 144
| More extracurriculars. I'm fine with the ones I have and I enjoy doing them, but I would do something truly unique that no one else does. | 
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01-27-2007, 01:47 AM
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#272 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Economics @ JHU
Posts: 1,000
| Should've taken the ACT, or get a higher score on the SAT Reasoning. Other than that, I'm quite satisfied with my ECs. | |
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01-28-2007, 12:48 AM
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#273 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Long Island, New York
Posts: 160
| MY SAT score is pretty cool, but my SAT II scores suck because I took them months after I'd taken the courses (because no one thought to tell me that they were required, and I didn't find out until the summer before senior year... hurrah having parents who didn't go to college).
Anyway, my SAT IIs could've been a lot higher if I'd taken them right after my AP exams, that's my biggest regret. | |
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02-05-2007, 12:15 AM
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#274 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: University of Maryland
Posts: 1,102
| drop AP French for AP Bio
have better essays (I used one for all my colleges)
Honors English and World History instead of AP | |
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02-09-2007, 09:02 PM
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#275 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Connecticut
Posts: 6
| ECs
Luckily, I'm a sophmore, so I have time to find some more I'm interested. Right now I do Sports through the year (XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track) and FIRST Robotics, but that is it. Hopefully I'll find two or three more to round out my application. | |
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02-11-2007, 01:39 PM
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#276 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,142
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the thing is..if u changed something then it wouldn't be you! it would be someone else! and that's meaningless
| So are you saying that getting a less than stellar GPA (5 Bs and 1 C) is what defines me as a person?
I think that we all made mistakes and that by changing them, we would show a more complete view of ourselves. | |
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02-22-2007, 02:51 AM
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#277 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 129
| i would totally change my gpa...
my 10-11 gpa is 3.7 weighted...
i got 4 "+"s total in those two years and they werent A+'s.
its really a big ****er... | |
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03-04-2007, 12:53 AM
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#278 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: NY
Posts: 143
| Definitely my SAT scores. Even though I haven't gone through the entire process yet, I think my SAT is pulling me down, but I'm content with my GPA. And I think I can do better for the EC but I think it's too late now.. | |
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03-26-2007, 10:03 PM
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#279 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Illinois
Posts: 72
| I would DEFINITELY have improved my GPA. I didn't put any effort into high school, and apparently, I haven't learned from this now that I am in college, because my GPA is even worse.
Also, I would have applied to more colleges. I applied to more than a lot of people at my hs, but I still don't feel I applied to enough. I keep finding schools I should have applied to the first time around. | |
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03-26-2007, 10:11 PM
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#280 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Charlottesville, VA (UVA C/O 2011!!)
Posts: 405
| screw GPA!!!!! | |
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03-26-2007, 10:12 PM
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#281 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Charlottesville, VA (UVA C/O 2011!!)
Posts: 405
| and wouldnt have taken AP physics... my teacher is mentally insane with workload... | |
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03-27-2007, 07:38 PM
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#282 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Charlottesville, VA (UVA C/O 2011!!)
Posts: 405
| you are a sad sad man | |
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03-27-2007, 09:09 PM
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#283 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 15
| lol i had to say it. i couldnt resist | |
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03-31-2007, 01:28 PM
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#284 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 2
| As you mentioned that you get into Stanford, without much ECs, What is your SAT scores and your GPA to get into Stanford?
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04-05-2007, 05:53 PM
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#285 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,037
| I've said it before and I'll say it again:
my ethnicity. | |
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