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View Poll Results: What I wish I could change on my applications. | |
My grades/GPA.
|    | 1650 | 40.98% | |
My SAT or ACT scores.
|    | 1075 | 26.70% | |
My extra-curriculars.
|    | 811 | 20.14% | |
My essay(s).
|    | 127 | 3.15% | |
My interview.
|    | 30 | 0.75% | |
My letters of recommendation.
|    | 43 | 1.07% | |
Apply to more schools.
| | 89 | 2.21% | |
Apply to fewer schools.
| | 31 | 0.77% | |
Not a thing!!
| | 170 | 4.22% |
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01-01-2005, 07:27 PM
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#16 | | | i wish i applied to more top schools. basically all the schools i applied to are 1. safety or 2. i have a 50% chance of admissions and they are all within 2 ranks of each other for my major. i thought i would get in all of the safeties and get in 2 out of the 6 good schools i applied to, and i'd visit the two schools and it would be an easy choice because i would be really glad to get into a good school. i ended up getting into every damn school and wondered what if i applied to .... and every school had things i didn't like. this is the worst feeling i believe. | |
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01-01-2005, 09:31 PM
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#17 | | New Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
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| I would change my school's coursebook to offer APs. Not that I care; I got in where I wanted. I just hope I'm not behind next year... | 
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01-01-2005, 10:35 PM
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#18 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
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| Definitely grades/GPA/rank as well. I surely have slacked and not handed in important assignments, causing me to get Bs in a LOT of my AP classes. I'm talking Bs overall - Cs and even Ds in specific marking periods. Thankfully, the colleges didn't see that on my transcript. I'd get an A- one marking period, and a C- the next. I'm not kidding, that actually happened in more than one subject...
It's not that I regret it, so much, but rather that I wish this were not shown on my application so much. It's certainly my weak point. Ah, I got into my first choice school early anyway, so all's well! (Wesleyan University) | |
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01-04-2005, 10:47 AM
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#19 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ohio
Threads: 10
Posts: 221
| after taking the poll i changed my mind! originally, i put "SAT/ACT scores", but now i realize that i did my best. i would like to put "Not a thing!" because my test scores are very good, just not perfect. and, i kind of wish i had applied to a harder "reach" school. i applied to notre dame, but i think it would have been interesting to apply to an ivy league. oh well! | |
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01-05-2005, 04:37 AM
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#20 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gambier, Ohio
Threads: 18
Posts: 315
| if only the grades wud change
if i cud change one thing, it wud definitely be my grades. just because of a C in A levels, i am ranked 21 in 84 which has hurt my chances badly. only if i had done better... | |
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01-07-2005, 06:35 PM
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#21 | | New Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
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| I put my SATs. stupid 1400 and 32. | |
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01-07-2005, 07:58 PM
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#22 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NY & Amherst, MA
Threads: 17
Posts: 666
| okay, guys, colleges aren't looking for perfect people. why? because they don't exist! | |
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01-08-2005, 12:17 AM
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#23 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: South Korea
Threads: 6
Posts: 385
| the thing is..if u changed something then it wouldn't be you! it would be someone else! and that's meaningless | |
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01-08-2005, 01:18 AM
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#24 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Threads: 28
Posts: 278
| I said ECs.. I didn't really get involved until last year.. my junior year. But I was split between that and GPA (which suffered some due to my job, and in part due to my laziness) | |
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01-08-2005, 08:33 AM
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#25 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
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| I really regret my freshman year.. sigh | |
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01-08-2005, 09:09 AM
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#26 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NY & Amherst, MA
Threads: 17
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| jwlee ... exactly! your uniqueness is the only thing you have, basically. and now it's too late to actually change things, but it's okay. | |
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01-08-2005, 07:59 PM
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#27 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: South Korea
Threads: 6
Posts: 385
| i think the most important thing is just doing your best and making sure you have your priorities straight | |
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01-08-2005, 08:07 PM
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#28 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: ca
Threads: 30
Posts: 185
| If I don't get in to where I really want to go I can always look back at about 5 B+'s that could of easily, eaaaaassiiillly been A-'s....my gpa could be so much higher!!! | |
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01-08-2005, 09:14 PM
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#29 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: MD, Stanford
Threads: 11
Posts: 169
| definitely fewer schools... i panicked at the beginning of senior year and put in 14 (!!!) transcript/SAT score requests--$140, + stamps and envelopes and things. i ended up sending out 12 of those 14, which at ~$65 per school is almost $800--except now i realized that i don't really want to go to most of those schools that badly. and there are a lot more things that i would have rather done with almost $1000... not to mention all the time and effort and headaches! | |
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01-08-2005, 09:17 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: cuddled on a oxygen atom in a water molecule
Threads: 288
Posts: 8,802
| I said gpa/grades, I went through a hard time last year, and it's very obvious in terms of my gpa. While my EC's are weak, I would rather have fun than be tied down by something I don't really care about. But then again, I'm a "what if.." kind of person | |
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