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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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07-03-2007, 05:14 PM
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#301 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 16
| improvement?
My E/C's .. I put so much time into them and I am truly passionate about my two main interests, which are politics & community service, but I think that it is honestly true that money is a huge factor and can help you get recognized widely if your family has connections or can pay your way for summer programs, lessons, etc.
Anyway, I am applying to Columbia, Princeton, & Yale this fall .. and I am nervous. So I guess I wish everything was a little better - it's all about getting an edge I guess. | 
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07-05-2007, 01:07 AM
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#302 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 93
| SAT scores, just 'cause the 570 on reading is pathetic, along with the pitiful 560 on SAT II German and 660 on SAT U.S. History.
ECs, sort of, but more community/volunteer work than clubs. | |
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07-09-2007, 03:45 AM
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#303 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 170
| i regret not trying my sophomore year | |
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07-27-2007, 11:25 PM
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#304 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 69
| I wish I could change my GPA, if math classes were taken out of the picture, my gpa could be so much higher T_T | |
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08-13-2007, 10:08 PM
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#305 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Queens, New York
Posts: 156
| Yeah, my SAT scores aren't fabulous so...
Ah well. | |
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08-30-2007, 06:26 AM
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#306 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 38
| I definitely regret not going to somewhere FAR FAR away. | |
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09-02-2007, 11:13 PM
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#307 | | New Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 3
| sat score, i sucked on the reading and writing | |
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09-03-2007, 04:10 PM
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#308 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Wellesley 2012!
Posts: 1,428
| It was a tough choice between the "applying to fewer schools" option and the "SAT or ACT scores" one, but I chose the second because you can never be satisfied with what you got (unless you got perfect). If I had one more point higher on my ACT, I could apply to so many more scholarships and be available to some full rides. | |
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09-23-2007, 07:53 PM
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#309 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 201
| with all due respect, i think you could have perhaps added one more category...entitled: "The entire system".
i don't want to change anything about myself. my abilities and character are what they are. i just wish i could have lived my high school years to the fullest, instead of living for what i thought the colleges wanted me to achieve. my generation has evolved into nothing more than a bunch of "college admissions pleasers."
i think A.P. classes should be wiped off the face of the earth. i think more colleges should be built to accomodate how many students are applying. i think they should completely re-vamp admissions standards. how about a lottery system? colleges should have all kinds of us students, with a range of abilities. i mean, that's the way the world is. you don't get hired in a company that just has brainiacs. there should be no more homework on the weekends, holildays, and summers. way too much pressure. | |
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09-24-2007, 12:01 AM
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#310 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 50
| i agree with rutgers hopeful..... its really not fair. high school has become into a competitive jungle of people basing others on their gpa or sat scores. i definitely could have lived my high school years more to the fullest if it wasn't like this. Now everything revolves around acronyms... APs/SATs/ACTs/IB. i mean i know we cant have it like how we all pictured high school to be like.. like out of a tv show like boy meets world or whatever.
it is a rough system that colleges have set up for their prospectives. but i guess we just have to deal. | |
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09-29-2007, 12:07 AM
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#311 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Wellesley 2012!
Posts: 1,428
| I think it's really not the system that is wrong, but that there's something wrong with us for falling into the trap of thinking that we have to be perfect. Any college that we go to we shall be happy, even if it's not Harvard or Yale. We have merely forgotten how to live our lives for ourselves, and it's up to each and every one of us to fix that. | |
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09-30-2007, 06:54 PM
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#312 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 201
| My E/C's .. I put so much time into them and I am truly passionate about my two main interests, which are politics & community service, but I think that it is honestly true that money is a huge factor and can help you get recognized widely if your family has connections or can pay your way for summer programs, lessons, etc. | |
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10-28-2007, 09:56 PM
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#313 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Southern California
Posts: 143
| GPA big big time | |
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10-29-2007, 11:24 PM
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#314 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 126
| Grades. Everything else is decent. I got a 2030 on the SAT, which I'm satisfied with and my unweighted GPA is only 3.34. | |
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11-03-2007, 11:35 PM
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#315 | | New Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 24
| Awesome poll! I said grades. | |
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