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View Poll Results: What I wish I could change on my applications. | |
My grades/GPA.
|     | 1,795 | 41.00% | |
My SAT or ACT scores.
|    | 1,158 | 26.45% | |
My extra-curriculars.
|    | 906 | 20.69% | |
My essay(s).
|    | 138 | 3.15% | |
My interview.
|    | 30 | 0.69% | |
My letters of recommendation.
|    | 47 | 1.07% | |
Apply to more schools.
| | 94 | 2.15% | |
Apply to fewer schools.
| | 34 | 0.78% | |
Not a thing!!
| | 176 | 4.02% |
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12-30-2007, 09:20 AM
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#331 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 442
| SATs.. my writing was way low but I was too lazy to retake because my M/CR score was good.. | 
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01-03-2008, 12:33 AM
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#332 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 326
| I wish I could've studied a bit harder for the SAT I/II's. But I guess what's done is done right? | |
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01-04-2008, 11:02 PM
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#333 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 39
| My SAT 1/SAT 2 scores. I wish I could bring up my SAT score to 2000+.
Apart from that everything else in my application is just fine! | |
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01-19-2008, 07:03 PM
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#334 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: (= Smiley Town =)
Posts: 84
| I would change GPA first as its 2.79, and then (I wouldn't change my EC's, I'd just put more years into them). My SAT's are decent. | |
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02-04-2008, 10:16 PM
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#335 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: It depends >-┐ Berkeley <--------------┘
Posts: 1,400
| Now that I sent in all my stuff...I wish I could change my Critical Reading score (560). | |
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02-17-2008, 09:44 AM
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#336 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: MNG -> Cornell Univ
Posts: 1,221
| Yes, me too! (570) | |
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02-18-2008, 10:33 AM
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#337 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: UNC '12!!!!
Posts: 1,197
| If I had it to do over again, I'd have applied to more reaches and less safeties (and I'd have worked harder over the summer). If I had it to do over again, here's what my list would be:
Harvard
Penn
Brown
Columbia
Duke
NYU
UNC-Chapel Hill
Notre Dame
Emory
East Carolina
NC State
Here's what my list ended up being:
Columbia
Duke
Notre Dame
Emory
UNC-Chapel Hill
East Carolina
Florida State
NC State | |
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02-23-2008, 10:49 PM
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#338 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 18
| my gpa =[ ......... | |
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02-26-2008, 02:39 PM
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#339 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Princeton, NJ
Posts: 211
| By and far my ECs: I would have picked up a sport (prolly tennis cus' I play out of school club) and I would have been far more dedicated to the piano. Also, I guess I would have worked harder to score high on regional/state/national competitions and such. I would have just worked harder in general I guess. | |
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02-27-2008, 12:26 PM
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#340 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 332
| GPA - I'm so ticked at myself. I look back on freshman and sophomore year and there are some classes that in hindsight I think I could have gotten higher grades in (I had a 3.5 GPA at the end of sophomore year, so I didn't do too bad) and now it's coming back to bite me. No one ever told me that one quiz could really ruin my GPA (it did - long story). | |
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02-27-2008, 07:16 PM
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#341 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 242
| I'd love a 2400. | |
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03-05-2008, 04:35 PM
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#342 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Joisey
Posts: 254
| me too 10chars | |
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03-05-2008, 10:13 PM
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#343 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 5
| So it seems that most people would change their GPA/rank and I'm worried about mine. I'm a junior in high school and I have straight A's except for one A- freshman year, but I think AP physics is going to kill my GPA becuase I will probably get a B or B+. I want to be a biomedical engineer (MIT is my dream school) but I'm afraid I won't get in because I have bad grades in physics. So my question is, how much does your GPA matter? Especially since my school doesn't weigh my GPA, my class rank is also really low. | |
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03-15-2008, 11:10 PM
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#344 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: SoCal
Posts: 53
| I would have changed my GPA, as most people would have.
However, I'm extremely regretful of where I applied to. I was arrogant and applied to many schools that I now think I will get denied from. I applied ED to an Ivy and was deferred. However, now that it has been 3 or 4 months, I wish I had applied ED to a different, lesser known school. I probably would have been accepted. When I was in the whole application process, prestige influenced me much more than academics or other factors. Eh, you live and learn right? | |
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03-16-2008, 05:55 AM
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#345 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cambridge c/o 2012!
Posts: 259
| If I could just have studied for the SAT, I would have been much better off and not stressing nearly this much... | |
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