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View Poll Results: What I wish I could change on my applications. | |
My grades/GPA.
|     | 1,851 | 41.16% | |
My SAT or ACT scores.
|    | 1,185 | 26.35% | |
My extra-curriculars.
|    | 932 | 20.72% | |
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!!
| | 181 | 4.02% |
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08-23-2008, 10:44 PM
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#361 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: IL
Posts: 14
| Definitely my extracurriculars... no leadership roles, no volunteer work, no work experience. And because I haven't been able to find any suitable opportunities, it looks like that's not going to change. | 
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09-03-2008, 03:29 AM
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#362 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 92
| I'd definitely change my GPA...and maybe ECs.
or actually, I'd choose to have started caring about college earlier. | |
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09-04-2008, 11:12 PM
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#363 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 63
| definitely my sophomore year ... pulled me way down to where i cant get back up ... | |
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09-07-2008, 05:18 PM
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#364 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 35
| This is interesting. More than 40% of the voters said they'd work to change their GPA if they could.
I definitely would have changed...procrastination. Everything just sort of falls on you in junior year and the beginning of senior year. I would have tried to accomplish more in the summer of sophomore year if I could. That's my biggest change. | |
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09-08-2008, 01:05 AM
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#365 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 92
| yeah on second thought i'd just make myself procrastinate less...and like everything would go up | |
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09-10-2008, 05:52 PM
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#366 | | New Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 16
| Try visiting the site Uchance.com - Home If you enter in your stats (SAT, GPA, etc.) it will give you your percentage chance of being accepted into any school. It doesn't take into account certain non-statistical factors but it is good for coming up with a list of colleges that fall into the three main categories (safety, 50/50, and reach schools). Hope this helps with your college applications! | |
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09-11-2008, 03:00 PM
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#367 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 32
| Looks aiight | |
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09-14-2008, 03:29 AM
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#368 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 53
| Definitely my HS grades! I completely slacked off during my freshman and sophomore years and wish I would have taken class more seriously back then. My priorities were 180 degrees out of whack as I was more concerned with friends than I was with actual school work. Counselers constantly pounded into my brain that "junior year is the most important year" so I was under the delusion junior year was the only year that mattered. I actually applied myself and made ALL straight A's in AP courses through my junior year, resulting in a cumalitive (and mediocre) GPA of 3.4889 to put on my college applications.
Unfortunately I was forced to work pretty hard for all my HS life to help support my family (and still work during my senior year) and wasn't able to dedicate myself to after-school clubs or activities, so extra curriculars would be my second priority (grades first) if I were able to alter the past.
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09-19-2008, 01:20 PM
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#369 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 32
| Looks like redspur26 owns that chances site s/he is pushing, which increases skepticism about it. I like mychances.net, though. | |
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09-28-2008, 09:35 PM
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#370 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 62
| If i could rewind i would. I slacked off as an underclassmen, and even last year as a junior, i only got one A, and that was in AP Environmental. God, if only i could go back and retake everything, i would beast it up. | |
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10-16-2008, 01:38 PM
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#371 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Fla.
Posts: 2
| I'd change my high school performance altogether. I would have demanded that my parent place me in a different school, that they supported my extracurriculars waaaay more, and over all found an academic mentor to keep me on my toes.
The rest is regret of lack of experience, my social life wasn't much to speak of and I stressed over that a lot, stupid move.
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10-21-2008, 04:41 AM
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#372 | | New Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 1
| hey me a newbie... could u guys help me out> what are my chances of gettin into hamilton with 2 B'S AND a C | |
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10-21-2008, 10:42 AM
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#373 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 52
| you still have a chance but that tells us nothing. GPA? Test scores?
Those are forgivable grades. | |
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10-26-2008, 01:17 PM
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#374 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 46
| Ahhh, I wish I had known how much emphasis schools put on ec's earlier, like even last year! | |
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11-05-2008, 11:21 AM
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#375 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 88
| screwed around as a freshman, ended up with a B+ and A-'s, not that i m complaining, its just that my GPA and rank could be a lot higher. | |
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