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View Poll Results: What I wish I could change on my applications. | |
My grades/GPA.
|     | 3,516 | 42.55% | |
My SAT or ACT scores.
|    | 1,976 | 23.91% | |
My extra-curriculars.
|    | 1,853 | 22.42% | |
My essay(s).
|    | 248 | 3.00% | |
My interview.
|    | 54 | 0.65% | |
My letters of recommendation.
|    | 85 | 1.03% | |
Apply to more schools.
| | 167 | 2.02% | |
Apply to fewer schools.
| | 56 | 0.68% | |
Not a thing!!
| | 309 | 3.74% |
11-09-2011, 07:04 PM
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#526 | | Junior Member
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what a sad thread... but yeah I wish I studied for the SATs.
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11-24-2011, 06:53 AM
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#527 | | Junior Member
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GPA hands down.
SAT and EC would be the second choices.
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12-16-2011, 12:31 AM
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#528 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Dallas, TX
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I did worse on the SAT II test in my intended major than I did on the others I took. All my other grades and scores were positives, and this dragged me down.
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12-27-2011, 04:11 PM
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#529 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
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GPA for sure. Sophomore year  | |
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12-28-2011, 01:53 PM
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#530 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
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Extracurriculars are a close 2nd but I would say SAT/ACT. I was SO lazy in studying for them. I studied for the SAT for about 2 weeks, and studied for the ACT for one day. ONE DAY! And I got a 32. I imagine I could have made almost a perfect score with a couple months of studying.
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12-29-2011, 08:25 AM
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#531 | | Junior Member
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I got a B (by .2 points) because I didn't press the issue of my 11th grade English teacher losing my work. I would like to think that someone in guidance should have noticed that my only B came from a teacher who wrote the guidance department a letter about how I'm a horrible student and person, but whatever, it was last year.
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01-06-2012, 10:21 PM
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#532 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
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This poll goes to show that by far, one of the most important components of college admission will be GPA.
Crap.
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01-21-2012, 09:02 AM
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#533 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Winston-Salem, NC (Fall 2012: Boone, NC)
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Nothing on there for this, but the part where I was suspended for academic misconduct freshman year.
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01-21-2012, 04:48 PM
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#534 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Boston, MA
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I wish I had more research and also sports/arts. My GPA/SAT are decently high, but my ECs aren't that great outside of medicine and tutoring (volunteer).
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01-26-2012, 03:12 PM
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#535 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Well, I'm gonna mix it up a bit and say
If I knew then, what I know now....
my son would have never gone to the college he was wait listed at...after four hard years, it was not enough fun and wayyyyy to much money so if he could have changed one thing on his application, it would be not to send it to schools that were too demanding and too expensive and instead send it to our state school's main campus...way more fun, way less expensive, and way better career services....(our second child is there!)
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02-16-2012, 10:06 PM
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#536 | | New Member
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02-21-2012, 09:48 PM
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#537 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 18
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Can someone chance me? I haven't gotten any replies to my first post ever :/
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03-14-2012, 11:13 PM
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#538 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: UVa SEAS 2016
Posts: 117
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My application. It had 4 typos in it which may keep me out of my dream school.
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03-20-2012, 09:54 PM
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#539 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Suwanee, GA
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My SAT's pretty happy, tons of ECs, haven't done my interviews yet, but oh my god. My GPA. Three B's and I want MIT. One B is in Calc BC. *stress*
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03-24-2012, 10:44 AM
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#540 | | Junior Member
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My race lol
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