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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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02-24-2005, 11:36 PM
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#46 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Washington, D.C.
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| i had a close to perfect 4.0 with only 3 Bs, all during freshman year. then this year (senior) i got a C in AP Calculus BC. it was devastating. 
and i wish i gave myself more time for essays.
blah. | 
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02-25-2005, 04:27 PM
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#47 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Toledo
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| Definately ECs and Awards | |
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02-26-2005, 09:00 PM
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#48 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2005
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| om only a sophomore but i did horrible iin freshmen with my 2.7 GPA!!!!!!! i now have 3.9uw!! problem is even with a 4.0 GPA rest of my years only top tier colleges i can really get into is probably stanford and princeton becuase they dont look at freshmen grades...thank you lord for making those 2 colleges not look at freshmen grades meaning id still have a chane!!! | |
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02-27-2005, 11:13 AM
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#49 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Canada
Threads: 26
Posts: 241
| I put SATs. I don't really have any standard to compare myself to at school because a lot of people who took the SATs this year want to go down (south) for sports, and they had to do it, just because it's a requirement - their marks are irrelevant(to them), and I also never asked (I thought that it would be rude)...but from all the stats posted here >.< you get the idea. My "GPA" is ok, and so is my rank, and I hav tons of ECS, though none internationally recognized (Olympiad, etc)... but since I'm an international applicant, we use the percentage system instead - another drawback. I heard from my interviewer that the fail mark in the US is 70% - is this true? (though I haven't actually failed) In Canada it's 50-60%. | |
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02-27-2005, 10:54 PM
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#50 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: claremont. ca
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| uh....everything. SATs-didnt study, bad idea. GPA-got 8 Bs and a C, would be val by myself not sharing it instead of being #15 like i am right now, essays-all good except my rice one, and i like rice a lot too , ECs-forgot to mention one of 2 of my only 3 year ECs, teacher recs-i had a teacher tell me i was a wonderful kid and ask me why i didnt ask her to write me a wonderful rec letter, i had her for a teacher last semester and for a couple clubs that i was active in, unfortunatly too late, this year, interview-wore sandels, t-shirt, and slouched at my pomona interview(1st choice) and when asked why i wanted to attend, simply answered, because i like cali and small schools, oops, # of schools-11, but i did them all in less than a month, should have also applied to mit, caltech, stanford, yale, brown, columbia, vanderbilt, and colgate, just to see what would have been, but i cant afford throwing away 400$ more.
wow, i wish i could re-do everything... | |
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03-04-2005, 06:29 PM
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#51 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Stankonia
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| Besides GPA, not a thing | |
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03-07-2005, 10:38 PM
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#52 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: USA
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| Since everyone here is sick in the head and think they need 10.0 / 2.0 GPA, they all said "My grades/GPA"
I said "Apply to fewer schools". Why? Well because I applied to 12 schools and got accepted to my top one. So that means $550 down the drain for applications. Then, since when we were taking SATs, I thought I was applying to about 22 schools...hadn't picked which ones yet, so I just had college board send SATs to all of them, so that's an extra $126 down the drain. When it all comes down, it's like $700-800 that I could have saved.
Other than that, I wouldn't change a thing. Although, I do admit, while waiting for my acceptance/rejection I thought that maybe my scores/grades weren't high enough. That tormented me, but not anymore.
Maybe, something that should be added to the poll is "apply to different schools." At the time, I had applied to ALL reach schools. When I got my acceptance/rejectionts back, I got accepted to all but one. I was thinking it would be better to get more rejections...so I probably should have thrown in higher reaches...just for the hell of it....some schools where I know I couldn't get into, but try it anyway just for the hell of it. Oh well.
I'm not saying it's bad to get all acceptances, but it makes me wonder if I could have applied elsewhere and gone to an even more competitive school to make myself look better in the job market. | |
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03-11-2005, 09:56 PM
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#53 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
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| Ah...everything about mine is peachy except for the unfortunate fact that I have no life.
Well, my life is school. Therefore, I have no "community" stuff. Totally not cool. It's not my fault that my parents aren't religious and I'm no debutante. | |
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03-13-2005, 05:08 PM
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#54 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
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| I'm only a junior, but...
I feel like extra-curriculars are what may prove to be my downfall. Or maybe that's just what i think after reading on CC about all these people with their stellar records. Wow, people here are completely mind-blowing.
With the activities that I am involved in, I feel like I haven't stepped up and gotten into leadership roles enough. Well, there's one more year of high school left for me and I guess there's still hope. | |
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03-14-2005, 06:52 PM
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#55 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Virginia, UVa :)
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| only thing i'd probably change would be my highschool GPA and my ECs...I'm a transfer applicant soooooo you know | |
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03-18-2005, 06:59 AM
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#56 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: singapore
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| well take part in more activities and wud have stopped slackin in jc to try to qualify for olympiads/competitions/research ..something i generally noticed among international acceptees. | |
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03-20-2005, 12:29 PM
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#57 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
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| tho gpa could'va improved..i wish i'd joined a sport. and i also wish i did better on psats for those scholarships..apparently if you do well on those you get a lot of offers from schools..my friend won the scholarship and several schools offered her full tuition and stipend, etc. i mean, she does a LOT of stuff in school and has good gpa, but psat is what got their attention in first place. | |
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03-20-2005, 05:04 PM
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#58 | | Member
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| If it wasn't for my lame GPA, I would be comfortably waiting for my letters from UCB and UCLA | |
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03-21-2005, 04:52 PM
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#59 | | Member
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| how lame is ur gPa? | |
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03-21-2005, 07:39 PM
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#60 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
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| 3.2 with basic classes. | |
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