If I could change one thing.... - Page 4

chickenlegs · 02-25-2005, 12:36 AM

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.

Blackbeltcdjunkie · 02-25-2005, 05:27 PM

Definately ECs and Awards

Sora14211 · 02-26-2005, 10:00 PM

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!!!

applesatyr · 02-27-2005, 12:13 PM

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%.

Kosuke · 02-27-2005, 11:54 PM

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...

Kalikodark · 03-04-2005, 07:29 PM

Besides GPA, not a thing

SnP2k · 03-07-2005, 11:38 PM

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.

Inkling229 · 03-11-2005, 10:56 PM

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.

incognito06 · 03-13-2005, 06:08 PM

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.

nahrafsfa · 03-14-2005, 07:52 PM

only thing i'd probably change would be my highschool GPA and my ECs...I'm a transfer applicant soooooo you know

neha1 · 03-18-2005, 07:59 AM

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.

swhitdeer · 03-20-2005, 01:29 PM

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.

Vehement · 03-20-2005, 06:04 PM

If it wasn't for my lame GPA, I would be comfortably waiting for my letters from UCB and UCLA

alebed01 · 03-21-2005, 05:52 PM

how lame is ur gPa?

Vehement · 03-21-2005, 08:39 PM

3.2 with basic classes.