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View Poll Results: What I wish I could change on my applications.
My grades/GPA. 1709 41.03%
My SAT or ACT scores. 1106 26.55%
My extra-curriculars. 849 20.38%
My essay(s). 132 3.17%
My interview. 30 0.72%
My letters of recommendation. 43 1.03%
Apply to more schools. 93 2.23%
Apply to fewer schools. 32 0.77%
Not a thing!! 171 4.11%
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Old 05-30-2005, 09:24 PM   #76
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SAT. my GPA is 4.3 weighted so no sweat....only the SATs must be ripped, shreded, flushed down the toilet and fed to the rats
 
Old 06-07-2005, 03:39 PM   #77
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I wish I wrestled as a freshman.
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Old 06-07-2005, 04:27 PM   #78
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Definetly my grades and gpa...they're gonna kill me next year when i apply
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Old 06-07-2005, 04:32 PM   #79
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extra-curriculars, definitely
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Old 06-18-2005, 06:57 AM   #80
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Looking at this really made me examine the way we've all come to look at our high school years. My SAT scores were a little lower than I would have liked, I got 4 B's, I was in 6 EC's, I played no sports. Everyone told me that senior year I should have signed up for calculus and physics, for transcipt sake, but I'm taking AP Euro and Newspaper III, instead. I won't sacrifice classes I love for classes I hate, nor did I spend every spare moment of free-time Junior year studying for SATs. I'm doing all right though, and I have no regrets. I've read a lot of what people have written on this forum; you're impressive, smart, talented, the "ideal" students, but in such competition as that which we create for ourselves, we lose sight of the fact that we can't do it all. And while we all could have taken that harder class or joined that extra math club that we were disinterested in, it's not our job to be perfect, but only to be human.
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Old 06-22-2005, 02:16 PM   #81
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SATs don't really count as much as you all think. In fact, most people ignore the SATs unless you absolutely bombed them.
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Old 06-22-2005, 03:22 PM   #82
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My GPA could definitely use a boost. Moving around from school to school (3 total) has killed my grades. I would also ban Chemistry (the bane of my existence). No offense to all you science enthusiasts.

I guess all of us will have to make the best of our situation next year and hope for the best when those rejections (not too many, hopefully) start apperaing in the mailbox.
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Old 06-30-2005, 09:04 PM   #83
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SAT scores (2150), but my CR's a bit lower than I like at 680, I really wanted that 700. Oh well, but my GPA's a 3.96 (B in Physics I).
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Old 07-06-2005, 08:09 PM   #84
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i'd change my interview, because i actually asked if it was a big party school

i'm not joking, it was my last interview, i kinda cruised it, and maybe got a little out of hand
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Old 07-08-2005, 06:39 PM   #85
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my ethnicity...i joke i joke XD i am proud to be chinese...change my grades..definitely...and change my HS..
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Old 07-13-2005, 05:59 PM   #86
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Definitly SAT scores (1730). With any luck I can bring them up.
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Old 07-19-2005, 08:26 PM   #87
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Definitely grades/GPA/rank
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Old 07-25-2005, 08:51 AM   #88
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Definitely my grades/GPA/rank. Dang, when I was in a public school in TX, I was #7, and at a competitive private school, my GPA is only about 3.70/4.00, and this is very likely to hurt my chances at the schools that I really want to go.

I want to change my school's grading system. One should get at least 94 to get an A and there is not plus/minus. Parents complain a lot, but the headmaster of the school doesn't give a hoot.

However, I think my SAT Scores are pretty good, so I hope they would help me a lot...
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Old 07-25-2005, 01:24 PM   #89
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EC's = overrated
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it sucks haveing test anxiety....... stupid standerized tests
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