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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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08-01-2005, 07:53 PM
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#91 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Bloomington IN
Posts: 1,609
| I have like no community service. I'm a cold-hearted Scrooge  | 
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08-03-2005, 09:45 PM
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#92 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 6
| i donno......SAT scores, possibly...... | |
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08-07-2005, 03:19 AM
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#93 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Virginia
Posts: 115
| Grades. No one is ever satisfied with their stinking grades. Neither am I. Although by looking at it from a bigger prospective - look at what college has degraded us into. Little numbers with IQ attached. How attractive... | |
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08-09-2005, 01:29 PM
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#94 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Agawam, MA
Posts: 15
| SAT scores, definitely--test anxiety | |
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08-11-2005, 10:23 PM
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#95 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: University of Pennsylvania
Posts: 631
| extracurrics
more real stuff, more research and science competitions | |
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08-18-2005, 01:07 AM
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#96 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 58
| GPA without a doubt
My grades suck really bad. I wish I hadn't slacked as much as I did sophomore year | |
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08-26-2005, 02:47 AM
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#97 | | New Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 7
| grades. i slacked off so badly soph year and it was supposed to be the easiest year too.
frosh gpa 3.83
soph gpa 3.76
disgusting, isn't it? | |
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08-26-2005, 02:10 PM
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#98 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 71
| i put sat scores...though i did well, i could have done sooo much better if i actually studied. wasted money at a prep course and i didn't even do the work they assigned me. should have bought prep books for the subject tests...yeahhh. that's about it. | |
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08-27-2005, 05:16 AM
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#99 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 182
| my SATs.... my grades, ecs, etc are all okay but i do so terribly on standardized tests like the SAT....1910...if only i can somehow bump that up to the 2000s...
PoloniusMouth: how much would you say by "bombed" | |
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08-27-2005, 10:35 AM
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#100 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: somewhere in the world...
Posts: 229
| I wish I could get a 2400 on my SAT and some awesome international awards... some leaderships could also help me.. also many 800 SATIIs will also be good...i'm fine with my GPA.. 3.9/4.0.. kinda satisfied./..;; | |
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08-29-2005, 08:33 PM
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#101 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Oregon
Posts: 104
| mudafueken EC's i had no idea they were so importante | |
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09-01-2005, 06:43 PM
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#102 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 262
| ...my EC's
people tell me they aren't enough.
Would have done sports
would have done more
i have only 10 or so or so | |
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09-02-2005, 08:45 PM
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#103 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 196
| Definitely my ECs.
As a freshman, I was sure I wanted to be a lawyer. I participated in Mock Trials and discovered... I didn't really like it. So I went through a period in my sophomore and junior years in which I really didn't know what I wanted to do, and as a result I have virtually no ECs (two small one year things, that's it). In retrospect, it would have been better to join ECs solely to impress colleges (as disgusting as I think that is) rather than actually looking for things that I'd actually want to be in. Part of my problem is that I've always gotten good grades not because I wanted to get into a good college, but rather because I just wanted to get them and it came natural to me. As a result, I never really seriously thought about college and my career until late into my junior year. Now, I'm looking at a great GPA and class rank, a very good SAT, and nothing in terms of ECs, which should be the most controllable thing on my application. | |
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09-02-2005, 09:33 PM
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#104 | | New Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 27
| i put ECs, wish I had more of a passion
also would like to improve SAT Is, people on this site make me feel like an underachiever | |
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09-06-2005, 09:36 PM
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#105 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Memphis,TN just moved here from IN
Posts: 1,073
| I would definitely change my GPA now that im filling out apps i just look back at my classes and think i couldve gotten a 4.0 easy if i actually tried instead of partying ... but i'll still probably get into my 1st choice Ohio university so who cares | |
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