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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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09-16-2005, 11:03 PM
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#106 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 95
| I would re-do...all of it.
I didn't become serious about college until my junior year, so I got on the bandwagon WAY too late. As a senior now, preparing to apply, I've got no volunteer hours, no community service, barely two or three ECCs, and my SAT scores are absolutely abysmal.
Would that I could do it all again... | 
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09-17-2005, 08:48 PM
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#107 | | New Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 12
| my tenth grade grades and my eleventh grade class choices.. I think If i could go back in time I would quit student council, and spend more time in academics | |
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09-20-2005, 06:45 PM
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#108 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 413
| I would DEFINITELY change extracurriculars, join some clubs like FBLA, the school newspaper & get some leadership position, do more volunteer work & basically do more leadership things. | |
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10-06-2005, 09:36 AM
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#109 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Azusa, CA
Posts: 74
| my gpa, definitely! | |
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10-18-2005, 10:21 AM
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#110 | | New Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 1
| test
this is a test for the forum test | |
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10-19-2005, 02:18 PM
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#111 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 173
| the interview, im cringing just thinking about it | |
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10-19-2005, 10:46 PM
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#112 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 935
| my ECs, but I would rather just go to UT because of their auto acceptance than do a bunch of pointless ECs to get into Ivys. I also had a horrible interview at Scripps, but I decided not to apply later anyway. | |
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10-26-2005, 02:59 AM
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#113 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 55
| Obviously...
SATs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HATE THEM!!!
WISH SOMEONE PLANS A TERROR ATTACK IN ETS HEADQUARTERS,
or just change my score for me  | |
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10-26-2005, 08:02 AM
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#114 | | New Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 4
| darn my SAT verbal scores..
i have 740 math, and yet, my verbal scores are CR-480 WR-530
GERRR!!!!
if only i could speak english better...
if only i had lived in America since i was little...
is anyone a hacker here? if you are one, can you like, hack the collegeboard website and change my grades? pretty please?? cherry on top <3 | |
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10-27-2005, 10:03 PM
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#115 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: So Cal
Posts: 238
| Definetely EC's. I have great test scores and grades (at least in my opinion), but my lame EC's and the fact that I only have a few of them make the better schools slight reaches for me when most other kids with my stats are in because they have done a lot outside of school. My life would be so much easier if I had just done some volunteer work and tried running for office for a club or two...oh well. | |
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10-29-2005, 11:11 AM
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#116 | | New Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Virginia USA
Posts: 12
| ECs, probably (unless my grades suddenly divebomb : ) I never joined a sport until junior year because I always thought I wasn't atheletic enough... but next year I'll be on the varisty team. I hate that colleges will probably see me as someone who started a sport just to put it on their college apps, because that wasn't my intention at all : ( | |
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11-04-2005, 11:53 PM
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#117 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 56
| i wouldn't change much, because everything i'm in, I enjoy. if anything, i'd change myself so that i would do a little less but with more community service. but, all in all, i'm happy. 4.56 weighted gpa, 2290 SAT, 780 math level 2, 760 ush, 720 chem, prez of nhs, drama (25 hrs/wk), etc, etc.
i do wish i could write better. | |
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11-08-2005, 04:06 PM
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#118 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 286
| S2dalcomiS2, I totally understand how you feel!!!! | |
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11-10-2005, 08:18 PM
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#119 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 2,059
| I just wish SATs would die. | |
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11-11-2005, 11:48 PM
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#120 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bay Area, CA ---> New Haven, CT
Posts: 2,050
| i would definitely change my GPA. I wish I had cared more about my freshman/sophomore grades. I relied too much on the reputation of my school as difficult, but I don't know how far that will carry me. We'll see when December rolls around. | |
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