Application: What is your greatest weakness?

Applying to College
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<p>Honestly, I have thought about it for a while, but I don’t have a great response.</p>

<p>I can’t think of anything that is really bad besides the fact that I tend to be lazy, slow, and bad at sticking to my plans.</p>

<p>But I don’t think I should say these to colleges</p>

<p>For all the other I can think of, I’m just mediocre, not really bad.</p>

<p>Such as history. History is my worst subject, but I never got below a B+, and they were AP classes too. (One of which I got a 5 on)
Or speaking. I’m not that great of a speaker whether it is public speaking or casual speaking, but it’s not like I’m terrible. I’m just not good. Besides, it is hard to explain how I’m bad with specific examples because I’m really not that bad.</p>

<p>So, I decided to write that I’m not that great at expressing my thoughts.</p>

<p>But, someone else told me that this is a very very bad response because it shows me that I’m unintelligible and thus will mean that I can’t get along well.</p>

<p>Well… I’m stuck.</p>

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<p>Just think of Kate on J&K+8, as in,“Am I perfect? No, sometimes I give too much, I am guilty of spending too much time with my children and trying too hard to give them the best of everything…”. In other words, what is called false modesty.</p>

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<p>I have a couple of C’s on my transcript. :-P</p>

<p>Boohoo.</p>

<p>And my ECs aren’t too much to brag about either…</p>

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<p>Strong ecs, but so-so GPA? Uhhhhh…</p>

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<p>Low SATs
Okay EC’s, nothing groundbreaking
meh, thats all i think, my GPA is proportionate to the schools im appyling to</p>

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<p>I think looking back it was definitely algebra…
I was a terrible student in middle school (I still have letters from the principal warning me i was in danger of failing the 7th grade. that bad) due to various issues; family problems, friend problems, etc.
While I did figure my stuff out freshman year (got a 4.0), I never really learned algebra 1, so algebra 2 and precalc were kind of catastrophes.</p>

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<p>Tests, grades, rank are all fine, but my ECs are terrible. It took me a while to figure out the whole “get involved” thing.</p>

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<p>i think the OP is asking for suggestions on what he could write for his weakness, not what all of your weaknesses are.</p>

<p>i think merryecho has a good point, you can always sort of fudge the answer and make your weakness actually put you in a more positive light.</p>

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<p>you’re right jax90291</p>

<p>I need some suggestion on what I should write for this question</p>

<p>Besides, “I have bad ECs” is not what you are going to write for this question.</p>

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<p>I don’t know if this could potentially pertain to you, but I’m writing about how I’m “overzealous” about my activities.</p>

<p>For “bad at sticking to my plans.” How about elaborating on that you are flexible? That makes this “weakness” into a strength.</p>

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<p>@Demiitasse</p>

<p>I can’t really use that because I said stuff about how I like to do so many different things and I have so many plans about them in mind</p>

<p>overzealous, I think is not bad. Although it doesn’t completely fit me, I’ll probably be able to find an example that does fit</p>

<p>Thanks. I hope I can receive more request or personal experience though cuz that’s probably not the best</p>

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<p>After a lot more thinking, I came across a really good one</p>

<p>How about “I’m way too candid. I’m really bad at lying that I can’t really cover up for others.”
Although I’m actually quite the opposite, I think this works!</p>

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<p>1 Strong EC - Could be viewed as either good or bad
Minimum volunteer hours :confused:
In a school full of smarter people…</p>