:: The Transfer Applicant Mistakes Thread ::

Transfer Students
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<p>Since most of us have completed all of our transfer applications or are in the process of completing them, what mistakes have you made that you regret? Also, this should be helpful for future transfer applicants.</p>

<p>As for me, I applied to WAY TOO MANY schools. I was only planning to apply to 4, but that number increased to 10 -_- I wouldn’t even consider going to half of the schools I applied to, and so much money was wasted. If I think about it now, I think 5 is the perfect number. 2 far-reach schools, 1 slight-reach, 1 match school, and 1 safety.</p>

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<p>Another mistake?</p>

<p>Not taking enough classes.</p>

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<p>Taking too many classes.</p>

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<p>Another mistake?</p>

<p>Wasting too much of my time on CC.</p>

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<p>lol janel…agreed!</p>

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<p>i forgot to check the “are you applying for financial aid” box. eek. i need to call and change that.</p>

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<p>hahaa I almost did that. I was like Dad am I applying for fin aid? He’s like “um yea,” so I had to change it. The mistake I probably did was not submit any of my FAFSA/CSS or submit at an extremely late date.</p>

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<p>i forgot to bribe the adcoms =(</p>

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<p>takin hard classes cause you are overconfident your first semester…helloooo C</p>

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<p>Copying and pasting an essay, and forgetting to change the first school’s name I had applied to, to the name of the other school. Eek.</p>

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<p>Oh God, I’ve always thought of how horrible it would be to accidently do that. Where did you apply Jesminder?</p>

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<p>It’s not really a mistake…more of a birth defect…but i’m left handed so when I filled out the Brown application (it has glossy paper) I smeared the ink straight across with my hand. -_-</p>

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<p>“Copying and pasting an essay, and forgetting to change the first school’s name I had applied to, to the name of the other school. Eek.”</p>

<p>Ouch… so did you contact the school?</p>

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<p>Haha, I did that last year for Northwestern. I wrote one for Duke then revised it and realized after I turned it in that I had “Northwestern University” in the Duke essay. Oops.</p>

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<p>i hear ya beechbum. smearing and getting **** all over the side of your hand is the only bad thing about being left handed. us left-handers control the world muahahah.</p>

<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_left-handed_people[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_left-handed_people&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>green did u get into Duke lol?</p>

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<p>Not working hard enough/doing too much in 1st semester and ended up with ****ty GPA. Looking better this semester tho. But will that matter…</p>

<p>Hahaha I like the forgot to bribe the adcoms one.</p>

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<p>nosx, No way. hehe, not too proud about it though. eek</p>

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<p>lol that was the funniest thing I’ve read online all week…gorilamask is still funny though.</p>

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<ol>
<li>Masochistically sellecting the schools that have the highest probability of rejecting me and then applying to all of them and nowhere else.</li>
<li>Bombing the Harvard application absolutely and relatively to the ones that I did after that. </li>
<li>In the process of applying I let myself obsess with transferring and ended up detesting my school. Now the classes are unbearable.</li>
<li>Posting 815 times on this website.</li>
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