<ol>
<li>No sports.</li>
<li>Not doubling up (for which I still hit myself on the head occasionally >.< &$%# GC’s)</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Not taking more AP classes or doing more AP tests (including self-studying)</li>
<li>Actually studying for my SAT II’s </li>
<li>Not cramming for the SAT’s (I crammed everything in one week - I got nearly perfect on everything except vocab which apparently you can’t cram for lol)</li>
<li>Gotten my philosophy papers published</li>
<li>Doing more academic competitions (bringing more to my school…)</li>
<li>Studying more for some of my classes (all my B’s were literally .5% away from an A)</li>
<li>Gone to a different school district</li>
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<p>*Not taking Health and Life Skills the summer BEFORE HS started. Both classes were mandatory for all people in my state (Cali). This made me take it Sr Year of HS and it took away a class which I could’ve been taking AP Chem
*Not taking AP Chem (see above)
*Sr yr course load was not rigorous enough. (see above)
*Not trying hard enough on the SAT’s
*NEVER even considered taking the ACT’s (probably my largest mistake, b/c my SAT were awful)</p>
<p>SENIORITIS.</p>
<p>It caught up to me come first quarter of college.
And it hurt.</p>
<p>I have 2 B’s, both of them were less than .2% from an A 
My fault for getting involved in petty stuff…</p>
<p>My other one would be starting music competitions too late.</p>
<p>My biggest mistakes are by far my latenesses and procrastination tendencies. Also my attitude because I kind of hated my AP World History teacher and he knew it, and he wasnt afraid to show it on my transcript with a 70 even though I got a 5 on the test and was one of the smartest people in the class :/</p>
<p>Unlike most of you guys, I didn’t slack off freshmen year. However, I would say that my biggest mistake is staying at a tough high school. You feel extremely depressed when everyone around you is getting 2350’s and have 4.0’s when you don’t.</p>
<ul>
<li>Slacking off Freshman Year (especially in Algebra II)</li>
<li>Not starting online classes sooner</li>
</ul>
<p>I could list a multitude of factors. I think that it’s beneficial to focus on the positive aspects.</p>
<p>No regrets. I did what I wanted to.</p>
<p>not doing as well as i could’ve fresh and soph years. freshman gpa W-96.87, soph gpa W-97.4, freaking junior first semester gpa W- 101.67(probably highest junior gpa with heavy course load as well), oh well. at least theres an upward trend. and maybe the adcoms will sympathize b/c of my junior gpa.</p>
<p>I accidentally killed a man without thinking about the consequences it may bring when it comes to college applications…</p>
<p>on a more serious note, I have allowed procrastination to kill my gpa in the past years.</p>
<p>No regret yet, hopefully won’t have any.</p>
<p>Freshman GPA.</p>
<p><em>cries</em></p>
<p>No regrets but I do think that 1) I was expecting too much out of myself in a very short span of time
2) Not enough time …a result of a rushing everything ( I skipped a grade right after immigrating to a new country) </p>
<p>So I think i did pretty good for my challenge …its just I am probably aiming really very high for my limits and abilities at present. So I would suggest people think carefully and then decide whether or not the challenges they are undertaking are attainable without going insane.</p>
<p>Not seriously caring about college until halfway through junior year (which is now).</p>
<p>By then I already gotten several A-'s where I could have gotten A’s, and I underperformed in PE. My GPA went downhill, although I suppose I’m fortunate it didn’t go below 3.8 weighted.</p>
<p>Also, by then all the college rep visits and college fairs had come and gone. I went to zero.</p>
<p>haha the opposite for me</p>
<p>my entire freshman year-beautiful, still committed to my studies, didn’t let anything distract me or get to me from school, nada
the rest of highschool-unproductive, wanted highschool to be an experience i never had in middle school since i was always studying and doing my homework all i cared about was school (which isn’t a bad thing of course) but still you know…and so i took a break from school and did myself a favor, or so i thought, and get out for once. It eventually got to me. I’m still a senior in highschool and cannot wait to get out of here! I’m not a horrible student i still care about school and everything but now I just have more distractions or I’m just more easily distracted. :-[ But I’m still keeping my head up and reaching my future goal ! which makes me more excited everytime I think about it ! I just look at it as thats highschool for ya ! All the dumb tension and distractions you just can’t get enough of and move on.</p>
<ol>
<li>Slacking off in math, period.</li>
<li>Procrastination and sheer laziness, which I’m still trying to deal with sometimes</li>
<li>Being asian, but like someone said before, I can’t fix that. :D</li>
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<p>oh yah and considering that i didn’t know sophomore and junior year were the most important. Well junior yeah, but sophomore, had nooo clueee</p>
<p>getting my first ever C in my whole life sophomore year. I also got my second this year, Calculus AB. The teacher was not the right fit for me and the teacher who gave me both C’s</p>