<p>I would have put in way more effory because if I did I would be in the top 10% of my class and situated pretty well.</p>
<p>I would purchase a time machine...</p>
<p>I would've worked on my apps more diligently.</p>
<p>stuff that everyone else has said, basically... I would have done more ECs and community service... ECs are okay for me, but definitely the weakest part of my application, as I've only done a few things and only had a couple of leadership positions (not big ones, at that). That's definitely what will always keep me out of HYP</p>
<p>I would have retaken my 650 in spanish, or better yet, I would have taken math iic instead or BIO... ugh, I did not take enough SAT IIs. </p>
<p>I would have applied to 1 or 2 more schools... true reaches, because as of now, I don't have any real super-reaches and I'll be sad. I should have applied to brown! and to northwestern, and WUSTL. :( oh, well, overall it's still good though.</p>
<p>hm...no regrets here actually.</p>
<p>Wish I'd applied to Williams and Bowdoin..and maybe less super-reaches, though we'll see what I think this thursday.</p>
<p>I think I've been really lucky. While I was waiting for decisions, I had a lot of regrets and pretty much found holes in my application everywhere. I could have taken a harder courseload, had more ECs, etc. But I've been lucky and it's just worked for me. I'm 5/5 including 2 schools that everyone thought were extreme reaches.</p>
<p>I didn't qualify for USAMO because I forgot to fill in ONE bubble for a correctly written response. Heh. Regretsregretsregrets...</p>
<p>messing up my sat i math score.. 2 wrong one omit = 720 :( gah careless mistakes. also, taking french. spanish would have been a lot more useful.</p>
<p>I don't have any really. I used to, but they were all pretty unfounded.</p>
<p>my biggest regret is not having enough FUN!</p>
<p>I wish that I had stressed myself out less over nothing. I wish I had done more work in the classes I considered a waste of time because in the end, it didn't matter whether to adcoms whether the teacher was an idiot, just that I got a B. I also really wish that I had worked harder in AP US because I had an awesome teacher and didn't take advantage of the class. Basically, within reason, I wish that I had worked hard enough to improve my GPA and not paid so much attention to the 98342 ECs I was involved in. In the end, even though I wanted to do everything I did, I stressed myself out a lot over nothing. </p>
<p>Also, I wish I had worked harder earlier on my apps and taken my Keystone courses over the summer so that I wouldn't have to worry about them now.</p>
<p>I wish I'd tried a lot harder freshman and sophomore year. I got a C in each of those years and had something like a 3.1 or 3.2 GPA following those two years. </p>
<p>In my junior year, a combination of more interesting subject matter (finally got into some classes that interested me, unlike Biology, Spanish, World History, etc) and more interesting/better teachers along with some sort of intrinsic motivation, I pulled off a 4.0 in 4 APs and 3 honors courses...and this year have done the same in 4 APs and 2 honors. </p>
<p>I did get into what ended up being my first choice college, but sometimes it bothers me to think that I definitely could have done much better earlier on than I did.</p>
<p>I wish that I had stressed myself out less over nothing.
I wish that I had stressed myself out less over nothing.
I wish that I had stressed myself out less over nothing.
I wish that I had stressed myself out less over nothing.
I wish that I had stressed myself out less over nothing.</p>
<p>Waiting until tomorrow to ask a girl to prom.</p>
<p>I would have applied to michigan, because my aunt works in the admissions office and i'm a legacy. I also would've applied to UCLA, because I'm a legacy there, as well.</p>
<p>Biggest regret?</p>
<p>Junior year.</p>
<p>Not studying for the SATs, then not retaking them (after believing barely breaking 2000 was "good enough.") Not getting involved soon enough. Saving the UC application until the night of, where I turned in in with less than a minute to spare. Not taking APs seriously. Not taking any correspondence from UCB seriously and ignoring their e-mails since I thought I was not Cal material.</p>
<p>Biggest regret? Nothing, becuase i learned a lot more in HS than I would have if I didnt do what i needed to do. And I'm not talking about a school subject.</p>
<p>"I wish I had done more work in the classes I considered a waste of time because in the end, it didn't matter whether to adcoms whether the teacher was an idiot, just that I got a B."</p>
<p>amen to that.
sometimes i think some of the things i'm learning is a waste but what you said is dead on. they don't care. just that you got a b.
lesson to all future graduates!</p>