<p>my race, i mean seriously, it can be quite advantageous</p>
<p>My E/C's .. I put so much time into them and I am truly passionate about my two main interests, which are politics & community service, but I think that it is honestly true that money is a huge factor and can help you get recognized widely if your family has connections or can pay your way for summer programs, lessons, etc. </p>
<p>Anyway, I am applying to Columbia, Princeton, & Yale this fall .. and I am nervous. So I guess I wish everything was a little better - it's all about getting an edge I guess.</p>
<p>SAT scores, just 'cause the 570 on reading is pathetic, along with the pitiful 560 on SAT II German and 660 on SAT U.S. History.</p>
<p>ECs, sort of, but more community/volunteer work than clubs.</p>
<p>i regret not trying my sophomore year</p>
<p>I wish I could change my GPA, if math classes were taken out of the picture, my gpa could be so much higher T_T</p>
<p>Yeah, my SAT scores aren't fabulous so...</p>
<p>Ah well.</p>
<p>I definitely regret not going to somewhere FAR FAR away.</p>
<p>sat score, i sucked on the reading and writing</p>
<p>It was a tough choice between the "applying to fewer schools" option and the "SAT or ACT scores" one, but I chose the second because you can never be satisfied with what you got (unless you got perfect). If I had one more point higher on my ACT, I could apply to so many more scholarships and be available to some full rides.</p>
<p>with all due respect, i think you could have perhaps added one more category...entitled: "The entire system".</p>
<p>i don't want to change anything about myself. my abilities and character are what they are. i just wish i could have lived my high school years to the fullest, instead of living for what i thought the colleges wanted me to achieve. my generation has evolved into nothing more than a bunch of "college admissions pleasers."</p>
<p>i think A.P. classes should be wiped off the face of the earth. i think more colleges should be built to accomodate how many students are applying. i think they should completely re-vamp admissions standards. how about a lottery system? colleges should have all kinds of us students, with a range of abilities. i mean, that's the way the world is. you don't get hired in a company that just has brainiacs. there should be no more homework on the weekends, holildays, and summers. way too much pressure.</p>
<p>i agree with rutgers hopeful..... its really not fair. high school has become into a competitive jungle of people basing others on their gpa or sat scores. i definitely could have lived my high school years more to the fullest if it wasn't like this. Now everything revolves around acronyms... APs/SATs/ACTs/IB. i mean i know we cant have it like how we all pictured high school to be like.. like out of a tv show like boy meets world or whatever.</p>
<p>it is a rough system that colleges have set up for their prospectives. but i guess we just have to deal.</p>
<p>I think it's really not the system that is wrong, but that there's something wrong with us for falling into the trap of thinking that we have to be perfect. Any college that we go to we shall be happy, even if it's not Harvard or Yale. We have merely forgotten how to live our lives for ourselves, and it's up to each and every one of us to fix that.</p>
<p>My E/C's .. I put so much time into them and I am truly passionate about my two main interests, which are politics & community service, but I think that it is honestly true that money is a huge factor and can help you get recognized widely if your family has connections or can pay your way for summer programs, lessons, etc.</p>
<p>GPA big big time</p>
<p>Grades. Everything else is decent. I got a 2030 on the SAT, which I'm satisfied with and my unweighted GPA is only 3.34.</p>
<p>Awesome poll! I said grades.</p>
<p>Not an option, but race</p>
<p>my letters of reccomendentation. They just sound so generic. I wish i had told my teachers to mention how much i luved mi college in mi reccomendations. That wud have really made me stand out</p>
<p>SAT scores. ACT was decent, but I completely bombed the sat.</p>
<p>GPA. I'd be competitive for so many top-tier schools if my GPA was actually good. :(</p>