<p>Definitely my GPA, but also I wish I hadn’t procrastinated to do my apps! :(</p>
<p>GPA. I slacked freshman year and a little sophomore year. I also wish I took an AP class =/</p>
<p>Mostly my grades-got B’s and C’S-so not good enough! And in retrospect I should have probably spent more times on my essay and doing extracurricular activities but mostly my grades!</p>
<p>GPA–i messed up two semesters which skewed my almost perfect grades : S
also my sophomore year my college councelor didn’t let me take AP Spanish and AP US History or Honors Geometry, which I think kinda messed up a part of my transcript
i just messed up my whole sophomore year in general
i should have taken geometry and algebra two at the same time in 10th grade. and i should’ve started chem in 11th.<br>
i wasn’t very college-oriented until like second semester of 11th grade, and i didn’t really know what was going on AT ALL. plus my parents didn’t really care what classes i took :S
and i took too many theater courses thinking i would be an actor <em>dammit</em>
AND i should’ve studied for the SAT more.
^^this is what happens when you go to rural public schools in Idaho and Ohio…and when no one in your family has gone to college outside of mexico and Indiana University
…i don’t think anyone cares but it’s good to vent haha. i like this forum :D</p>
<p>I should have taken three years of German instead of two years of Latin…having only two years of FL instead of three makes you an automatic reject at many LACs, including, but not limited to, my beloved Kenyon and Hamphire.</p>
<p>This might sound pretty bad, but to be honest, my race</p>
<p>I just really wish I’d realized earlier on how important ECs were. I’ve worked so hard on getting good grades and I am among the people with the highest grades in our class (our school doesn’t rank so I don’t know for sure) but I feel like my ECs will let me down. I’m part of a bunch of things but I’m only doing 2 in actual depth. I should really have tried to do some more startling things… like start my own business or sing in an opera.</p>
<p>Well I took math classes that count for college in middle school, and I didn’t take them seriously at all! Got B’s and C’s. Once I got to high school, I realized those grades would show up on my college apps :\ At least they don’t count for GPA… whew!</p>
<p>and what math classes are those?</p>
<p>Pretty much everything, but EC’s especially. I only did Mock Trial throughout High School and student council one year. Looking at my yearbook and seeing such a scarcity next to my name makes me :/</p>
<p>really, though. one more A or one more EC wouldn’t/won’t make that much difference in an application anyways. ditto with an extra 10 points on the SAT (although higher jumps in scores might…)</p>
<p>I wouldn’t change anything. </p>
<p>I don’t understand why everyone wants to be who colleges want them to be instead of being themselves. If you don’t want to join a club because you hate it, then don’t join it. Do what YOU want to do. Do what YOU enjoy, not what you think colleges will “like.” What’s the point if you’re miserable?!</p>
<p>In my case, I do genuinely wish I did more and did better, not just to make my resume shinier, but for my own personal growth and benefit.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 weighted GPA which is “decent” </p>
<p>But SAT scores are BAD (1800)</p>
<p>APPLY TO LOTS OF SCHOOLS… Not 5… Honestly, what was I thinking? My safeties? Duke and Cornell W.T.F… I am an idiot. My test scores disagree, but I am an idiot… To everyone out there APPLY TO MORE THAN 5 SCHOOLS. April 1st is gonna be one hell of a stressful. Can just imagine getting rejected from my safeties and then having to look at YALE PRINCETON and HARVARD knowing that I need to get into one of them… Yes, 7% chance is good. And I’m an international, needing almost full financial aid. So, 7% is actually great compared to the 3% I am getting. </p>
<p>APPLY TO LOTS OF SCHOOLS!</p>
<p>ACT scores… although my gpa is ok, I know i could’ve made my score rise significantly.
I got a 28, but with 32’s in reading writing and a 29 in science. and a great 17 in math… I really have no idea what happened. -_- killed my chances for the upper tier uc’s.</p>
<p>Learned vocabulary before the SAT… </p>
<p>oh, and did cooler extracurriculars freshman year, and not waste two whole summers doing nothing productive!</p>
<p>O__O I think I would change not knowing what “looked good” for schools. I didn’t know until this year that ECs were so important, or how competitive colleges are. It would probably have been more helpful to join rotary (community service club) freshman year instead of playing tennis and reading or rummaging through the woods :P</p>
<p>This is totally random (and I’m not sure it’s the right place =P), but I know at this point that I’m not going to get a 4.0. If I pull off straight A’s for the rest of high school, I’ll only get a 3.96, actually. Does anyone know how much a 3.8 vs. 3.9 will matter to colleges?</p>
<p>SATs for sure! I’d give myself a 2400 
that’d be nice</p>