<p>Any regrets or things you would have done differently?</p>
<p>Since I'm starting this thread, I might as well post my thoughts as well.</p>
<p>I don't have any regrets (fortunately, but part of that reason is because I can shrug off anything unfortunate).</p>
<p>I applied to: Princeton (ED), Brown (8-year PLME), JHU (BME), Cornell (Eng.), Harvard, UVA, Univ. MD, and Coll. of William and Mary (schools are listed in order of my preference)</p>
<p>Well, I was accepted to all the public schools (UMCP, UVA, W&M) and Cornell, rejected from Princeton (after deferral) and Brown, and waitlisted at Harvard and JHU.</p>
<p>I'm really happy with my results. The only thing I probably would have done differently would be to apply Cornell ED to save myself all that trouble of doing RD apps :D</p>
<p>I applied to Princeton, Yale, Stanford (EA), U Oregon Honors, GWU, Brandeis, Tufts, and Grinnell.</p>
<p>I got into U Oregon Honors, GWU, and Grinnell. I was waitlisted at Brandeis and Tufts.</p>
<p>In retrospect...I would've liked a bit more advice from my college counseling office. I was done with my UO, GWU, and Grinnell applications by Oct. 31. If I'd just stopped there, I would've had a much easier senior year.</p>
<p>I don't have any real regrets. Sometimes I wonder how things would have turned out if I had done it differently. </p>
<p>I applied Early Decision to Wake Forest and was accepted. It was my top choice and I am absolutely excited to go there and completely happy with my decision. </p>
<p>But at the same time I feel like I disappointed a lot of people in my choice. My school is very much into the prestige factor. Being an international school they love to brag about the world famous universities their graduates go to. I know many of my teachers were disappointed that I didn't apply to any Ivies. Some of them feel like I let them or the school down or worse I let myself down. There's nothing to really do differently, but I wish I didn't have to deal with that attitude.</p>
<p>I applied to Case Western, Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd, MIT, Princeton, WashU, Vanderbilt, University of Tennessee, and Rice.</p>
<p>I was accepted everywhere but WashU and Princeton, both of which I was waitlisted at.</p>
<p>After getting the financial aid awards from some, I wouldn't have bothered with Case, Carnegie Mellon, and Harvey Mudd (especially!).</p>
<p>I wouldn't have bothered with schools I wasn't excited to attend like WashU or UT.</p>
<p>I would have made my list more top heavy since the best schools generally have the best financial aid.</p>
<p>In retrospect, I feel hopeless and screwed, but thankful at the same time that Vanderbilt came up with a good scholarship and amazing financial aid, otherwise it would have been UT for me.</p>
<p>Geebus! They should be happy for you that you got into your first choice. Wake Forest is a well known school here in the US (although over there in Munich.... idk).</p>
<p>My school's valedictorian last year (1400+ SAT, at least 7 APs, got 5's on all of them except for one where she got a 4) chose to attend a completely unknown school in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>All I know is that she's gonna stand out and knock everyone silly when she gets into a top-ranked grad program.</p>
<p>i have only two regrets:
1) I wish I would have applied to Dartmouth
2) I wish I wouldn't have saved my Amherst essay for last because it was rushed and could have been better... may have made the difference between accepted and waitlisted</p>
<p>but overall I am thrilled with my college results and I'm so happy with the choices I have! I certainly never expected the results. It is strange that I was waitlisted at my top two choices and accepted at some schools that I didn't really think were as high on my list... yet somehow they seem a lot more attractive now! The new problem is how will I decide?</p>
<p>Not sure if this falls under the category..
But I really screwed up third quarter. My quarter GPA is about 1.1 lower than my cumulative.. and I got into all the uni's I applied to! My first choice was the University of Washington in Seattle.. like i said, i'm in - but i'm scared ****less they'll withdraw my acceptance when I send them my 2nd semester grades! So yeah, that's my regret.
Anyone know if 2th semester senior grades are all that important once you're in?</p>
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<li><p>I wish I would've only applied to JHU under the reach category- my 2 other reach schools took my time away from this application and I didn't get to do the truly special thing I wanted to for the essay. </p></li>
<li><p>I would've applied to more match schools. I really like Emory, and Skidmore, and Rochester. </p></li>
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<p>3.I would have applied to more out of state schools. I really wanted to go out of state and I banked all on 3 reaches. bad idea.</p>
<p>That's it. And they're actually not big regrets. More like if I would do it again what would I change. I'm not sulking at all. I'm a happy camper.</p>
<p>I wish I had applied to more LACs and less Universities. Honestly, after this whole thing, I believe that I'm much more of a LAC kinda person. I'm not really sure what I want to do, and I also learn much better in a smaller environment. Luckily I applied to Middlebury just as a last-minute add-on, as I am now seriously considering it. I probably would apply to Williams, Swarthmore, Haverford, Amherst, Carlton, Colby, etc. More of a list like that (on top of my Colgate and Middlebury). At least I have a decision between those two anyway...</p>
<p>i am happy with the way things turned out. I applied to 12 schools and was accepted to 7, waitlisted at one. Everyone told me that I applied to too many reaches, which i think is true but i was accepted to 2 schools that were considered reaches for me. Now i feel like i applied to too many match schools because i am turning them all down :P. I guess my biggest regret was not thinking about college earlier in high school, but i do think that my focus and genuine interest in my ECs paid off!</p>
<p>I wouldn't have applied to quite as many schools, and I would have stressed out less.</p>
<p>I applied to UCLA, UCB, UCSD, UCD, UCI, and UCSB as well as Pitzer, Scripps, Wellesley, GWU, Georgetown, Tufts, and JHU, and I don't even want to think about how much I spent total in application fees, sending my SAT scores, filing the CSS Profile, and so on so forth. It's excessive to apply to so many, especially when one is being pretty realistic about one's chances (five safeties is WAY too many) and in the end I just felt dumb because I wasn't even excited about hearing from some of them, just because I had applied without thinking about them.</p>
<p>Ultimately, I'm happy with the choices I have, and would not have initially applied to some of them if I had not expanded my list so drastically out of the fear of not getting in anywhere, it just involved a lot of stress/busy-ness that possibly detracted from focusing better on certain applications (my UC long essay was horrendous).</p>
<p>Well, I did have many regrets, like spending barely any time on apps and essays, not doing enough ECs in high school, not enough leadership/work experience, not applying anywhere early, not getting to know my recommeneders enough, only tkaing 1 AP junior year, and slacking off throughout high school. I was getting ready to regret all of those things, and more, but I ended up getting into all of my schools, including Harvard, Duke, Rice(merit aid), WashU, CMU, Tufts, and BU(full tuition scholarship). So, I guess I have no regrets now, because if I had done anything differently, I would have had to try harder (and I hate working).</p>
<p>I am happy with my results (I applied to 11 schools and was accepted at 10). But now that it is all over, I wish I hadn't applied to so many schools. Having to pick 1 school from a group of 10 great schools is going to be a hard decision. But I can say this, it is a decision that I am happy to make...</p>