<p>Personally, I wish I had applied to more schools/reaches because I think I limited my options because I thought I wasn't good enough.:o</p>
<p>^^^ Exactly. But for my classmates really. One of my teachers kept on telling students' "Oh, there's NO way you can get into X school" so alot of kids didn't apply to some really get schools. I feel bad for them, because we have some amazing students. Also, I wish I'd applied to schools on the West Coast. Most of my schools are up north, lol</p>
<p>after being rejected so much i wish i had applied to more schools just to be accepted more, but thats silly, i know that the places i applied back in the fall are the right ones and of course, id probably end up going to the same school, so its silly to just want to apply to be accepted.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>This process could not have ended any better.</p>
<p>And yes.</p>
<p>I wish I had not wasted so much time fretting over the fivilous process that is college admissions. I read into so many books, articles, blogs, and forums. I visited far too many schools and did not realise how much of a waste they really were until the end of my search (my first overnight). I have spent far too much time and conversation that could have been utilized otherwise.</p>
<p>I wished I applied to more safties</p>
<p>Well, it's not over for me yet, but I wish I hadn't applied to Johns Hopkins and Cornell, since I've almost completely lost interest in them over the past few months. I wish I had instead applied to Brown and Smith, both of which I loved, but didn't apply to because I didn't think their engineering programs were strong enough. In reality, they are just fine for undergrad engineering.</p>
<p>OH yes, I wish I had:</p>
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<p>Retaken those cursed SATs more times than I did. Applied to more reaches. Only applied to one. Rejection! Not taken the IB. What a great way to spend 2 years. I did love TOK though.</p>
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<p>Anyway, whatever. Admissions are a crapshoot.</p>
<p>I wish I had taken the SAT's more seriously and aimed for a 2300+ instead of allowing myself to falsely believe that my essays and extracurriculars would help me, as an unhooked applicant, get into a top school...</p>
<p>I wish I had applied to one college (probably Caltech) my junior year just for practice. I probably wouldn't have screwed up my Stanford SCEA so badly if I had done something junior year.</p>
<p>I wish I had done a lot of things differently:</p>
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<li>prepare better for the SATs. (Got too low of a score)</li>
<li>apply to more reach schools/ schools on the east coast. I was set on the West and didn't think I wanted to touch the East at all, but now my top choice is an east coast school. Hopefully I get in!</li>
<li>know everything I know about college apps and stuff back then.</li>
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<p>same exact reasons as the OP. i only applied to 5, but i realized that out of those 5, i really only loved 2 of them, which wasn't so good. i feel like even though i was accepted at them all, i was limited in some way.</p>
<p>Same as the OP, for me. I was really depressed this fall so I was undervaluing myself. It's not even that I didn't apply to excellent schools (ranked in the 20-35 range), or that there's anywhere else I particularly wanted to go, but it's frustrating somehow that I didn't "aim higher." I have one school left to hear from (out of six). It was the most rigorous one, and I'm almost hoping to be rejected, haha.</p>
<p>Apart from that, I should have just stressed less. I had high grades, 99th percentile test scores, dedicated ECs, and strong essays. Looking back, it seems silly to have worried, but I'll bet you it had something to do with this site.</p>
<p>i wish i learned about college and its selectivity much sooner so i couldve worked harder. but o well, im not surprised at any of my acceptances/rejections and i can hardly believe that its almost over...
march flew by so quickly</p>
<p>I wish I would have gotten more involved earlier in my high school career. There were so many things I wish I could have done, but unfortunately I never discovered them until it was too late.</p>
<p>Meh. I'm sure I'll be happy where I end up, but it'd be nice to have a California school on the table.</p>
<p>I wish I would have applied right away for everything. 2 were rolling admissions, so I could have been accepted like back in October, and I wish I applied Early Action for the other two. Got into 3, waitlisted at 1. No regrets really.</p>
<p>more reaches</p>
<p>applied to more reaches...my parents tried to bully me into applying to where they thought i could get in(they said that our state flagship was a reach for me, when my guidance counselor said it was a safety...i thought it was a match). It's not that they were trying to harm me, it's that they were so out of touch with reality that I didn't end up getting a chance to apply to some schools I would have liked to apply to...ie Brown, Penn, Yale, and NYU</p>
<p>Fast forwarding to the present though...I do have a lot to be happy about. I got into my state flagship U, which is a great school at a great price (it's UNC-Chapel Hill btw), so I'm seriously considering going there. I also was offered a scholarship to attend Emory and I'm going to be visiting Notre Dame this week, where I was admitted EA. I was rejected by Duke :(. I still have to hear back from Columbia, but I'm expecting a rejection there, so the way I see it, I have 3 great options.</p>
<p>I really wish I would've applied to more reaches as well.</p>
<p>Dartmouth and Brown sound nice, right about now.</p>
<p>I wish I had taken the SAT II tests more seriously. As a Freshman and Sophomore in high school, you only hear about the SAT and ACT--not the subject tests. I randomly took them in the middle of a stressful Junior year. I chose Latin, Spanish, and Math 2 for no reason at all. It turns out these were ill-informed choices. I didn't get above a 670 and that's inconsistent with the rest of my efforts (GPA and ACT scores).
I'm confident that that was the reason I got wait-listed at Rice.</p>