<p>I am asking this cause I have come to realize that I would change a number of details if I still had my applications. I am wondering if anyone else is in the same boat?</p>
<p>I had a couple regrets while waiting (I worked hard on my essays, but there’s always something). One day I was 100% certain I’d get accepted, the next I was planning out courses at my old school and preparing to accept the inevitable. The letter was a complete surprise that changed my week from terrible to incredibly awesome in the span of the five minutes between getting a package notice and opening the envelope at the mail center. You just have to wait, and no amount of anxiety will make a difference now.</p>
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<li>Revise my essay one last time -I realized I could have added more details about the school I’m hoping to get into.</li>
<li>Apply to one more safety.</li>
<li>It took me too long to realize that I needed to retake ACTs; I wish I studied for them the entire summer before CC.</li>
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<p>I just discovered three serious typos in my UChicago supplement. The most amusing? “I am English major.”</p>
<p>Oh well, too late to do anything about it now.</p>
<p>saying uchicago spends 3 hundred billion a year in research (million)</p>
<p>and writing incorrectly about a cornell tradition</p>
<p>I also feel like my essays could have been better, but would we really be great candidates if we thought nothing could be improved? It’s both a gift and a curse to strive to make things perfect =] </p>
<p>At least it’s out of our hands now, just wish the decisions didn’t take so long!</p>
<p>^I like that thinking :D</p>
<p>Ok, I was dumb enough to apply like 3 weeks before the deadline, and I applied to so many schools everything was falling out of place for me. I couldn’t get things on time and all of the teacher forms and HS things are so hard to get. This is my last semester in a 2-year school and I’m just tied up in a knot. I don’t even think I’ll get in because they’re still asking me for forms. I guess I might as well wait to apply for next year and next time be more smart about it. Total regret!!</p>
<p>Lots of students have to submit incomplete or not received forms Julia, that shouldn’t hurt you at all actually.</p>
<p>i wish i had re-taken my SATs again. other than that, nothing major.</p>
<p>i will extremely regret it if i don’t get to any of the schools that i’m applying to.</p>
<p>i applied to 10 schools (which means around 1000 dollars for the app. fees, SAT scores, official transcript, post stamps, etc) and i worked tremendously hard on my essays so that i have been doing really badly this semester (i only got B+ in all of my classes).</p>
<p>spending $1000 and having GPA going down to rock bottom, well… it’s better be worth it!</p>
<p>I have no regret because I’ve already tried the best I can.</p>
<p>My essays so far have been mediocre. The main ones, anyway. When I sit down to type, all of my passion for hating this place disappear and I’m left wondering “WHYYYY AM I PUTTING MYSELF THROUGH THIS??!?! I already have so much other stuff!” And I wish I had someone to read over them, but so far I’ve felt really touchy about the subject of transferring. But my supplements were semi-fun. Wish there were more!</p>
<p>Still have two more sets of essay; luckily I care about these schools somewhat more…plus I got spring break next week to worry about them! :)</p>
<p>doing almost the same thing as last year. i waited a week before the deadline to do like 9 apps, only to find out it takes me an average of 6 hours to write a passable essay, let alone a good one. ugh why!!! i thought i learned from last year…i’m going to make the 3 schools i have left (nyu NU and barnard) FREAKIN COUNT. Already wrote my nyu and barnard essays, working on NU right now. And i realized my CA transfer essay was a little too abstract, even though i revised it like 5 times a few hours before my first deadline, adding in ~10 reasons why i should transfer. why can’t i be a naturally amazing writer???</p>
<p>It was yesterday, while sitting at Border’s I grabbed a book on college admissions essays. Even though I had already sent out my applications I thought I’d look through it anyway. Well, I sort of regret doing so. After reading a section titled “Do’s and Don’ts on your admissions essay” I realized most of my GU -Why Georgetown?- essay fell into the don’t aisle. / : However, I feel a bit better now, having read another text that seems to contradict the previous one. Everyone seems to have a different opinion when it comes to what you should keep and what you should lose in an essay. For me, I’ll just keep my fingers crossed and keep flooding online prayer chains with my requests. ( :</p>
<p>This is sort of off topic, but has anyone noticed that there are virtually no texts out there for transfer students? I mean there are a plethora of books dedicated to HS students in preparation for college. But, I’ve yet to find one dedicated to CC students or Xfers?</p>
<p>yeah even transfer threads like this are less populated then freshman ones which I find weird, because cc people have to leave after 2 years and transfer so there should be a lot idk</p>
<p>A funny thing I’ve noticed about my CC -I am not sure if this is true to most- is that so many of the students not only stay more than two years, but many have been attending for 4 or more years. I find it comical when a student will brag about having a 4.0 at my CC when they have taken between 3-6 credits a semester. I have a 3.7, but I’ve taken 20 credits a semester and it still isn’t all that hard. But anyways, that’s beyond the point. I think that the population of transfer students from CCs and colleges in general is a rather small population as compared to the explosive number of college-bound HS students. Furthermore, the many parents who post on here on their behalf add a great deal to HS thread traffic. </p>
<p>When I graduated HS, I was dead-set on attending a prestigious institution right after graduation. I learned that wasn’t a good idea; for myself at-least. So, I finally swallowed my unfounded pride and attending my local CC and I ended up loving it. The professors are of excellent quality; most of my teachers of graduated from top universities. The best part is my tuition for this semester -taking 20 credits- was only $1,700, that’s awesome! haha I suppose a downside is a lack of student involvement.</p>
<p>Vegas247: Just curious to know, what were some of the ‘do nots’ for Georgetown essays?</p>
<p>If someone on CC gets accepted to all the schools they applied to (with several top 10 in the mix), then that person should write a book for the rest of us overlooked denizens =)</p>
<p>Hahah… I really hope I will qualify to do that.
Just got accepted to American. It was a safety for me but hearing back so soon, and actually getting into a school this time (didn’t get into any as a freshman) pretty much made my day.
And yes! I have been looking around for books for transfers and found non.</p>