<p>Where did you screw up? Do you have any regrets ? Do you wish you did/didn't do something ? What went wrong ? </p>
<p>For me</p>
<p>sr year classes, a totall embarassment in comparison to ALL my other years (lack of interest in other AP's and requirments i HAD to finish to graduate) NOT a good year for me. </p>
<p>SAT scores sucked majorly, but i had good SAT2's. </p>
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<p>Bottom line: one thing will neither hurt/help you; two bad things will get you rejected ....
This is what i learned. Sometimes your not the kid the colleges are looking for, other times you don't get lucky. </p>
<p>I wish i had done a more complete job. I am stilll that i couldn't have done a better job. SO CLOSE and i DROPPED THE BALL! </p>
<p>I am SO confident i WOULD have made it to UCLA, Berkeley or at LEAST UCSD! My school sends so many kids there....</p>
<p>How about you ? its your turn !!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>No money. But its kinda not my fault. Im international and the exchange rate’s like Rs. 60 to a dollar.</p>
<p>Low GPA. I should have not slacked off in high school, and spent a lot more time on my essays.</p>
<p>Kinda Low SAT, but I didn’t have the time to invest in extra classes and sessions for practice like some of my friends</p>
<p>I defined “Chinese Male” in my application. Seriously, be it essays or extracurricular, I don’t think any application looked more stereotypically Asian.</p>
<p>^haha… but ditto. Chinese female for me =) all those gosh darn Asian geniuses are kind of hard to compete with when you’re not one of them</p>
<p>Yeah.. but when you start writing college essays about solving Calculus problems.. yeah that’s pretty bad.</p>
<p>Too bad I didn’t realize it until after it was too late. I still thought it was a great essay.</p>
<p>lollerpants… i feel for you. but i bet your essay was pretty bomb.</p>
<p>crappy GPA/test scores (i.e. no studying for anything-ever), wrote essay/sent in apps last minute, picked the “wrong” colleges, attended the “wrong” high school… (man, life sucks :()</p>
<p>Not being born an URM hurt me the most…</p>
<p>First, I think the OP wants to discuss areas of our application that we felt we did not complete adequately, though we could have. You can’t help not being a URM, but that doesn’t bring up any discussion about parts of your application you could have improved.</p>
<p>I think I should have dedicated more time on my essays and application. Also, I think I should have studied more for the SAT, and done my homework in the library my junior year when my house was cramped.</p>
<p>Overall though, I felt I represented myself very well. I guess I did something right…</p>
<p>for Cornell,</p>
<ol>
<li>not going to interview (Ouch…)</li>
<li>putting wrong information</li>
<li>sending wrong common app (2006-2007 not 2007-2008) LOL</li>
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<p>realized everything went wrong mid-november, so i expected rejection.</p>
<p>Where did you screw up? Do you have any regrets ? Do you wish you did/didn’t do something ? What went wrong ? </p>
<p>For me</p>
<p>sr year classes, a totall embarassment in comparison to ALL my other years (lack of interest in other AP’s and requirments i HAD to finish to graduate) NOT a good year for me. </p>
<p>SAT scores sucked majorly, but i had good SAT2’s. </p>
<hr>
<p>Bottom line: one thing will neither hurt/help you; two bad things will get you rejected …
This is what i learned. Sometimes your not the kid the colleges are looking for, other times you don’t get lucky. </p>
<p>I wish i had done a more complete job. I am stilll that i couldn’t have done a better job. SO CLOSE and i DROPPED THE BALL! </p>
<p>I am SO confident i WOULD have made it to UCLA, Berkeley or at LEAST UCSD! My school sends so many kids there…</p>
<p>How about you ? its your turn !!!</p>
<p>I forgot to put my ap exam grades on…got a 5 in U.s and english language and a 3 iin world history (i regret that) but what I regret most is applying for music performance…I mean I love singing but I want a stable career…I realized that maybe someone as sensitive as I am…shouldn’t go the path of rejection…My conservatory director really pushed me going to music school…and sometimes I really hated singing because of all the stress..Just because u r good at something…doesn’t mean it’s what you should do…Plus that really takes a toll on you and your family…After volunteering at a few concerts by people who are really doing well in their field…I realized…You have to really really really dedicate your whole life to it…I got accepted at Northeastern…which I’ll admit was the school I never really wanted to attend…However now i believe I was totally wrong…You can’t judge a school on other’s opinion’s and it’s reputation of prestige…I’m still doing something with music…I’m a music industry major…and double majoring in journalism…And maybe I’ll go on to law school and become an entertainment lawyer…Who knows…My college admissions experience…taught me alot about myself…Kids nowadays often feel alot of pressure to go to some school just based on it’s notoriety…I know kids that applied to Harvard and didnt get into temple…or any school…When you pick a college…you should really focus on what YOU WANT! It’s just you spending the rest of your life with the effects of that decision…not anyone else.</p>
<p>Williams: did it last minute & didn’t realize they wanted SAT II scores…lol.
Princeton & Brown: My counselor failed to send out ANY of my midyear reports…apparently most schools dont care about that, since I got in 12 anyway, but Princeton & Brown more than likely didn’t even look at my app because it was incomplete.
Oh well, I’m not focusing on it, I’ll be perfectly happy at the school I’m going to!!!</p>
<p>Was born Asian and wanted to study biology…</p>
<p>Also, SAT scores could have been better?</p>
<p>Substandard extra-curricular achievements and financial situation.</p>
<p>Mm… well my first regret is not developing a well enough balanced list of colleges to apply to and would’ve made sure that my matches/safeties were ones that I was really excited about. Second would be starting the whole application process sooner (most of my apps were submitted 5 min before the deadline… definitely rushed…haha). And I definitely would have done more research on the schools I applied to to see what they looked for in a student. I might’ve changed the way I did some things…like maybe have done some competitions or something, but honestly, I’ve had so much fun these past 4 years that no amount of rejections is gonna make me regret what I’ve done in HS.</p>
<p>I would have said it was my demonstrated interest. I got into all of the colleges I officially visited with documentation (7) and waitlisted at two and rejected at one that I did not.</p>
<p>I can’t pinpoint what went wrong. No one else can, either. :/</p>