<p>My GPA was a bit low..and I think i looked like too much of a “packaged” applicant.</p>
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<p>I honestly hate Cornell now and I’m glad that I didn’t get in there.</p>
<p>:) I like Dartmouth better anyways.</p>
<p>I would say my lack of internships and professional experience. Unavoidable due to my young age. That was mentioned, but no doubt it hurt me. Perhaps I could have improved on my essays. My RD essays were of significantly higher quality than my EA ones. Maybe if I had parents of a different race.</p>
<p>Overall, I believe my rejections (two out of eleven) were a result of AA, natural unavoidable factors that hindered me, and plain bad luck. I did all within my power to accomplish what I could and I can honestly say if I went back, the only thing I could do would be to have my past self work on saving children and curing cancer while my present self replaced him.</p>
<p>Mediocre SAT and GPA.</p>
<p>WFU - rushed on 2 supplemental questions.
NYU - probably one of my short answers wasn’t good.</p>
<p>Whatever, I am happy with BU! :D</p>
<p>I think my most serious mistake was underestimating the power of ECs in high school. I think if I had done more and gotten more involved, I could have gotten into an Ivy (or at leasst had a better chance). </p>
<p>For some colleges my essays were plain boring to read, and I showed little interest for the college. A good way to get waitlisted.</p>
<p>Quicksilvery:
Don’t blame lack of internships. Lots of kids don’t live in the cities and suburbs and don’t have access to them.
Don’t blame AA. My daughter, a minority, was also rejected a 2 colleges. We aren’t blaming anyone.<br>
Focus on the acceptances and let the others go.</p>
<p>-Didn’t interview</p>
<p>-Wrote “risky” essays for relatively low-risk colleges, might have turned readers off</p>
<p>-Bad class rank, very poor compared to SATs. </p>
<p>-Should have taken SATs a third time. 2130 first time, 2170 second. Soooo close to breaking 2200… sooo close…</p>
<p>B’s both semesters in Calc AB, as well as spanish IV (though that counts less). Procrastination probably made apps less polished. I kind of slacked off on a summer university internship after my junior year that I should have gone at full throttle (though I got a decent rec from my professor). I could have taken a couple more AP tests. My MIT interview was so-so, I definitely could have brought a lot more to that. I totally wasted my summer after sophomore year.</p>
<p>Despite all this, I did a lot of things right, and feel quite good about my results. These are just the details that could have been better. As it is, Columbia Fu foundation is nothing to be ashamed of.</p>
<p>Things i messed up on my apps eh?</p>
<p>Umich: writing an essay about biomedical engineering but then also applying for preferred admit to Ross school of business. At the time i didn’t know which one i wanted to do (later decided on business), but now it seems really stupid to contradict myself in my own application. </p>
<p>UC berkeley: Starting the essays the day before the app was due. Didn’t have time to proof read my app or essays. It was somehow still enough to get me into UCLA, but apparently not Berkeley. </p>
<p>Umich and Berkeley were 2 of my top 3 choices, so I was pretty dissapointed when i didn’t get in (well, waitlisted at mich.). Luckily, I was later accepted into Emory, which was the third school i really liked, so I feel much better now. :]</p>
<p>High school.</p>
<p>Oh I did not give my essay to some to proofread it for me
lot of mistakes
I did some of them at the last minutes
wake up 2 mns before a phone interview. It was dumb because the person interviewed me when he came to my school. She requested another interview to talk about one of weakest class, so I told her oh I go to tutoring with my friend to improve so I guessed that she thouht I was talking about my other half in the interview. I swear that this interview got me rejected</p>
<p>D did not apply EA to Yale, chose to do EA at Stanford instead and got in. It was not really a screw up but a calculated guess. For Harvard and Yale did not update my application with a publication for a coauthored article published in a scientific journal. Don’t know if it would have made a difference for Harvard, think it and EA would have made a difference for Yale, but then D had decided she did not want either school prior to finding out. Is going to Pton instead.</p>