Juniors

A community for juniors on CollegeVine to connect as you all get ready for college applications.
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Welcome to the Juniors community 🎉

This is a place to learn how other juniors are talking about college admissions.

There are a few easy ways to participate:

1. Get started by checking out our guidance page for juniors. Here you will fi …

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No AP Classes

My school does not offer AP or honors classes, but I want to still stand out to colleges. Is there a way or different activity that will help with this?

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Which major/career path would best fit for my interests and potential success? How do I go about finding that out?

I'm a Junior in High school and still don't have strong ideas as to what I want to do/major in. Right now I'm involved in a number of things extracurriculars. I've been in ASB, my school's Student Adv …

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The Course Conundrum

Hi everyone. Hope everybody reading this is doing well.

As almost everybody, I'm stressing over picking my courses for the 12th grade. Here are the classes I'm thinking of doing next year:

1. AP Litera …

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Anyone use Knowt for AP Exams?

I recently have tried using Knowt to study for my AP Exams occurring later this year. It's a lot easier for me, but I'm not sure how reliable of a resource it is.

Has anyone had experience using it to …

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Veterinary or Forensics?

I have very different options when it comes to my majors. I'm really only hung up on 2. Do I go down the vet path or forensics? They both interest me equally and I just can't decide. The schools I wan …

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Best Way to Study for PERT, SAT, ACT?

I live in Florida, and Here we have something called a PERT to help you get college courses asap. I need a 123 for college algebra on the Math portion and I need ways to study for it, I'm taking an In …

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AP Stats or normal stats?

I'm going to be a senior next year, and my school is moving to Trimesters next year. I'm debating if I should take AP Stats or normal stats. AP Stats is 2 tri's + 1 tri for an AP stats test prep. Norm …

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Is bioengineering an unreasonable major based off of the classes I've taken?

Hi all,

Junior here worried about college apps. I really like bioengineering or biotechnology as a major and was thinking of applying to more competitive schools for this major. However, I have never t …

 
Take physics
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Don't take physics
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HELP! Any last minute tips for a few extra SAT points????

I got a 1380 on my last practice test and it would be great if I could get it to at least a 1400. I'm taking the SAT this week; any last minute tips/tricks to maximize my points even just by a little …

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SAT Score Improvement

My school is scheduled to take the SAT this week. I've been studying a bit but I want to do everything in my power to get a score that will impress universities (or at least impress me lol). I've been …

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Organizations/Programs for Healthcare and/or Health Policy

Does anyone know any good programs for high school students based on healthcare/health policy/mental health?

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AP Courses on Khan Academy

Hello! My name is Isabela, I'm a Brazilian student.

My school doesn't offer AP Courses (this doesn't exist here). I was thinking about taking AP Courses online, on the Khan Academy platform.

Does this m …

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Community vs. University vs. Online

I’ve been thinking about going to community college first to see if I really enjoy Marine Biology/Oceanography/Zoology/Animal Sciences and explore the careers each one provides. I’ve always been told …

 
Community
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I'm not taking that many hard classes next year. Is that okay?

To preference I'm taking dual enrollment U.S. History and AP Lang but next year my classes are going to be AP Gov, AP Lit, consumer math since I'm not that good at math, leadership for one semester, a …

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Junior Year Academic Struggles

I am trying to select classes for senior year, and I want to take a bunch of honors and AP classes because that's what I enjoy. But, I have friends who are saying that I'll burn out, and it's causing …

 
Take all Honors & AP
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Don't Take Them
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HI

Y'all I am scared we are look at colleges and it scares me.

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What school do I go to?

I wanna major in forensic science/criminology, my "back up" choice for college is biology/animal sciences to later go on to veterinary sciences. But I want to try to stay in state for college/universi …

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Early decision

What’s the difference between ED I & ED II?

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Senioritis (Junior Year Version)

YALL!! Senioritis is hitting HARD and it’s only junior year. there’s simply no way i’m going to survive next year. is anyone else feeling this?! lmk so i can stop feeling so horribly about being so un …

 
i feel you!
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it’s not that bad!
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How to get a presidential service volunteer award

So recently I've been thinking of ways to get 200 hours by the end of this year, mostly for college apps. But I'm having a hard time finding any organizations that I can volunteer with online to get v …

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