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A community for juniors on CollegeVine to connect as you all get ready for college applications.
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• 5 years ago
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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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• 4 years ago
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Clubs and Student Leadership

Hey! I'm a rising junior, which means that next year I'll have the opportunity to run for leadership positions in clubs and student council on a greater level than I did this year, where I could only …

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• 4 years ago
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I did not do as well as i wanted my junior year, what advice would you give for applying to colleges?

I got mostly A’s and B’s but also a few C’s in some of my AP courses. I will still be getting the credits because you need about a 70% to get them. But I didn’t do as well as I hoped. I’m scared colle …

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• 4 years ago
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Summer plans?

sorry I put this in the wrong forum

 
Volunteer at art museum
75%
 
Online pre-collegiate math class
12%
 
Computer science booster class for AP class
12%
Poll closed•8 votes
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• 4 years ago
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Worries

As a rising senior I am worried about many things:

1 getting a bunch of community service hours for NHS

2 the lack of ap/ ib classes at my school

3 my chances of getting into my dream school

Which do you …

 
Community Service Hours
37%
 
Lack of high level classes
31%
 
Dream School Chances
31%
Poll closed•16 votes
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• 4 years ago
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AP Calc or AP Stats

Hi all! I'm a rising senior who's looking to go into pre-med, specifically neuroscience, neurosurgery or anesthesiology. Do you guys think that I should take AP Stats or AP Calc BC? I've already taken …

 
AP Stats
45%
 
AP Calc BC
54%
Poll closed•11 votes
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• 4 years ago
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college essay

im a rising senior in high school (yay!) meaning that college application season will soon be upon me. i've began to think of what to do for the college essay, and I either (a) can't think of anything …

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• 4 years ago
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What's a good and achievable IB English IO score?

I'm about to take my IB English A IO and I don't know what's considered a good score, plus I believe that I think its a good score might be very hard to achieve, therefore I want to ask anyone who has …

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• 4 years ago
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More Extracurriculars

So, I'm going to be a junior in high school soon and I have a decent amount of extracurriculars for just doing things during freshman and sophomore year but my only real impressive thing for Junior ye …

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• 4 years ago
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Club activity ideas

I’m the president and founder of the Feminist Club at my school, and this school year was our first year as a group. We started off really strong with a lot of people, but they have been dwindling rec …

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• 4 years ago
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extra classes

I'm not sure what to do because I feel as though this lowers my chances.

my school does not offer AP/IB classes at all. what should I do

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• 4 years ago
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Extracurriculars

I’m homeschooled and about to finish 11th grade. Because I’m homeschooled it’s kinda hard to find extracurriculars to participate in. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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• 4 years ago
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Where does Collegevine's chancing simulator get its data from?

If a user updates their school list with "accepted" and "rejected", is that user's data used to improve the chancing simulator? If not, where does collegevine get the data to base their simulator off …

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• 4 years ago
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Should I put in my super score SAT or my best SAT result from one test into the collegevine chancing simulator?

My guess is the superscore but I want to know for sure

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• 4 years ago
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is it too late to bring my 2.0 GPA to at least an average level?

I have been trying to find a way to increase or counteract my bad GPA with no luck from my school's counselor's office. Should I focus on extracurriculars and SAT/ACT scores, or have I burnt my chance …

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• 4 years ago
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What should I major in and how will that determine my career?

Hi! I am currently a high school junior starting to question my career choices. I have been having doubts about some majors I am interested in like Political Science, International Affairs, Environmen …

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• 4 years ago
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How many officers should be in a school club?

I run a club averaging 17 members per meeting. This year, we had 4 officers.

There has been one member of the club who has been there since day one and was the only one other than me to win an award i …

 
6 officers is too much
29%
 
6 officers is fine
70%
Poll closed•17 votes
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• 4 years ago
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Help with a Essay bros or sisters😔

-Viewing of two (minimum) films.(Pick any from the list below. Please help me. I will use my words to write it, just want an example ESSAY)

-Each of the two (minimum) films must be cited through the bo …

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• 4 years ago
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Question about setting up profile

I’m trying to finish setting up my profile and it says that I have it 80% done, and I just need to finish the preferences section. Thing is, I already completed it and it sends me to that screen that …

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• 4 years ago
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Extra Curricular Ideas

Does anyone have any extra-curricular ideas? I'm a sophomore going into my junior year and I only do dance team and girl scouts. Any ideas of anything else I could join?

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• 4 years ago
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Psychology or Fundamentals of Communication?

I'm already taking English and Statistics next year for dual enrollment and I have the option to take a third one. Psychology seems super interesting to me, but Communication could be more practical. …

 
Psychology
88%
 
Fundamentals of Communication
11%
Poll closed•17 votes
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