Juniors

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Hi, does being an office aide have any benefit towards college applications if it doesn't count for anything like experience or community service or should I take a credit class instead even if it has …

Hello, I am going into senior year soon and my schedule had problems so I had to choose and drop classes. I want to be a computer science major but I dropped the computer science principles class that …

Hi, I'm a rising senior with a 3.94 UW gpa and a 34 ACT score that I plan on submitting. I will have taken 9 APs by the end of my senior year, and I have pretty standard extracurriculars, nothing spec …

I slacked the first 2 years of high school because I was fully convinced I was going to enlist. Now I want to go to a big college, not an ivy league of course. The college I'm looking at has a accepta …

I am a 12th grade student and have a few small extra-curriculars.

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Is it possible to improve my GPA from 3.65 to 3.75 in my junior year ?

Unweighted GPA

I'm a rising junior, and I'm very much grateful for all the extra-curricular activities, internships, college classes, and community service that I'll be doing in my junior year. I'm quite confident t …

I got straight A’s my sophomore year and slipped a little during my second semester of junior year. Which honestly might be the worst thing for me as I was initially aiming for schools such as UMich U …

I am planning to go to college for nuclear engineering, but it seems to be a small/dying major. Would studying nuclear engineering be a profitable career to go into?

Hello, I am a rising Junior and plan on majoring in Public Heath, Biochemisty, or Neuroscience. However, I am having trouble deciding which classes I should be taking (which ones colleges will find mo …

Hello, rising senior here. I have a lot of problems that prevented me from obtaining all A's for my first 2 years of high school such as moving, covid, being first-gen so none of my parents could have …

This year, I’m going to have IGCSE tests in my Indonesian international school. My teacher says that if I can get good scores at it, I can get to college straight away. So I’m asking which colleges ar …

Hi, I am a rising Junior and interested in Environmental Science as a College major/minor. I scored a 3 on my AP Environmental Science Exam and although I did pass I believe that I could've done bette …

Hey, I'm going to apply to colleges for class 2028 and I'm an international student. People always say that "It doesn't matter how many exams you take, the thing matters is in what conditions you have …

Is it possible to withdraw a score after it already being sent to a college? I bombed one of my AP Exams snd the other one I got a 3. If not possible what should I do about it cause I feel hella embar …

Hi! Rising junior here looking to create an email for college mail. I was thinking of doing firstname.lastname.college@gmail.com . Would you recommend doing this email address? I don't know if it is wr …

Guys suggest some Initiatives to take as school prefect or even as a student, as I'm not sure lols whether I'll win the election for prefect or not! I'm more interested in highlighting the importance …

So after seeking initial advice regarding my extracurriculars, I've come to a conclusion that I should do what I love! Thus, I've realised that one thing I love is community service. I like to partici …

Hi, I'm a rising senior (class of 2023), and graduating with Honors was the main goal I set for myself in Freshman year, however during these last couple years (COVID, personal issues, etc.) my GPA ha …

Fall of 2021, I took the PSAT and got a 970. A month later (around November), I took the actual SAT and got a 960. I was really disappointed in myself because I'm a try hard but this was my first time …