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Should you take 3 AP's junior year and 4 AP's senior year or 4 AP's junior year and 3 AP's senior year?

Next year I plan on taking AP Lang, AP Calculus AB, AP Chemistry&Lab, Spanish II Honors, Creative Writing Honors, and JROTC. Senior year, I'm going to take AP Lit, APUSH, AP Environmental Science&Lab …

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4 years ago
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TOP 50 LATEST Class of 2026 Acceptance Rates!!!

Overall College Acceptance rates are lower again because of more applications and ever competitive applicant pool. Test Optional policies are primarily responsible for the increase in applications to …

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4 years ago
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NOTE to all CV HS students - The College you will attend doesn't define you!!!!

Ivy Day pretty much marks the end of the college admissions cycle (expect for Stanford). That being said by tonight most HS seniors have a good idea of where they are going and the rest are going to f …

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4 years ago
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TULANE Chief Marketing head joins NorthEastern to replicate his wining strategy

I've never heard of this guy Satyajit Dattagupta but I think he's a genius of sorts. Why? Because single-handedly he was responsible for implementing the marketing strategy for Tulane which got them f …

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4 years ago
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how do i rack up more points for college admissions?

what extracurriculars/classes look good?

i do:

soccer

lacrosse

visual design courses

all honors classes

early college

is there anything i can add?

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4 years ago
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How influential are your essays on college admissions and how do you deal with application anxiety?

I attend a very competitive gifted high school where nearly everyone has goals of attending an Ivy League school or another college of the same caliber. Most people have a GPA greater than 3.7 (many h …

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4 years ago
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Are there any internships/research opportunities given to those under the age of 16?

Hi, I'm a 15 year old junior in high school.

I've been wanting to take part in internships and research opportunities, but the age requirement always seems to cut off at 16. I've reached out multiple …

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4 years ago
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How can I improve my chances into getting into a top film school for directing/screenwriting? (USC, NYU, etc.)

Sophomore

Speech and Debate Captain

Newspaper Co Editor-in-Chief

AP/Honors student

4.0 gpa

I plan on: attending summer camps, starting a film club, making short films, starting a film podcast (if anyone ca …

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4 years ago
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My Recommender Never Submitted My Recommendation Letter And I Got Rejected

I applied to NYU and my English teacher agreed to write and submit a letter. I even followed up with her. Turns out she never did which means my application wasn’t completed. Is there is anything I ca …

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4 years ago
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Any competitions/contests or remote programs ECs for STEM majors (mainly engineering/compsci) that are still open?

Any competitions/contests or remote programs ECs for STEM majors (mainly engineering/compsci) that are still open? I already have pretty strong ECs, I'm just looking for more opportunities to add.

Tha …

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4 years ago
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Wesleyan Class of 2026 Acceptance rate falls to 13.86% from 19.32%

In 1 cycle, Wesleyan's admit rates dropped about 30%, in large to almost getting an additional 20% in applications.

This year they received 14521 applications and accepted 2013 for their freshman clas …

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NorthWestern Class of 2026 Admission Rate is 7% up .2% from 6.8% last year.

Although NW received a record 51554 applications vs 47174 last cycle, it admitted almost 400 more incoming freshman than last cycle.

Since they had a yield rate of 52% for the Class of 24 and a yield …

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4 years ago
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Advice on how or where to learn good methods of application essay writing?

I am starting the process of writing and thinking about college application essays and was wondering where I can find things to include vs what not to. Also, what makes a good application essay.

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4 years ago
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Scholarships

I am currently a junior in high school and will be a senior next year, my parents keep telling me to start applying for scholarships as soon as possible. They are telling me to apply for as many as I …

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4 years ago
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TUFTS drops below 10% admit rate to 9.0% for the first time in history.

This cycle the Tuft admission office received 34880 applications and just accepted 9.0% vs 11.43% last year.

This marks the first time Tufts has broken through the magical 10% acceptance rate barrier.

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4 years ago
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Vanderbilt's Class of '26 overall admit rate falls to 6.1% from 6.7% last year

These are the stats for Vanderbilt's 3 rounds of applications

ED1 - 650 admits out of 2700 for a 24.07% ED1 rate

ED2 - 250 admits out of 2407 for a 10.33% ED2 rate

RD - 1964 admits out of 41610 for a 4.7 …

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY admits 14.1% vs 18.3% last year, failing to curb enrollement targets

In last month's Daily Free Press, it was stated that BU wanted to curb enrollment at 3200 but ended up enrolling 4011 or 811 more freshman for the Class of '25 vs Class of '24.

https://dailyfreepress.c

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TULANE's CLASS OF '26 acceptance rate is the same 10% as last year.

Even though official numbers are not out, this newsletter spills the beans and states that Tulane received about 42000 applications (vs 45517) and that they are going to accept about 10% this year (vs …

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4 years ago
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EMORY RESULT IN - EMORY drops to 10.66%, EMORY OXFORD drops to 14.38%

This is a huge surprise because in the past couple cycles Emory was struggling to be competitive with say Tulane, USC, WashU. Now they have dropped to the "uber"-competitive category of near-elite col …

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4 years ago
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CV will take away your 20 Karma Points for Accepted Answers if an CV Expert request is made.

Did you know that if you get 20 Karma Points for having the best accepted answer, you are still at risk of losing the 20 points if the poster makes a request to have a CV expert answer the question af …

 
I think CV should reverse this policy
54%
 
I think CV should continue with the policy
14%
 
I think CV should make a new policy like split the karma 10/10
19%
 
I don't really care since I don't answer questions.
12%
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