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Can you change the recommender after submitting the application?

I already submitted an application and assigned one of my teachers from last year for a recommendation. She agreed, but I asked her about it again yesterday and she said she might not be able to finis …

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Is earning a Black Belt an honor on common app?

On common app, where it says, "Do you wish to report any honors related to your academic achievements beginning with the ninth grade or international equivalent?" could I put earning a Black Belt? I w …

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Common App Essay Question

My common app essay is about my first-hand experience of witnessing poverty in India on a trip I took with my family three years ago (not a community service or mission trip; just a regular visit to s …

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How do you stop procrastination?

I, like many other students I know, am struggling a little bit right now with my mental health and meeting personal deadlines. My cumulative GPA is a 3.4 I'm just like really unmotivated, yet extremel …

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4 years agoAdmissions Advice
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A doubt about recommendation letters.

My teachers asked me how to submit recommendations letters on the common app, as they've finished writing it on google docs. So should they write in a paper and make it a pdf OR they copy the link of …

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Would It matter to colleges, If you take a foreign language course, after not taking it for two years.

For example, you take spanish 3 junior year, after taking spanish 2 in 8th grade?

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Grades and Admissions

Heyo! I am someone who has been interested in making it into prestigious universities as a biomedical engineering major. My grades during my freshman year of high school were pretty good, but after so …

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Should I Put Anime On My Activities?

I have 2 Instagram theme pages (I just repost content) based on anime that have garnered over 140k+ followers and an anime YT channel, where I just created compilations of anime clips, with 8k subscri …

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4 years agoAdmissions Advice
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Common app help

Coming back here for another question ha ha.

Do I need to include planned classes on the "Current or Most Recent Year Courses" section of the common app? I'm curious because there is an option to mark …

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4 years agoAdmissions Advice
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Current or Most Recent Year Courses

Hi! I am filling out the Current or Most Recent Year Courses section on the common app, and I had a quick question.

Do I include college courses I am taking this semester? I am doing four classes at my …

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Should I apply EA to University of Tennessee with a weighted GPA of 3.62 and ACT of 27

Should I apply EA to University of Tennessee with a weighted GPA of 3.62 and ACT of 27, my 1st marking period grades of Senior year are good so chances are my GPA will go up by mid Nov. Should I the …

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Grading scale on common app

I just realized I had selected my weighted GPA grading scale incorrectly on common app (4.0 instead of 5.0) in all my Early submissions. My GPA entered is correct and that it is weighted.

And all colle …

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SAT for Brown PLME

I'm a junior in HS with a 4.0/4.0 GPA and some pretty good extracurriculars (leadership experience + two world championship appearances, also trying to get some medical experience in). I got a 1520 on …

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4 years agoAdmissions Advice
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CompSci programs during school year?

Hey!! I'm currently a sophomore hoping to pursue CS. I want to familiarize myself with it more and get experience that'd look great to colleges!! Any programs that anybody knows about or activities I …

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4 years agoAdmissions Advice
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What policies do top universities such as Cornell have toward admissions of twins?

From what I've read, colleges prefer to admit twins together or reject them together because they usually have the same course rigor, GPA, stats, extracurriculars, etc. I have also heard that if one t …

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Hi, everyone. I'd like ask something about the financial aid process

I have submitted my common app and the CSS profile to my intended university. However, I accidentally selected No, when asked if I'd like to apply for need-based financial aid. Is there any way to c …

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Common App

UIUC does accept commonapp collegevine says that it doesn't but it does. You can't report bugs or errors on Collegevine so I'm just going to report it here

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People who graduated early--how did you feel in college?

Did you feel left out? Were you able to make friends and feel like a part of the community? How easy was it to integrate into classes and make friends? Did you feel safe & comfortable?

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Excluding SAT scores impact on Financial Aid

I am applying to a test-optional school and the chancing advice is to not include SAT scores for admission. Will this impact potential scholarships and financial aid package that the school may offer …

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P.E Course On College Applcation

Hello,

Sorry if I didn't make this post correctly - not fully accustomed to the website yet.

I've taken P.E for two years - freshman and sophomore, would I include those grades on my application? I've …

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