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Partially through a college application with BYU Provo, thoughts?

There's about 6-8 essays total, I've done 4.

1 is about what you lose track of time doing, I wrote about how I'm creative with my hands with things such as welding and leatherwork.

2 is about a signif …

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What are good topics for a college essay??

I know I’m super late to this but I’ve really been struggling trying to find a good topic to write my essay on. I’ve drafted some but I feel like they seem like sob stories. The prompts on the common …

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33 ACT Retake? Submit?

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Could someone give me their opinion on my personal statement?

I feel good about it being honest, but I feel as if there is something wrong with it. As if something is missing.

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5 or 6 classes senior year?

I’m a senior and my college counselor told me it would be better to take 6 classes my senior year, but so far the workload is too much for me, along with my ECs and applications. My school does not o …

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SAT exam

Good Evening, I had registered for SAT exam. I don't know if I going to pass SAT because I beginning to feel worry and nervous about this when I going to get a low score.

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a year ago
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Double Majoring

I'm a junior in high school and I want to major in psychology, but I also want to double major. I'm also planning on minoring in chemistry and pursuing a masters so I can become a forensic psychologis …

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Will I get into TAMU Business school? Any advice

I’m an African high school junior who is in an early college competitive high school in Texas. I’m rank 40/96 (working on it) but I am on track to getting my associates degree by the time I graduate h …

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Best Colleges for Disablities (T20)

I have ADHD and while prestige is important, so is access to great disability services. I tried looking up rankings, but nothing seems to give me a clear answer. What are some colleges that are good f …

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a year ago
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College essay

Hi, I'm a senior and I am currently working on my college essay, however, I need help with starting my essay with an interesting hook. I want to write about how k-pop, more specifically BTS and NCT, h …

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I messed up on the UTD optional essay and I need advice.

hey everyone I'm a high school senior who just submitted my utd application. so basically I'm applying to tamu, utd, and a few other colleges here in texas. for tamu I'm applying for engineering and f …

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spike question - do colleges not like it if you enter HS wanting to be one job, but end up changing your career choice?

A little context -

- During 8th grade, I wanted to be a pilot. Now, I'm a freshman in high school taking an aviation elective. the class material was very boring for me

- I wanted to be so many things …

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International student-Caltech

Hello!

I am currently a freshman at High school and also an international student. I want to go to Caltech and my interests are in Physics and Math. Can anyone please share their advice as to how i sho …

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a year ago
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How can I start preparing for high school and college?

I am an 8th grader, I have A's and take some rigorous classes in a local college. I also do martial arts and 3 other extracurriculars.

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Should I submit my SAT?

My final SAT score I got was 1380. My top school is the University Of Illinois Urbana Champaign. I have a 3.75 GPA, took 10 AP Classes, and am taking Calculus 3 as a senior right now. I have decent ex …

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a year ago
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Informal Email Addresses

Is it okay if one of my recs uses his personal email? This is for a volunteer org i work for (that doesnt have a domain) and he's been a supervisor who can actually attest to my own work. Any outside …

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a year ago
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Is free tutoring for 7/8 months is meaningful activity for ivy leagues?

Hi, I m rafsan completed high school. I have done free tutoring for 8 months in a poor school besides my tuition for earning after father's death. Is it a meaningful activity for ivy league??

I have ot …

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Reporting Pearson Edexcel grades on Common App [Testing section]

Hi, How should we report Pearson Edexcel IGCSE grades on Common App. There's only an option for Cambridge in the Testing section

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schools to apply to?

heyyy im a highschool senior applying to colleges right now and i feel very stressed out. i am an above average student, but feel very very below average among my classmates.

i have a 4.3W gpa, 1320 sa …

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Extracurriculars for Mech Engineering

I'm a sophomore in high school looking to study Mechanical Engineering once I go on to college. As far as academics go I believe I'm all good but my extracurriculars are lacking. I do a fair bit of CA …

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