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Hey, I'm an incoming sophomore (currently on summer break) and while my academic profile is strong, I'm not to sure about my extracurriculars. My grades and GPA are nearly perfect and I am ranked 2nd …

Hi guys, my name is Jamshed and I am from Tajikistan

I has some questions

1.This year I won 1st place on Republican olympiad of English, so wanted to understand what kind of impact would it have on m …

I am a 10th grader in India (US Citizen)

My ECs so far are—

• 126 hours of volunteer work at local art gallery, LoR received,

• 2 internships at a small writing organisation (about 60 members), LoR rece …

What kind of awards can we add to the section of honors. Please tell me yours if possible

Hi guys!

Can you please write down on the comment your extracurriculars because I am really anxious about mine.

Hello! I am currently an incoming junior and have been thinking about doing something over the summer to strengthen my extracurricular activities list for when I apply to college next year. I have bee …

Hi, I was wondering what counts as an award for the awards section on the common app. Is getting an internship (where I had to go through a competitive application) count as an award? What about merit …

Hi, I’m a junior and want to major in political science however I took AP lang and AP Macro and got a B in both. I found these classes to be very difficult. I also didn’t take the AP exam for both. Ho …

I was wondering if I could write my college essay, about my passion(Ice skating and hockey) and if that was a good idea

For educational purposes only, I'm sharing my chancing results from a month ago as compared to the last 2 days. There is a lot of changes to the results, some have to do with lower admit rates, others …

I am an Asian-American, and I decided to answer prompt 1 in the common app. I know talking about my identity, especially in this demographic, is extremely cliche, but I feel like my story is integral …

My school doesn't include the class rank. What should I do?

Hi, my mother and I have been trying to find summer courses. I tried to apply for the ones offered at my school, but they only provide credit recovery. Does anyone know any free or cheap, yet credible …

I'm a 9th grader at Sammamish High school and I know for a fact that being transgender (ftm) is going to affect my chances for getting into certain colleges.

I’m currently a sophomore in highschool and plan to double major in computer science and graphic design. I live in a small town so there aren’t really any opportunities in computer science and current …

My new school requires me to take 3 years of a foreign language and only has Spanish. I’ve taken French 1 and 2 at my old school and I need to take French 3 or Spanish 1 if I want to graduate. Does an …

I've done karate for about 10 years now, and I got my black belt and am an assistant teacher. But I don't really know how to write all that in the activities portion. Does anyone have any tips on maki …

I just turned 17, I am a junior in high school and was wondering what would be the optimum timeline to apply to colleges, get my essays written, letters of recommendation, test transcripts, FSHA fille …

Hey, I was wondering why my chances on all my saved schools went way down recently. I changed nothing about my statistics and some schools dropped by about 20% could this be a mistake or did schools c …

Hello everyone,

I've lurked on here since last fall (I'm done with everything) but I want to ask a burning question I've had for a while now.

Contrary to popular belief, I actually really enjoyed the co …