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How can I improve my plan?

Basically, I have planned out my next 4 years of high school. As a freshman, I know this is typical, however, I really want to get started on my future career (I want to become a neurosurgeon). My nex …

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Tough Junior Year

Good Evening Everyone,

I am currently a junior in high school and am going to finish my first semester in a month. I used to have all A’s and some B’s, but now i have almost all B’s, one C, and a coupl …

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Profile Problems

So I tried multiple times to change my profile picture to a picture of me, but it keeps showing a picture from the gmail account linked to here. It's really annoying.

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How important are extracurriculars? Will not taking any in 9th grade affect my chances?

Hello, I am a 9th-grader, and my dream school is MIT, as I'm interested in CompSci. I've been searching around, and I've seen that some people say showing dedication to extracurriculars is very import …

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How to Improve Course Rigor from Strong to Excellent

Hi everyone!

I am currently a sophomore at a vocational school for Sustainability. Part of my course load for this includes AP Environmental Science this year and AP Bio next. I also took AP Psych on m …

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Will my grades during COVID affect my college chances very much?

My freshman year was spent while in lockdown. I was averaging around C for my grades. I am now sophomore and am getting straight A's with my lowest grade being a 97%. I know that those grades will aff …

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When should I start looking at colleges?

I am a sophomore. Should I start looking or wait?

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Will A minuses affect my college applications?

I am a junior in high school and am currently taking 5 AP classes and 1 regular class(AP Language and Composition, AP Biology, AP Physics 1, AP Calculus BC, APUSH, and Business Entrepreneurship). MIT …

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How long does it usually take for documents to be processed once you apply?

I know it can take up to a week for a document to show up as processed but I want to know a specific time frame. I got my college transcripts sent to a school and one arrived in literally 10 minutes b …

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Advanced classes w/o AP availability

One of my biggest drawbacks from applications and acceptance statistics lay within the fact that I don’t have many AP or honor classes available - I attend a medium sized school with limited AP classe …

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Honest Opinions!

Hello, guys! I'd like to ask you a honest opinion about where should I applicate. Not exactly a single uni, but a kind of profile of it. Example: Top unis, very good, good. So, let's go:

I'm Brazilian; …

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College chances ruined by haphazard course selection?

I’m a first-gen student, and did not know that certain courses have prerequisites back when I was entering 9th grade. I’m now a sophomore, but have only recently realized my mistake. Our school allows …

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Which would be more appealing for colleges: AP, Honors, or College classes?

I am currently a junior and I have only taken regular classes so far but I've just now realized I need to take more rigorous classwork to raise my chances to get into my top 2 choices.

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What should i do if my school gives Marks in percentage instead of GPA?

in my country, there is no specific no. of classes, and we have all the things such as calculus, algebra, trigonometry in the category of mathematics and we get an overall percentage marks out of a hu …

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what school best studies child development?

I'm a senior in high school. Looking to apply to colleges

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will military experience look good on my college applications?

Hi everyone, I was wondering if joining military looked good for colleges? (Since I'm planning on enlisting)

I want to apply to these colleges

University of Alabama

IU

Clemson (first choice)

3.8 GPA

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What schools are best to study Law?

I have a few schools on my list, but I don't know which schools are best to major in law. Please help!!! Thanks in advance :)

Also, write below what your dream school is 🤍🎓

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Grades for the UC application

Hi!

-For 10th and 11th grade(my country's equivalent of 9th and 10th in US), we had one subject called science, in which we learnt physics, chemistry and biology, and one called maths, where we learnt …

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How Is Marquette University a great fit for you to finish college

I am Applying to Marquette University as a transfer student for Spring 2022 year and I have to write a essay about how is a great fit for me to finish college there. so any Marquette students can I he …

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How long should the Princeton Graded Paper reasonably be

I'm planning on applying to Princeton University, and so I need to send a graded paper. I am taking the IBDP and feel that my best work was a paper I had written for History class, namely my IA (Inter …

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