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Hi! I am a rising sophomore and go to a school which offers a lot of AP courses(19), but I am on track to probably only take 8. So far, I have taken AP CS A at school and AP Microeconomics on edX, sco …

I'm far behind everyone else when it comes to extracurriculars , this is really making me nervous. I want to study computer science but I haven't done activities related to it. Can someone recommend m …

I've been researching volunteer opportunities around politics and social justice and just in general but the ones I found have all been canceled or postponed. It feels like I'm wasting precious time t …

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Is raising money for refugees a good idea?

I wonder if there are any safety measurements on plagiarizing. When I tried to review a peer's essay, the webpage did nothing to prevent me from copy&pasting. I didn't paste any of the content outside …

I am a freshman and wondering what I should do for community service for college. I know what I would like to do but I do not know what a goo hours is per year. How many hours per year is good and how …

What is the average length of a literature review?

As 6000 words Recommended by my adviser. Please let me know your word count. As I am using this guide for write my literature : https://www.researchpr

I'm an International Student from Brazil, and in my essay, there's a part where I write "...being called Tio [my name]..." when talking abt my experience volunteering as a tutor for underprivileged ki …

Hi, quick question, would any course taken on Coursera or an equivalent be good enough to put on applications? Would colleges even take this into consideration if I put it? Thanks!

I'm an International Student from Brazil. One of my main ECs is being a volunteer tutor (Portuguese, Math, English, and Bible Studies) for local underprivileged kids. This is so important to me that m …

Right now I have too many extracurriculars and try to come up with a list which I should include in CommonApp. And I need to choose which activity should I list: XIII National LGBT Conference (it's fr …

Hi! So, I've just decided that I might want to pursue pre-med as a junior in high school so I'm kind of behind everyone else in extracurriculars. I know this is far off but does Med school look at hig …

The overall main themes of my application are helping others and teaching. All of my ECs go back to at least one of those two.

Between my activities, I have five that are almost the same: Volunteer Tea …

I am an international student currently enrolled in the South African system, which is not very well known globally. I took the SAT in May, and got 1250, which is lower than predicted by my teachers a …

I am interested in going into pharmacy but unsure about which path I should take. Some of the schools I plan on applying to do not require me to get a bachelor's degree before applying into their phar …

Hi! I’m a prospective Astrophysics/Astronomy major that’s looking to go to a T20 school. All of my friends tell me that I am lucky to be going into a less populated major because I’ll be able to get i …

I am planning on taking neuroscience as a major which blends in with psychology courses. Would it be a good idea to minor in psychology since a lot of the classes cross over? I plan on going into the …

What are the best extracurriculars for me to start now that I'm a sophomore to help me get the attention of the Ivy Legues I want to go to(Yale, Princeton, Harvard)? Any suggestions are appreciated.

I got an email from Swarthmore college saying I had gotten a fee waiver but I how do I check it off on common app since its college specific and not a general fee waiver?

Hi! I was trying to enter my extracurriculars for the chancing calculators but I really don't know what category to put one into. I'm currently in this program for the fall in which I just take math o …