I got A's in US history in summer school. My cumulative GPA is 3.94. Would my GPA rise or would it not be affected at all?
When I was completing the scholarship application on ApplyTexas for Texas A&M University, there was a page that was not saving. I thought because it had information with parent income, it may have bee …
I'm 16 y.o and rising senior, would it be a disadvantage in my admission process?
What if I take 20 classes in my school but in CommonApp maximum amount of courses you can report is 15 (and CommonApp requires to report all of them). What can I do about it?
I'm a Sophmore and interested in the field but don't know exactly what I should be doing to stand out from other candidates. For example what extracurriculars should I be doing or what summer camps I …
Hello! I'm a rising senior in high school and I know that I want to work as an attorney in NYC, so going to law school in New York would be beneficial. That being said, should I go to college in NY or …
Hoping you can help me think through the pros/cons of AB104.
The state of CA is allowing students to change a grade to P/F for the 2020 school year due to COVID.
Participating colleges include UC, CSU, …
Some of the extracurricular activities I put on the common app cannot be verified by contacting my school(only the school clubs). What can I do?
Also, what if I have more than 10 extracurriculars to ad …
I studied CBSE (Indian board) in highschool. I had an option between Biology and Mathematics and chose Biology thinking I’ll pursue medicine. As far as I know, American colleges ask for your maths gra …
Hello everyone!I am an international student.I am from Bangladesh.I wanna study in the top US universites or Ivy League like Harvard,MIT,Stanford,Yale,UCB,UCLA.My gpa and other necessary things are ex …
Hello! In honor of the Common App recently opening, I knew I had to organize all the information needed for my applications or else I would be a mess. I made an outline on Notion with spots to put all …
I really want to apply to brown university early decision but also want to apply to CWRW early action too.
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Can you group activities related to each other in the activities section on Common App? (example: Debate Club and MUN, or Environmental Club and Recycling Campaign)
Thank you very much!
Does anyone have any tips for organizing your college applications, like creating an application schedule if you're thinking of applying Regular Decision? Any help would be appreciated.
Hello!
Can you group activities related to each other in the activities section on Common App? (example: Debate Club and MUN, or Environmental Club and Recycling Campaign)
Thank you very much!
I'm a rising senior and on some colleges on common app questions whether their optional or not are temporarily offline for maintenance, should they be up soon?
The list if schools that have this:
NCAT
This year, I took my ap exam in May but then requested to do a make up examin June and needed to wait until August 16 to get my scores. I faxed to a cancellation form to college board to cancel the sc …
My grades took a hit from covid my sophomore year especially math. Will my poor gpa that year effect my overall GPA all four years and late on college apps?
Hi! I'm considering doing the third prompt on the common app:
Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
My idea is to discu …
I plan on going to college as a business admin/management major 2-3 hours away from home. I'm really looking at Morgan, Bowie, and Howard but I have many other schools on my list. But Bowie's entrepr …
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