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How to get 100% scholarship in harvard , stanford , yale , princeton or anyother famous universities?

How to get 100% financial aid being an international student with family annual income less than $ 65 000 ?

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Will colleges look at mid semester grades differently this year?

Hi, I am a senior right now. Due to the pandemic my school has given the option to us to do virtual school. For some classes teachers have been harsher with grading compared to last year and tests are …

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3 years ago
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Do colleges care about HS courses taken in MS?

Hi! I took three courses in middle school that gave me high school credit and show up on my transcript. do colleges care about this or put a focus on my high school years only? does it give me any boo …

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What should I fill in if I haven’t take the SAT, ACT and PSAT?

Hi i’m a sophomore and due to Covid my school

Is not offering the PSATS this year. Therefore, i don’t know what to put on my dashboard

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Would not finishing the financial application for one application hurt your chances for other school?

I applied to Duke-Kunshan and Yale-Nus a while back when asked about it on the Yale and Duke common application. I now, due to unforeseen circumstances, no longer want to attend these schools. I have …

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3 years ago
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Does anyone know any art awards?

Hi! Does anyone know any art awards/competitions that I can enter (preferably with no entrance fee)? I'm a freshman in high school and I want to win some awards.

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3 years ago
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Should I study for SAT Essay?

I'm signed up for the March SAT with essay, but Collegeboard is suspending the essay in the future, so colleges seemingly will care less about it. Should I still study for it?

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Scheduling for Junior Year

Hi!

Just to give some background, next Friday, my school is going to start scheduling for our junior year. Most Juniors in my school take 3 AP classes, Gov, Bio, and Lang. I definitely want to take Go …

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Effects of summer college courses in admission

I am African. So we didn't take AP or honour courses in our school and I had a GPA of 3.76(and a valedictorian). Due to the pandemic, I wasn't able to take SAT but I offered some college courses(relat …

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3 years ago
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Will colleges accept my subject tests

With subjects being cancelled it will change things but, I've already taken mine so will colleges accept them or not?

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3 years ago
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How do I pick a prompt that will allow me to stand out when I have nothing interesting to talk about in my life?

I am a senior

I am applying through the My Coalition app. I have no idea how to write my personal statement to show admissions that I am more than my application. I have many ideas on each prompt and …

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What organizations can give volunteering hours that schools will accept?

Hello,

I'm running an organization and I plan on registering it for non-profit status. I was wondering if I will be able to offer volunteering hours to participants once I do so. Is there a certain req …

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3 years ago
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Can I use high school awards as extracurriculars?

Hello! I'm a Junior currently attending a Catholic Jesuit high school. At the end of each school year during graduation, one student from each grade level is selected to receive an award correlating t …

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3 years ago
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How do I improve my coursework?

In my chancing profile on CollegeVine, I have 14 IB courses, 2 honors courses, and 1 college course. I have more classes that I've taken but they aren't accelerated so I can't put them in. Is my chanc …

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3 years ago
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Summer Camps

I am a 11th grader in Turkey, and I want to join summer camps in some of the Ivy League Universities. But there are requirements for them (SAT,ACT or TOEFL, IELTS) and I can't enter those exams right …

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What are some good extra-curriculars besides school clubs?

9th grade, interested in math/finance/business majors and schools

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3 years ago
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What to do about summer school?

So I am someone who is more or less dead set on going into civil engineering. My GPA is lower than what I want for elite schools such as Rice and elite LACs so I plan on taking a summer course.

My on …

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3 years ago
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What will replace the SAT Subject Tests?

My school doesn't offer many foreign languages (with only Spanish offered) and I was planning to take the SAT Subject Tests in German and Latin. But now I can't do that. What can replace these?

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Is doing volunteer summer research with professor good as a high schooler?

I'm a current sophomore and I cold emailed a couple of professors near my local community college and one responded back with a potential research opportunity. However, it's an unpaid position. Was wo …

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