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Recommendation

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I need to send a request to my recommenders and the application has the question: "What is your relationship to the recommender?"

Here, should I write Student/Mentee or Professor/Mentor as they've as …

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Is this topic valid for my "Why us" essay?

Hi all,

I'm an international student writing my Why Us essay for Barnard College, which is my dream school. I was thinking of answering the prompt with a description of a day as a student, while touchi …

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CAE vs IELTS vs TOEFL

Which english exam is better for an european wanting to study in the US?

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How helpful are paid summer programs?

During the summer after my freshman year I did a 3-week stay at UCLA for a summer program related to the major that I want to do in college. The program wasn't application based, however, and all that …

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How to request for more merit based aid?

Is it fine to mention other college name and cost of attendance / aid amount (whose total coa is lower) while requesting more merit based aid from another college? International student, so not eligib …

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Has anyone been accepted into University of Minnesota's Twin Cities Honors Program yet?

I was just curious to see if anyone has received a letter/email from them.

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Taking only a few AP classes, but more are offered

Hey! I’m a Junior in high school, and my school offers up to 15 AP classes and 1 honors class! In all, I’m only taking 4, 1 now in my junior year, and possibly 3 in my senior year. I don’t want to str …

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Is futher mathematics required for computer science applications to US universities

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Currently residing in Singapore and plan to apply to US universities. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find clear requirements for applying for computer science undergraduate through a level. Some p …

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What else can I do?

I am a junior in high school currently and getting ready to apply to colleges next year! Due to some medical reasons I was out a few weeks my sophomore year which really hurt my uGPA due to my heavy c …

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What do I need to do for admission?

I'm confused. Now I am in the 10th grade of a high school in Russia. I have already started to prepare for SAT and TOEFL. And i don't know what to do next...

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Extracurricular activities

Hi, I’m a freshman going into sophomore year and I want to become a software engineer once I’m older. What are some good extracurricular activities that would give me a better chance to be accepted in …

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Extracurricular

I want to attend a stem research internship but can't find one

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Extracurricular activities

I don't know what more extracurricular activities i can do for ivy. I have already done blogging, novel writing, won art competition, jv sports athelete who won a intraschcool award,merit in science o …

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Scholarships

I am a ninth grade student in Ghana, West Africa. I would like to find out my chances of getting a scholarship as an international student.

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Hi, My name is Marjan and I'm a 9th grade student in Pakistan please tell me about some extracurricular activities

I'm in 9th grade, and I'm from Pakistan karachi.

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What are good psychology major extracurriculars? (I'm currently a freshman)

I'm planning on starting a psychology/mental health related club in 11th grade after I finish AP Psych in 10th. I want to start a mental health campaign at my school next school year which informs peo …

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Law Extracurriculars

I want to study either Pre-Law or Poli-Sci during undergrad, and as a current freshamn in high school I was wondering what extracurriculars are good to prep for that?

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Does foreign language count into GPA?

I'm a junior, and had to take languages over the summers (in an on-level format) to make room in my schedule for health-science classes that I was interested in. Will this hurt my application to selec …

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NO AP, SAT-2 only SAT(international student)

Hi! I am an international student, and i couldn't take AP's , firstly it was optional earlier cz we could either give SAT and SAT-2or AP. But now SAT-2 ain't happening anymore also the deadlines for A …

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Research project for a research university!!

Should I write a research paper or internship to apply for a research university?

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