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My question is for the adopted people because I´m adopted as well and I was wondering how the free college works?

With being adopted the state you were adopted in provides you free college. I heard that it only will work if you went to a public college. I am coming to the end of my high school career, so I was wo …

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How bad does it look to get a C in A levels math 1st term senior year?

I am in my senior year at a British school in Valencia Spain. I started at the school in my junior year. Prior to that I was at an American school in Taipei Taiwan for my freshman and sophomore year. …

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2 years ago
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Are my Extra curriculars strong enough? How can I improve it?

These are my activities as listed on my Common App. Please recommend improvements, criticisms(constructive of course).

I'm a West Indian/Caribbean student who have good CSEC and average CAPE results.

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2 years ago
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What do you do after getting into a college?

I recently received an acceptance letter from one of my top-choice schools. However, I'm still waiting to hear back from other schools that I've applied to. I'm feeling quite overwhelmed by all the in …

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2 years ago
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International application and scholarships

I am concerned about my college list. My name is Mariana and I am a Brazilian senior

My unw. GPA is 3.75 and my SAT is 1460 (710 for reading and 750 for math). I listed 5 honors that are nati …

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2 years ago
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Would Co-Foudning a big Roblox group count as a EC.

Hello, I’m a 9th grader and was wondering if I could put this on college application in the future. For reference, the group had around 400-500k members in its prime making around 50 mil robux(which I …

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2 years ago
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Research on nuclear fusion for highschoolers

I'm very interested in nuclear fusion, so much so that I'm doing a school project on nuclear fusion (and into a senior project, hopefully). To make it into a senior project, I need to shadow a profess …

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2 years ago
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Chemistry grades affecting ivy admission

I'm highly interested in chemistry but I have a C in summer chemistry and a D first quarter in AP Chemistry. Im improving though. Will it ruin my chances of getting into an lvy league when applying in …

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2 years ago
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Restoring old collegevine account

Hi! I used to use collegevine on my school account, but at some point my school decided to not let students log into collegevine (and many other websites) with their school account. Since then, I have …

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How to show Science interest?

I want to go into biophysics/molecular biology but my school offers practically no science extraccuriculars at the high school level, and my family doesn't have the time or money to handle transportat …

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2 years ago
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Honors college and better dorms?

I've heard that the dorms for honors college are generally newer and have features like single rooms (so no roomates) and/or private bathrooms.

Is that true?

I'm not worried about the being "isolated" p …

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2 years ago
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My Chance questions

Where can I find a definition of "reach" vs "target" vs "hard target" vs "safety"?

Is it based on just % chance of getting in ? If so, where are they listed out? Or is based on other criteria as well …

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2 years ago
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Can I still achieve a 3.8-4.0 having currently a 3.7 my sophomore year?

I’m in my sophomore year in high school and my school offers dual enrollment at a local public college, as well as AP and AICE classes as well. I’m taking de and aice classes currently and plan on tak …

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2 years ago
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I want to show that i want to pursue arts but I dont think my EC shows it

My ec so far

Dull.moments, Founder

Fleshed-out start-up; completed 100+ orders in custom-made figurines and keychains; earned $2000; paid 50% of my school tuition.

Why? Project, Lead designer

Led a team …

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Admissions

My freshman year I struggled really bad with depression, Causing my GPA to end in a 2.4. This year I have improved a lot, Ending the first quarter with a 3.6 GPA. I am graduating high school a year e …

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2 years ago
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College Counseling Organization

College Counseling Organization

Hello everyone! I am Anastasia Mrelashvili, a junior from Tbilisi, Georgia. I have just come up with a new extracurricular idea. My idea is to create an international co …

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2 years ago
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How do I find extracarriculars and research internships.

I go to a really small school with little opportunities for extracurriculars, research, internships, etc. I have looked on places like Linkedin, done cold emails, and applied to many different things, …

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2 years ago
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Account wiped.

hey my whole account is gone, all of my connections, my list, all of my extracurriculars, any way to get this back? All of it is just gone please help me

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what does it mean when colleges ask for grades

my counselor got an email from a college I EDed to, to give my most recent grades but i haven’t gotten in, decisions come out next week. help what does this mean.

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I have not gotten back my essays in peer review for 2 weeks. Has anybody else had this problem?

So I uploaded an essay for peer review 2 weeks ago. It said it was going to get back to me in 12 hours. It has been two weeks. I uploaded another essay a week ago and I still have not gotten it back. …

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