Admissions Advice

How can I use CollegeVine to help me estimate my accuracy in getting into 7year programs

Hello!

I am currently in high school looking at schools and I am not so sure how to use CollegeVine to help analyze my chances into 7-year medicine programs such as BS/MD programs. I have seen and hea...

Best books on writing college essays?

I'm working on my essays and though I am looking at essay samples, I still feel a little lost. Any good books on writing essays?

Qualities that will make me accepted into Drexel university

My GPA is 3.7

What kind of research can social science majors high school students do?

Hey there,

I'm a junior and over the summer I'm hoping to land some position or another with a professor but to do that I need to find professors I'm interested in. The problem is I don't really kn...

AP bio or physics?

I have a question about science course options in high school. Our school has sooo many science options, which I a, really happy about as I want to become a vet. But, I don't know if I should take phy...

Which CTC course do i take??

hii so i really want to be a doctor,so I was planning on taking clinical rotation...but then my friend told me it was bad since its a 4.0 class and will drop my gpa.She told me to take PACE instead wh...

New Collegevine Scholarships and Tentative Stats

A lot of the stats on my profile are things I plan on doing (extracurriculars and classes I'm going to do/take, target scores on tests, etc.) and I was wondering if this disqualifies me from the new s...

Connecting On CollegeVine

Hi! I was wondering what "connecting" to a college on CollegeVine actually does. I understand it demonstrates your interest to your selected colleges, but do admissions officers actually interact with...

How do I earn those merit boosters?

In the scholarships section, also can someone please explain all the cool new stuff added? I love it but I'm trying to figure out the sub communities and especially scholarships. Thanks!

Do my extracurriculars present an interest that would be good for Upenn or Harvard

I want to major in biological science with a premed track, and I want to apply to Upenn or Harvard. I feel like my extracurriculars don't specify in one area. If my extracurriculars don't present a sp...

I performed poorly in my public test can I be accepted in any university.

Like,

I got F9 in four(4) subject including Math and English, and C in two subject History and Geography.

Graduating class of 2020 but due to the covid19 epidemic?

I want to know something, I was part of my school graduating class of 2020 but due to the covid19 epidemic, I graduated 2021. Which year should reflect on my document.

ECs for Harvard

My high school doesn't offer AP classes and doesn't do grades, class ranking, or gpa. I am on the debate team (and do fairly well), I take Latin outside of school, I am planning on getting a book publ...

What extra curriculars and classes should I take my sophmore,junior, and senior year to be a veterinarian?

Hey Guys! I'm planning on pursuing a career in Animal Science (Veterinarian) and I'm not sure what classes I should take for my sophmore, junior, and senior year. I'm currently a freshman. My school o...

Extra curricular activity: Is it strong enough?

Over the corona virus pandemic, due to being stuck at home, I have been giving weekly English language lessons to my grandma and her underprivileged neighborhood kids in in India through zoom (since t...

4 AP's (Bio + Chem) in my junior year?

Edit: I haven't taken any AP's before. Only pre eng 10

Hello! You guys might've noticed my last post, in which I came to the conclusion that I'm not even able to not take US Hist or Gov. So instead, ...

Extracurriculars for Medicine

Hey! I am a sophomore in high school looking at a lot of really competitive schools for college (upenn, columbia, harvard are my reach schools) and i'm really struggling in the extracurricular section...

Do you think the courses that I am taking is manageable?

I am going to be a junior next year, and I am registering for courses.

So far, I have 3 APs and 1 Honor that I want to take in junior year.

Below are the courses that I am planning to take:

English 11...

Internships

Do you know of any high school internships for someone interested in foreign affairs?

11th grade trying to get my 3.65 to a 4.0 before i graduate(please help)

Hi i'm a student at a high school, i'm in 11th grade i have almost completed my second semester of high school. I am very concerned with my grades even though i have good grades i want better you know...