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Because the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions on June 29th, we recently updated our chancing algorithm so that the impact of your ethnicity is greatly reduced. As a result, your chan …

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I am a junior this year and will be applying to college soon. The rest of my application seems satisfactory but I am slightly worried about one of my upcoming AP exams, as my teacher did not cove …

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I’m currently a sophomore in highschool, but I feel like I haven’t really done enough. Even though I had straight A’s in middle school, I wasn’t allowed to take honor’s courses during freshman y …

Hi, I was a bit worried about my chances of getting into a couple of colleges. My dream schools are Boston University, Boston College, Penn State, CU Boulder. A brief memo: I am a first-generation, im …

I maintained a 4.0 GPA and higher my Freshmen year and Junior 1st semester, I hope to do the same by the end of my 2nd semester. HOWEVER, my grades dropped immensely Sophomore year, I had 5 C's...it w …

I’ve heard that certain colleges weight IB courses differently than their AP equivalents, is that actually the case? My school only offers IB for upperclassmen, and honors for underclassmen like mysel …

I'm a Bahamian student who was originally planning to go to by own university (UB) but I realized that all of the subjects I want to study aren't actually available to me. Although they do have lingui …

At my high school, Latin is offered as a possible language you can take. I heard seniors saying that taking Latin is bad for your college admissions chances. I'm pretty sure that this isn't true alrea …

I am a BMCC student majoring in math with a 4.0 GPA, and a full-time job. I taught myself how to code and I moved to NYC 2 years ago when I got a job as a data engineer. I work full time as a data ana …

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For my senior year, I plan on taking the following APs:

AP Chemistry

AP English Lit

AP Microeconomics (2nd semester)

AP Psychology

And non APs:

Anatomy and Physiology

Community college course

Statis …

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I am currently an eighth grader who is about to go into highschool net year, and I have hit a dil …

Hi everyone! So, I was in the middle of filling out a financial portion page, and suddenly I was kicked out of it. I was wondering if anyone knew how I could get back to this page to finish filling it …

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I was wondering what benefits could come with having a Seal of Biliteracy on French.

To put it into perspective, I am currently a sophomore with multiple advanced classes, including …

A lot of online volunteering opportunities are suggested to high schoolers by bloggers and even Collegevine requires an age above 18, such as the UN volunteering program and Translators Without Border …

This is regarding the "extracurricular" aspect of the chancing simulator. Though my GPA and SAT may not be as good as they can be, I've always thought that I've maintained a good amount of extracurric …

I am currently in ninth grade with a 97 average, (we calculate our grades on a 100 scale, and have unweighted GPA). But, last year I was taking Algebra 1 and Earth Science a year before, and I didn't …

Hey y'all, want to see what u guys thought of my current portfolio as of rn. (11th grade btw) I have a 4.13 unweighted? gpa which'll increase to 4.2+ by the end of the year. I have been doing fencing …

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@Allenab here is the information I could not fit on our discussion.

I used Ivy assistant to find answers for some of your questions:

Pre-Med Programs with Women's Lacrosse:

Columbia University …

I am pretty sure AP exams are next week, and another week after that, this is my first time taking AP Exam, it is AP human geography, I am just writing this, so maybe if anyone knows how APHUG exam wo …

I'm a junior in highschool with a 2.4 gpa. I don't have the time or the courseload needed to get it up by much. I got a 1310 on my SAT for my first attempt and plan on taking it two more times and inc …

Hi there, I've been developing a colleges list to apply to next cycle (junior here!) and I want to make sure I'm choosing schools that I actually have a shot of getting in to, but that aren't too much …