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Next year, for my junior year, I signed up for AP us history, but I'm having doubts on if I should take it or not. I hear it's pretty hard, and they get a lot of work, but if I don't take it as an AP …

I am an 11th-grade international who got accepted into the Wharton Pre-Baccalaureate Program at UPenn for this Summer, and I was wondering how selective the admission rate was for the program and if i …

what is an ideal GPA for top 30 colleges in the US. Right now I have a 3.83 weighted and a 4.34 weighted is that good enough?

I attend a very competitive public high school in michigan where a solid third of my school attends umich, another third attend michigan state, and the remaining third attend another school. UMich is …

I’m a freshman in highschool, and I currently take honors geometry, and the rest of my classes are the freshman equivalent of an AP (called level 4). Im doing well in all of my level 4 classes (all As …

Hello, I am an international students who is applying for New England Institute of Technology and I was wondering if your university provides full-ride merit based scholarships for students like me. I …

I am a rising senior with a 3.975 gpa. I am involved in multiple band ensembles, and the president of a club.

I got a D on my math final and my grade fell to a C+. I’m freaking out and I don’t know what to do.

So I’m a freshman in high school and long story short I got caught in school with contraband and ended up in my county’s alternative school. I just wanted to know if and how this could potentially aff …

I am a sophomore in high school about to become a junior. I currently have a 3.3 unweighted gpa and I take all honors classes. I am planning on taking 3 AP classes next year. I want to raise my unweig …

How do you determine if you like a college campus over another one? I recently did a virtual tour of MSU and ASU and I like both I just can't determine which one I like better

Next year is my sophomore year in high school. I'm taking Honors Western Civics, Honors Biology, Honors Geometry, Honors Algebra 2, CP English 2 and CP Spanish 2. I have the opportunity to take Honor …

So I go to a private school where they kind of do whatever they want. We don't have A+ and the lowest class we can take is an honors-level class. That's fine with me except for the fact that they don' …

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I would really like to be a scientist working with genetic engeneering. But I'm not good at chemistry. I'm not sure if I'll be able to complete chemistry courses of biotech. Should I try bioinformatic …

I know on this site, colleges can connect with you, but there is also an application feature, so what does that do, and should I turn it on as a sophomore in high school? It seems the application feat …

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I'm currently a freshman in high school. Sophomore year I'll be taking honors classes and hopefully AP mixed with honors classes my junior year. I was wondering if taking 2-3 honors and 1-2 AP c …

Hello to anyone who reads this! Although The University of Southern California is one of my dream colleges, I am now a rising junior in Georgia. To those who were admitted, which classes did you enrol …

I know on this site, collages can connect with you, but there is also an application feature, so what does that do, and should I turn it on as a sophomore in highschool? It seems the application featu …

After completing a bachelor's degree 4-year program, I was thinking about going back to college for another 2-4 years for an associate/bachelor's degree so I could focus on extracurricular activities. …