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I've never heard of this guy Satyajit Dattagupta but I think he's a genius of sorts. Why? Because single-handedly he was responsible for implementing the marketing strategy for Tulane which got them f …

what extracurriculars/classes look good?

i do:

soccer

lacrosse

visual design courses

all honors classes

early college

is there anything i can add?

I attend a very competitive gifted high school where nearly everyone has goals of attending an Ivy League school or another college of the same caliber. Most people have a GPA greater than 3.7 (many h …

Hi, I'm a 15 year old junior in high school.

I've been wanting to take part in internships and research opportunities, but the age requirement always seems to cut off at 16. I've reached out multiple …

Sophomore

Speech and Debate Captain

Newspaper Co Editor-in-Chief

AP/Honors student

4.0 gpa

I plan on: attending summer camps, starting a film club, making short films, starting a film podcast (if anyone ca …

I applied to NYU and my English teacher agreed to write and submit a letter. I even followed up with her. Turns out she never did which means my application wasn’t completed. Is there is anything I ca …

Any competitions/contests or remote programs ECs for STEM majors (mainly engineering/compsci) that are still open? I already have pretty strong ECs, I'm just looking for more opportunities to add.

Tha …

In 1 cycle, Wesleyan's admit rates dropped about 30%, in large to almost getting an additional 20% in applications.

This year they received 14521 applications and accepted 2013 for their freshman clas …

Although NW received a record 51554 applications vs 47174 last cycle, it admitted almost 400 more incoming freshman than last cycle.

Since they had a yield rate of 52% for the Class of 24 and a yield …

I am starting the process of writing and thinking about college application essays and was wondering where I can find things to include vs what not to. Also, what makes a good application essay.

I am currently a junior in high school and will be a senior next year, my parents keep telling me to start applying for scholarships as soon as possible. They are telling me to apply for as many as I …

This cycle the Tuft admission office received 34880 applications and just accepted 9.0% vs 11.43% last year.

This marks the first time Tufts has broken through the magical 10% acceptance rate barrier.

These are the stats for Vanderbilt's 3 rounds of applications

ED1 - 650 admits out of 2700 for a 24.07% ED1 rate

ED2 - 250 admits out of 2407 for a 10.33% ED2 rate

RD - 1964 admits out of 41610 for a 4.7 …

In last month's Daily Free Press, it was stated that BU wanted to curb enrollment at 3200 but ended up enrolling 4011 or 811 more freshman for the Class of '25 vs Class of '24.

https://dailyfreepress.c

Even though official numbers are not out, this newsletter spills the beans and states that Tulane received about 42000 applications (vs 45517) and that they are going to accept about 10% this year (vs …

This is a huge surprise because in the past couple cycles Emory was struggling to be competitive with say Tulane, USC, WashU. Now they have dropped to the "uber"-competitive category of near-elite col …

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I'm a junior currently and feel as though I need to do more for community service. I just don't know where to start or how to even "log" my community service. I do most of service through BETA but oth …

Hi!! I'm an upcoming junior applying to UCLA SON. what do you think my chancing would be and if you were on an admission team would you accept this? I'm also a Canadian high school student so most of …

I am a junior in high school and I have an unweighted gpa of 3.9, barely any extracurriculars and no AP classes (though I applied to take 4 in senior year).

I want to major in computer science and I k …