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CollegeVine says that UC Santa Cruz is a safety school for me, but I only have a 4.0, with 5 AP's, 3 honors classes and very few extra curricular activities. Is this accurate?

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My mother is moving to California. How long do we need to be living in CA until I can qualify for in state tuition?

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Hi all, I’m looking for some advice in how to format one of my extracurriculars in the common app. I’m really involved with amnesty international, a human rights group, but my involvement has grown ov …

I'll be a senior in September and I've done a community service project that raised money and donated over 800 donations, done a competition but didn't win, did a club a year bac,performed in a poetry …

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I have been closely interning for my local congressman for 2 years now. Due to covid and online learning, my junior and senior year teachers haven't gotten much time to get to know me. I underst …

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When I was in Freshman and Sophomore year, my grades slipped because of my undiagnosed severe ADHD. This was solved in Junior year with medication and therapy. I am now going to end senior year …

Extracurricular activities as name suggests is any activity I do besides my main course / classroom work . I learned some programming languages online , I spent alot of time on it like 10-15hrs every …

I am an international student and I was hoping to apply to Trinity College this fall for a CS major. But I just discovered that this college is not anywhere in the QS World University Ranking or Times …

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I live in a state with very strict COVID guidelines and just got to take the ACT. Rising senior. I scored a 33 with 36R, 35 S, 32W, and 29M. I worry my math score is too low, I've had a fragmented mat …

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My school only offers 13 Ap classes i want to do comp sci economics stats but they dont offer it should i self study and take the test and do i get credits for that

also i plan to take AP eng, psy, bio …

I want to start a business but nervous of being unsuccessful if am hope I’m not would it be pointless to do and not improve me app

My common app essay is about an extracurricular. How do I mention this extracurricular on my application since I go in depth with it in my essay?

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I'm trying to look for internships near me, but I'm not sure what would be helpful to me. I want to go into the medical field, but most of the open internships need students who are in the undergrad " …