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When is usually the best time to get Rec letters from teachers. Currently I have till May end about till school ends and also is there a requirement for which teachers I have to get it from.

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I'm a freshman and this summer I was planning on taking chemistry to prepare for AP Bio. At my school most of the people in AP Bio are sophomores who took chemistry freshman year. Current …

Hello, everyone. I recently was contacted by an admission officer privately from a top 50 university. They asked me to provide some more information regarding my academics and some other aspects of …

I've been looking at the stats of others and have seen people mention weighted GPA a lot but do college actually look at that? Especially with how different it is at different schools. For example I h …

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Last week, I was defferred from Northeastern early action. I clicked the continue interest button on their form but I was wondering if it would be helpful to write a letter of continued interest wi …

Hi, I just moved to a new high school on 01/17 and I've had some trouble with the counseling team when it comes to my grade level. At my last school I was classified as a sophomore with 16.5 credits ( …

Will he qualify as a California resident regarding admission, scholarship and grants at UCLA and the other UC campuses? Please let me hear from you.

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So currently I have a 4.41 weighted gpa and 3.8 Unweighted GPAA but our honors classes at our school are on a 4.5 scale and AP 5.0 so I was wondering what colleges do to recalculate GPA

I’m currently halfway through my freshman year in high school. I’ve been thinking about wanting to aim for an Ivy League, with plans set for my stats, however I’m mainly worried about my extracurricul …

I’m a junior right now looking into selective colleges (Uchicago is my top choice) and I’m having trouble deciding between AP Physics C and AP Psychology for Senior year. Here are the other classes I’ …

I'm a fairly new College counselor and I'm learning how to fill out a mid year report on common app. When it asks to list the starting and ending dates, which dates do I put? The dates from which the …

I'm sri lankan girl. I want to know why was me selected this because I can't believe.

I go to a public school with 980 students in my grade. A new school counselor was hired this year to advise approximately 500 students. I only met her for the first time during my first of 2 20-minu …

Hey y'all, I felt the urge to reach out to other Bowdoin EDII applicants after the decisions date got moved up to this Friday. How are you guys feeling??

USC deferred basically every single person who applied for early action this year. I wanted to ask if I still had any chance of being admitted or if should I look at attending another school I've alre …

Since I currently live in a country which is not the United States is it possible to take honour classes? And if not would that affect the desition taking from the university?

I was waitlisted from UNC-Chapel Hill OOS last Friday. Would a thoughtful letter of continued interest help increase my chances of getting off the waitlist? If so, under which category should I upload …

I'm currently a junior and my estimated gpa at the end of this year is exactly a 3.7 unweighted. I obviously don't know my weighted gpa because I don't know what I'll score on my AP tests, but I'm gue …

Hello, so I am currently a senior in high school with a 2.5 (2.6 weighted) Cumulative GPA.

From trimester one to trimester two I managed to raise my cumulative gpa from 2.4 to 2.6

I was wondering if …

im currently a sophomore.

my school is built weird and basically i have a total of 16 classes (from 9th and 10th combined) that are equivalent to honors courses. so technically, I have 16 honors cours …