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Hi! I am a rising senior in high school and I am looking at many of the top colleges. I am planning on majoring in finance and hopefully landing a job that is finance-related. I would like to know wha …

A few colleges' are revealing their supplemental essay prompts for the class of 2022 and I would really appreciate if someone should maybe provide some tips and how to do about answering these questio …

Hi! MIT is my dream school but something that really worries me is how hard the classes (especially science and math) will be. I have heard of many geniuses who are struggling to pass classes at MIT, …

I’m going to be apply ED to Villanova and have not been able to get a specific stat of whether or not the chances dramatically increase. Also if you do not need financial aid are you more likely to ge …

Is this an overused topic that will not make me stand out?

I want to know my chances of getting into Villanova. I will be apply early decision I have a weighted gpa of 4.0+ and 5 solid EC. I have a rigorous schedule as well.

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I am taking Honors English and Advanced Algebra 2. Are they worth the same to colleges.

I'm a rising senior. I want apply to college before the fall, so maybe get all my schools done by september. I've watched videos, read articles, done so much research on schools, essays, fafsa, etc. I …

I'm debating whether I should join my school's robotics team. I'm really interested in learning more about electrical engineering, but the thing is I'm also joining track & cross country which I enjoy …

Hello everyone! I'm back with part 2 of BS/MD program information as promised. For those of you are seeing these posts for the first time, if you want, feel free to refer to my first post on this topi …

I know some colleges consider demonstrated interests, but how do they know that this student has demonstrated interest in their college? Do they know if you emailed questions, attended virtual info se …

Going into freshman year. My goal is to get accepted into Georgetown SFS.

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Hey everyone!

I'm a rising junior in high school and I've been really thinking about college lately. As of now, these are my strongest extracurriculars:

- CS Club (9-present) [President]

Planning to orga …

The collegevine tiered extracurricular thing said that tier A for art-related activities is getting your artwork sold for $5000+. I've actually done that, and was wondering where I should put it on my …

I asked my guidance counselor how to get waivers for college applications and he wrote me a letter, so how does that work when I apply?

I was just going to get started on my supplemental essays to Amherst and some other schools, but some college YouTuber I was watching just said that Amherst updates and makes supplemental essay topics …

I have been playing the violin since 6th grade and I am about to be a junior:

I do have:

Solo Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor Allemanda

Solo Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor Corrente

Solo Violin Partita No …

I moved here from India 3 years ago and the place I grew up is extremely important to me. I really want to write about that but since I'm Asian American, an immigrant story would be too cliche. I want …