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I am a sophmore (in florida) and have started to take dual enrollment classes and was wondering should i spend more time on ap or dual enrollment. I was also considering doing early admissions at my l …

I am applying Regular Decision as a first-time freshman to the University of Southern California and the University of Richmond. The Regular Decision deadlines are January 15 and January 1, respective …

Hello, I am a writer for the Medium online writing platform. As this is not a school publication or a personal blog, I'm not really sure where this would go on CollegeVine's tiers. Could someone point …

Hello, I am a junior in High school right now. I took two APs last year (AP Bio and Modern European History) and am taking five this year (AP Chem, APUSH, AP French, AP Calc BC, and AP Language and Co …

I’ve had a rough finish in the finale of the 2019-20 academic year and ended with four B’s and a C in health! Did this ultimately ruin me? I’ve taken all Honors and AP last year and this year I’ve tak …

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I turned in the form for the application review but I didn't receive any information after that so could someone tell me what usually happens? Do we get a notification if our profile is se …

Hi, I'm a senior working on college applications.

I have automatic admission to UT but I'm really passionate about getting into the Dean's scholars program (a College of Natural Sciences honors program …

Most colleges provide a 25-75 percentile of average scores by students, and if my score is lower than the minimum, how do I know how many points below the minimum is too much? I don't want to hurt my …

One of the suggestions listed is that I should try and add at list one Tier G extracurricular . What is an example of a Tier G extracurricular.

i’m building my chancing profile and since my school doesn’t offer any ap classes i wrote 0 to all of the coursework spaces. but when it’s chancing me i think the algorithm thinks about me as i had a …

Should I apply test-optional to Carnegie Mellon and Columbia University with my 1440?

Here's my dilemma -- for both of these schools, I fall below even the 25th percentile score (Carnegie -- 1460, Col …

I wrote out my first name and my middle name in my CollegeVine profile. I want to change it so that it only shows my first name, but it's greyed out and I can't even click it. What should I do?

A significant feature of my college application is being the recipient of a nationwide scholarship to study abroad as one of only 65 students selected by the U.S. State department to participate in an …

I am having some trouble figuring out what the best extracurricular things I can do to get into Stanford are. My school doesn’t have honors society’s and I’m not sure how to really make myself seem wo …

Hi!!! My dream school is Stanford and right now my school is having us choose our classes for Junior year. I have take Honors Biology and Honors Chemistry as they were the highest science classes avai …

Will submitting 0 of the 4 AP exams I have already taken negatively affect my application by a decent amount? I scored 3's in both AP Histories and 2 in AP Chem and AP environmental science. However, …

I’m a student currently studying in class 12. I’ve got good grades in my 10th boards and decent marks up till class 12. I want to apply for a university(first-year student). I have a few queries regar …

I am a junior in high school looking to apply to business schools for a career in product development/design/management. Based in California, I hope to apply to UChicago and UPenn with this in mind, a …

How do I find a mentor if its even worth it if i am considering applying to bsmd programs also i am a sophmore

How exactly does the peer review service work? I used it like once or twice, expedited on both, and one got reviewed in like half an hour while the other one took like 8. The conclusion I came up with …