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I'm going into my junior year of high school this year and I was wondering if I should wait to get recommendations or start now. I have a fairly high GPA and am looking to major in either mechanical o …

My SAT score is decent and would help with admissions but my ACT is lackluster and since I want to study music I don’t think it’d be that necessary to mention anyways. Thanks for the help.

I have just lost a great extracurricular opportunity with a 4000 dollars scholarship (global citizen year) due to a major miscommunication between the admissions office and I. I have done everything I …

My first semester of high school (last year), I did really poor. My second semester was good, but I'm worried that I'm going to fall back into my old habits. Does anyone have tips on how to stay motiv …

i have my own game how much will it affect my application (international student)???????

In my country, Dominican Republic, we don't have AP classes but we have AP exams center. How can I log in College Board for taking the exam? How many costs to take the exam? Is really important for m …

Hey so I'am a Senior in High school So far I'm currently taking difficult classes like Ap Chemistry, AP Calc AB,AP Lit, AP Capstone and U.S History.

I know Brown University would look into that and see …

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I am in the process of adding my recommenders to my commonapp, but I ran into a snag. At the beginning of summer, I asked my junior year english teacher if he could write my rec letter because I …

I am an Indian student who is looking forward to applying to the U.S. this year for further studies. Due to coronavirus, my school is not offering transcripts to ensure unbiased behaviour and only pro …

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approx 1 million students give ntse each year and I was ranked 52 (only 1000 students get selected from India andi was among them ).

it is conducted by govt of India

and I was ranked 86 on my kvpy te …

For the benefit of the younger CV members, I think it would be very useful to share whether you are planning to submit test scores this application cycle.

I think this poll will help other members und …

I want to apply and get accepted in the top colleges for undergrad degree:)

Would you reccomend to still do the SATs? Also, what are some of the colleges that still DO require the SATs? I’m especially curious about the Ivy League and high prestige universities like MIT and Ha …

So I’ve been hearing some contrasting things lately; do you apply for college in your juniour year, or senior year? Also, I’m planning on taking IB (and you do the actuall IB programme in your junior …

I am an intn'l student who did a gap year and might only start college this Oct. If I'd want to transfer before my 1rst academic year ends to a US college should I apply now as a transfer student?

Just a bit confused on how rolling admissions work.

I have a few questions regarding extracurriculars:

-Is playing the church organ considered an extracurricular, and what can put as a description?

-If I add music as an extracurricular, which is somethin …

I am an international student , I just wanted to know should my school management directly send the letters to the universities I am applying or should I upload it with my application,, Thanks .....

for context, i'm applying as a bio major. i'm planning on asking my APUSH teacher for one letter and one of my teachers in a STEM subject for the other (not sure what teacher yet). i'm considering my …