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Hello! I am a rising senior and I am prepping my essay prompt topics for the fall. I wanted my longer essay to center around my identity, specifically my locs. My locs are are huge part of African Ame …

I got a 2 on the test and First Semester I got a B and Second Semester, I got a A, and I'm planning on majoring in CS. Should I retake the test?

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I am currently an incoming senior and am having second thoughts about my extracurriculars. About 4-5 of my extracurriculars are internships. I originally thought work experience would impress co …

I had an eye infection the day of the APUSH exam. It was no longer contagious (the other eye was previously infected and i had been treating both eyes with the eye drops), and it seemed somewhat okay …

I failed 2 of my AP Tests (I got 2’s on both), but I already pre-sent them to the college I want to go to. What should be my next steps? I am a rising senior, so the option to retake is there. Should …

Hi I'm rising senior, I did not do well in my APUSH class this year so my Guidance Counselor will not let me take Ap Gov and economics instead I will take honors. How will this effect me? I did instea …

Hi, I am a rising senior suffering through the fateful summer where I need to wrap up my college essays. I have worked on a few topics for personal statements by now, and I eventually narrowed it down …

Why would the calculator say a school is a target at 78% when they recommend not submitting SAT scores and the student's GPA is lower than 25th percentile cohort.

I am a student based in India.

I run a Financial Research Association called 'Infinity Financial Research Association'.

I started it a year ago as a web platform but I didn't buy a domain name for it. …

I've had a rocky educational career the past few years

getting D's in English's about every year since 9th grade,

becoming a very average student academically.

which sucks, cause i was labeled as a gif …

So I screwed up my sophmore year first semester… I took math over the summer to accelerate 8th and 9th grade, I audited my 8th because I got a C, but got an A and and B for my 9th grade summer. In 9th …

My high school does not count honors classes in the weighted GPA. In my freshman year, I took many, many honors classes, so I was wondering if this would decrease my chances in getting into top colleg …

Background: A student from India. Studied in the CBSE curriculum till 11th Grade, dropped out and got homeschooled to explore more of my interests rather than wasting time in school studying things i …

I would like to get help from someone who can help me write my college essay

I am a rising senior and actually am lost on what to write about.I checked the common app essays but till i dont know what t …

Every time I try to manually enter my prompt, the page kinda glitches and reloads and takes away everything I typed in it. Does anyone know to fix this?

I completed my 11th grade with CBSE but dropped out and took a GED with a 190 score ... I have a score of 1550 in the SAT ... will it hurt my chances?

9th grade: 89%

10th: 91.6%

11th: 94%

12th (dropped o …

I’m attending the University of Maryland College Park (UMD) as a freshman this fall. I wanted to know if my major is marketable enough to get me into data science if I wanted to do it. UMD offers an …

Is the Collegevine chancing accurate enough? I used the College Board one and they're giving me different responses for the same university. For instance, the Collegevine one says that a university is …

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I am an Indian Student from CBSE Board.

My grades are as follows;

Class 9: 92.4%

Class 10: 98.4%

Class 11: 89.4%

Predicted Grade: 95%

SAT:

1st attempt: 1440

2nd attempt: 1560