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I am going to be a junior in fall and am concerned about whether I will get into a prestigious college in California. My GPA is low because of personal issues (3.4, max 3.55 by the end of junior year) …

Why do all my school say merit scholarships unlikely when the school website says my scores will get an automatic merit?

Hi! I’m an incoming junior and I need to know if my grades are competitive enough for Ivies, Rice, Northeastern, Stanford, and MIT. I already have some alright extracurriculars. I co-started a compute …

I'm an uprising senior looking to apply for colleges. My target school UCLA requires applicants to have a minimum of 2 years of a foreign language, although I've never taken them throughout high schoo …

For some colleges on the Common App, I cannot pick my major because the college doesn't have it on their list of intended majors. I want to take Pre-Med/Pre-Health (which I understand is a track, not …

I attend Cheatham County Central High School. This year I will be a sophomore and I have recently had an intrest about colleges. I have a 4.0 and a 26 on my ACT but I will get that score much higher i …

I am filling out an apply Texas application form and there is a prompt that says this:

Extracurricular 2 Sophomore Year Position(s) Held

Do you know what I should write there?

Hi, so I'm a rising highschool senior and I'm starting to plan out my college essay.

Being transgender is a big part of my identity and my life, and I knew immediately I wanted to write about it. Howev …

I am about to start high school in two years and asked my counselor if I could take any AP/IB classes. To my surprise she said that the school doesn't offer AP/IB and they only offer college classes o …

I will be graduating highschool with a full enrollment in a local college that has given me about 25 college credits approved. I understand every school is different, but is there a way to know what t …

I want to ask how can I get scholarship?

I'm grade 10 student I want to be a surgeon and I want ask which subjects should I focus to be a surgeon ?

I have taken the SAT and have received average/below average scores (1270 range). I really want/need a 1400+ to be a competitive applicant at certain schools. My English score was 700, but my math sco …

the app says my coursework is below average because i have 0 ap/ib/honors classes. this is because my highschool is in nigeria and doesn’t offer any. what do i do?

im interested in double majoring in Econ and polysci but im not sure which to list as my intended major on my applications. I got 5s on both my us gov and macro econ exams. I'm leaning toward poly sci …

Hey everyone,

I am an international who recently graduated and wants to enroll in an American university next year. I learned about the admission process and particularly about the importance of AP cla …

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im a high school rising junior in a small school. we dont have many ap courses or extracurriculars and i just started getting interested in where im going to college (ik its kinda late) and i c …

I had been dealing with personal issues my junior year and history was already a hard subject with me but with the extra stress of my other stuff I ended up getting a D in the ap us history class. Now …

anyone with insight on how much weight schools view L10 gymnastics. Is it a waste of time as an EC if the college applying to is not a gymnastics school. Do admissions see value in it? It's a lot of …

I plan on emphazing that crocheting taught me that making mistakes are ok and it has shown me that starting over is a part of life/my life. I also used to be afraid of making mistakes, but bc of croch …