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Because the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions on June 29th, we recently updated our chancing algorithm so that the impact of your ethnicity is greatly reduced. As a result, your chan …

Texas A&M asks "Please indicate any math course you have completed or will complete during high school from the list below" on the common app. Do the courses have to be offered by my high school or co …

I was accepted into the New York Academy of Sciences this year and I did the Junior Academy challenge this year. I’m thinking of doing another challenge for Spring 2022, but I was wondering: is this p …

I've assessed a couple of essays for the past few weeks, and most of my feedback from the writers has been pretty good. I plan to continue doing so because I feel like I'm able to provide concrete fee …

Today Wash U announced that 700 HS students including 75 Questbridge matches were admitted from around 2000 applications. Last year they had about 1785.

I'm a high school junior and I'm currently enrolled in an accredited online school, but the thing is do I put this activity as an extracurricular or can I summit the transcript from the online school …

The Holiday season is supposed to be the best time of the year filled with great celebrations such as Christmas, Hannukah, and New Year. Yet for many seniors, it's the worst time because it's college …

I'm applying as a film and media studies, wrote my common application about filmmaking, and a lot of my extracurriculars are about my filmmaking experience. Should I put the links to my films in the a …

Hey Guys! I'm currently almost done with my first semester of sophomore year. I asked this question because I wasn't in a mentally stable place in freshman year and ended with a 3.53/4 GPA. This semes …

I plan to apply to some of the top universities like Georgia Tech, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon.

Should I take both the SAT and ACT? I think I can squeeze in another fine arts activity if I didn't ha …

Have any of you actually attended a service academy or completed any ROTC? If so, did you enjoy it and would you recommend it? I have a military-based background as I am in JROTC and a member of the U …

How can I better prepare for applying to the United States Air Force Academy? I'm good academically, but when it comes to the physical aspect, I don't know how to get better or stronger. Any exercise …

I am now done with my associates degree from community college. I know am left with the task of finding where I finish my bachelors. There are a lot of ways to for incoming freshman to assess their ch …

Almost a couple months after moving places, the covid-pandemic began and I attended school virtual until the end of 8th grade. In 9th grade I didn't really do as many extracurriculars, I was half comm …

So basically before I graduated (I took a gap year) my counselor quit and then the counselor that replaced him also quit so I have basically no counselor to ask for a letter of rec. The only teacher I …

UVA ED Acceptance rate was down about 6.4% compared to the last cycle.

As college cost of attendance continues to push toward $90,000 for private colleges, more high-achieving students are looking tow …

IMMEDIATE HELP NEEDED TO KNOW I'M NOT GOING CRAZY.

I'm a 16 year old junior in high school and have a 3.4 GPA unweighted. My parents made up the rule, that if I am not studying every waking chance I ca …

Hi! I have recently started my Common App essay and I need help figuring out which would look better. In my essay, I have a quote from my parents saying something in another language. Should I write t …

Hello! My name is Evan, and on Saturday (12/10/2022) I won second place in an international chess competition on Chess.com that consisted of over 2,000 people (all age groups). In addition to this, in …

Any suggestions for great pre-med colleges with nearby hospital, easily accessible research opps, not too big or not small (4000-10000), suburban or urban, great biology program with a focus on molecu …

The title pretty much says it all. I've invested a lot of time in fanfiction. I don't like generally linking my personal identity with my internet fanfiction-writer persona because fanfiction writing …