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I am currently in 9th grade and I have made up my mind to get into a top tier medical school and an excellent college. Currently, I have straight A's in all my classes, I participate in chess, dance, …

I’m in my junior year, I take AP courses from an accredited online school and they provide transcripts at the end of the year to show how I did throughout the year and I’m also taking AP Exams. Will …

I'm a junior. I have no leadership positions (correction, I have one small one) because I transferred to a new school at the start of my junior year.

I am in JROTC, JROTC Knowledge Bowl (since freshma …

I'm a senior, here is my AP coursework and scores as of now:

9th: Music Theory - 5

10th: APUSH 1 (no exam 1st year)

11th: APUSH 2 - 5

AP Lang - 4

2D Art - 3

Physics 1 - 1 (not …

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I'm a junior, 3.8 gpa, and I've been a member of Student Council for the last 3 years. However, I've been contemplating quitting it in my senior year for several reasons, the largest of which is that …

Freshman year was my COVID-19 year where everything was online, and I had severe depression at the time. Currently, I am a Junior taking two AP classes and have had almost straight A's (with the excep …

Freshman year was my COVID-19 year where everything was online, and I had severe depression at the time. Because of this, my grades were at an all time low. But currently, I am a Junior taking two AP …

I have a 3.8 cumulative unweighted first sem of junior year, a 4.0 first sem rn, hoping to get to 3.9 unweighted senior. I got a 79% in Ap world last year. Will this kick me out of Columbia running? I …

I am wondering what gpa is taken into account during the admission process. For example, my current gpa is 3.72, I am taking 4 AP classes this year (senior year). I assume my weighted gpa will be incr …

I understand that when schools offer an optional essay to be submitted, it isn't actually optional. However, I have seen a few colleges ask for an optional essay done within 12 months of school, but I …

My high school works with a 7-point grade average, they do not measure in GPA so I have to calculate it myself.

My unweighted GPA, through converting my average in 7-point grade average ( 5.857... out …

I'm a current junior and thinking about applying to a program for the summer. These would be mutually exclusive, so if I sign up for one, I would be expected to do that one and not the other. One is t …

I’m hoping to end my first semester with a 3.3 UW and with 4 B’s and 2 A’s. I’ve been ahead in math by a couple years so I took Alg 1, Geo, Alg 2, and got B’s which explain the somewhat low gpa starti …

I am a 10th grader at an Early College High School. I am currently taking 5 honors classes and 3 college classes.I chose to go here because I have a dream of majoring in astronomy at RICE University. …

Okay so thoughts about multiple colleges wanting to connect even tho I'm waiting for a specific one to connect with me

Hey guys, so I currently have a 3.3 GPA and im in my Sophomore year at Penn State, (I'm finishing up my last two semester at PSU and then applying to UPenn... Is this a good decision to make? I know t …

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I am a sophomore taking a heavy course load of all weighted classes. One of my classes is known to be the hardest in our school - it is an Advanced Honors PreCalculus class (I am in 10th grade) wh …

I swear I checked over and over and just happened not to catch them before hitting submit. I did things like forgetting to put a space between a word, mispelling one word on my resume, and forgetting …