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For preschool, kindergarten, and first grade, I was homeschooled. When my parents decided I should attend public school, I was entered into the first grade, even though I was a year older than the oth …

Hi! i'm scared with how my grades look . . . I'm not a senior, but I still want to know if I'm screwed, as I want to get into an Ivy League school (I don't know if this is chancing, but I'm sorry if i …

Hi. I’d like to ask a genuine question, When I “finished” high school last year, I was awarded a Certificate of Completion not a high school diploma because I failed in multiple subjects mostly mathem …

I recently went through the challenges of a job search, and it taught me a lot about resiliessence and being optimistic. I want to write about it but I don't know if it's too recent to be reflected on …

Is there a place to add my service hours too? I am a current Junior and would like to have the most accurate idea of what schools I can shoot for and what not.

So I'm Brazilian and so are my parents, and of course I put myself down as Hispanic. The thing is, I don't know if I should put myself down as black or not. My fathers parents are both of African desc …

Hello! Current junior here. I attend a school with the option for students to participate in the Cambridge AICE Diploma program. I have a few AICE exam results I would like to add to my profile, but C …

Hello! Current junior here. I attend a school with the option for students to participate in the Cambridge AICE Diploma program. I have a few AICE exam results I would like to add to my profile, but C …

I'm a junior and I want to get into difficult schools. Unfortunately, I didn't realize how important your freshman year was for your GPA and now I feel very behind. I have a 3.65 unweighted and a 3.85 …

So I want to major in Psychology (double major in smth else, but that's not relevant), and I know Stats is super important for that. So next year (11th/Junior) I can take either AP Calc AB, which is t …

Math 800.

What if I score lower? Will it effect the admission process, or I can still be considered with my highest score?

There's about 6-8 essays total, I've done 4.

1 is about what you lose track of time doing, I wrote about how I'm creative with my hands with things such as welding and leatherwork.

2 is about a signif …

I know I’m super late to this but I’ve really been struggling trying to find a good topic to write my essay on. I’ve drafted some but I feel like they seem like sob stories. The prompts on the common …

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I feel good about it being honest, but I feel as if there is something wrong with it. As if something is missing.

I’m a senior and my college counselor told me it would be better to take 6 classes my senior year, but so far the workload is too much for me, along with my ECs and applications. My school does not o …

Good Evening, I had registered for SAT exam. I don't know if I going to pass SAT because I beginning to feel worry and nervous about this when I going to get a low score.

I'm a junior in high school and I want to major in psychology, but I also want to double major. I'm also planning on minoring in chemistry and pursuing a masters so I can become a forensic psychologis …

I’m an African high school junior who is in an early college competitive high school in Texas. I’m rank 40/96 (working on it) but I am on track to getting my associates degree by the time I graduate h …

I have ADHD and while prestige is important, so is access to great disability services. I tried looking up rankings, but nothing seems to give me a clear answer. What are some colleges that are good f …