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I'm from a full-time school in Brazil, and our HS curriculum is quite different, even compared to Brazilian ones. While we aren't offered any AP classes, we have to take around 70 classes in 3 years t …

Is going to the UPenn College of the Arts & Sciences worth it for undergrad? The majors I'm looking at are environmental science, social sciences, arts (studio art/painting), and English (basically an …

I will have taken 4 AP classes all together, 3 honors and 2 college courses with a 4.06 gpa. How is my academic rigor? I am late to realizing the importance of AP classes and am taking one now as a ju …

I am a Sophomore who is going into my 11th grade. In Ohio, we have the option to go to a vocational school if accepted. I got accepted into a vocational school specifically into a 2-year Biotechnology …

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I'm taking a class at a local community college that ended up being pretty difficult for some reason and currently I have a B. I would honestly be pure luck if I were able to bring that up to an …

Do colleges give strong consideration to an applicant whose sister is currently at a university and whose father is an alumni? The acceptance rate at this university is 11 percent, but my son is ranke …

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I am currently residing in Singapore and am doing my A-levels. I wish to apply to undergraduate computer science course but am not able to locate the subject and grade requirements for my particul …

Hi everybody! I applied to school around mid/late January and haven’t heard anything back except that my application was received. Should I be worried??? Everyone is telling me that I should’ve heard …

On college vine profile, would I put my unweighted GPA from 9th-12th or use only 10th-11th since that's what the UC GPA calculates? Thanks!

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This is more of a curiosity question tbh, but I was wondering if a student were to have several A's at a certain community college and a single B, would it be necessary to report the grade that …

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Thank you in advance for any advice.

I am currently a high-school junior and in college, I want to study poli-sci and econ. My academics are solid (4.0/1570+tons of AP) and I'm decent at writing, so …

Will this affect my admissions to top universities such as upenn, Harvard, yale?

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Hi Im a sophmore and am in my last 9 weeks for the year and I checked my gpa to find out I have a 2.0 (super bummed about it ). Is it possible that if work hard enough I could end up with a 3.7 gpa by …

I'm a junior in high school who's planning on going into STEM. I have some solid extracurriculars, but I'm looking to participate in some research-orientated ones. I don't know what would be accessibl …

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I am currently residing in Singapore and am doing my A-levels. I wish to apply to undergraduate computer science course but am not able to locate the subject and grade requirements for my particul …

I was trying to fill payment for sat may registration but it is saying try with another credit card or verify your credit card information

Hi everyone, I'm a HS senior and I just got into UCLA, my dream school. I'm currently taking 4 AP classes and I have As in all of them except for AP calc, which I'm failing. Because of my teacher's gr …

Hey! Have any of you applied to NASA internships before? If so, if you applied to the Summer session, when did you hear back from your specific projects, or how does the whole ordeal work? Additionall …

I've heard a lot of talk about how hard the SAT is, and I know a lot of people who took a ton of really intensive prep classes, and my dad thinks I'll need to take stuff like that too. However, I feel …

I'm a current junior who is considering applying ED to Upenn Wharton but I'm not sure if my ecs are strong enough.