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Hello, I am a current freshman who is hoping to get into Harvard. I am currently taking 3 honors classes, and I plan to take 14 AP classes and 7 honors classes by the end of high school, and take astr …

The colleges I connected with aren't the ones I'm applying to, and I don't really have specific questions. However, I am somewhat interested in one of them that I heard was very rigorous. How do I go …

1510 SAT, prob will retake (740 eng 770 math)

ACT pending score

1500 PSAT, prob nm finalist

4.0 unweighted, 4.45 weighted (4.0 scale, 4.5=honors, 5.0=ap)

6 aps total by the end of this year (calc ab+bc, c …

I wondered if I should wait until I am a Junior or Senior before applying. It is very important to me that I get into a good college, but I don't know if it is too early.

Hi, I’m applying Early Decision 2 to a relatively less competitive NYU school. Unfortunately I ended the semester with an F in my AP 2D art class, and I’m really worried about how the midyear repo …

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I have noticed that once a college connects with me, they never respond to any of the questions I have after the connection. Are others experiencing this or is it just me? I don't want to keep as …

I want to major in engineering, (I'm currently a sophomore), but I feel like all the extracurricular activities I'm involved in don't show that. Can I attend any summer or online programs to show my i …

With being adopted the state you were adopted in provides you free college. I heard that it only will work if you went to a public college. I am coming to the end of my high school career, so I was wo …

I am in my senior year at a British school in Valencia Spain. I started at the school in my junior year. Prior to that I was at an American school in Taipei Taiwan for my freshman and sophomore year. …

These are my activities as listed on my Common App. Please recommend improvements, criticisms(constructive of course).

I'm a West Indian/Caribbean student who have good CSEC and average CAPE results.

I recently received an acceptance letter from one of my top-choice schools. However, I'm still waiting to hear back from other schools that I've applied to. I'm feeling quite overwhelmed by all the in …

I am concerned about my college list. My name is Mariana and I am a Brazilian senior

My unw. GPA is 3.75 and my SAT is 1460 (710 for reading and 750 for math). I listed 5 honors that are nati …

Hello, I’m a 9th grader and was wondering if I could put this on college application in the future. For reference, the group had around 400-500k members in its prime making around 50 mil robux(which I …

I'm very interested in nuclear fusion, so much so that I'm doing a school project on nuclear fusion (and into a senior project, hopefully). To make it into a senior project, I need to shadow a profess …

I'm highly interested in chemistry but I have a C in summer chemistry and a D first quarter in AP Chemistry. Im improving though. Will it ruin my chances of getting into an lvy league when applying in …

Hi! I used to use collegevine on my school account, but at some point my school decided to not let students log into collegevine (and many other websites) with their school account. Since then, I have …

I want to go into biophysics/molecular biology but my school offers practically no science extraccuriculars at the high school level, and my family doesn't have the time or money to handle transportat …

I've heard that the dorms for honors college are generally newer and have features like single rooms (so no roomates) and/or private bathrooms.

Is that true?

I'm not worried about the being "isolated" p …

Where can I find a definition of "reach" vs "target" vs "hard target" vs "safety"?

Is it based on just % chance of getting in ? If so, where are they listed out? Or is based on other criteria as well …

I’m in my sophomore year in high school and my school offers dual enrollment at a local public college, as well as AP and AICE classes as well. I’m taking de and aice classes currently and plan on tak …