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I tried to fill out the financial profile but ended up having to skip a lot of stuff I didn't know. Now my estimates are ridiculously inaccurate. How do I reset it so I can get back to normal tuition …

I'm currently a rising sophomore, and I'm quite good at geogaphy. I think that I'm probably in the running for qualifying for the International Geography Olympiad (iGeo), which is the highest level ge …

Hi! I’m currently going into my sophomore year of high school and am really interested in the medical field. Seemingly, I wanted to do a program over the summer of my junior year that relates to medic …

I took summer courses at a community college but had to drop one of them because it was extremely difficult. However , this caused a “W” on the community college transcript. My question is, If I …

I plan to apply to the school of nursing there and I was wondering if I could also submit any recordings of violin as well.

I am an upcoming sophmore in high school and I'm a pretty average student, I want to know how to become a better student that can impress colleges more. I already do dance as an extracurricular, but I …

I am interested in doing research in my undergraduate years and I am interested in participating in programs such as the Freshman Research Initiative and the MD Anderson Pilot Project. Are there any o …

Currently, I am going to be a senior this fall, and I just want to know when it's the right time to ask and to apply for colleges.

I am a rising senior and am confused on how I can begin writing the "why this major" and the "why us" essays.

I am going to be a junior in fall and am concerned about whether I will get into a prestigious college in California. My GPA is low because of personal issues (3.4, max 3.55 by the end of junior year) …

Why do all my school say merit scholarships unlikely when the school website says my scores will get an automatic merit?

Hi! I’m an incoming junior and I need to know if my grades are competitive enough for Ivies, Rice, Northeastern, Stanford, and MIT. I already have some alright extracurriculars. I co-started a compute …

I'm an uprising senior looking to apply for colleges. My target school UCLA requires applicants to have a minimum of 2 years of a foreign language, although I've never taken them throughout high schoo …

For some colleges on the Common App, I cannot pick my major because the college doesn't have it on their list of intended majors. I want to take Pre-Med/Pre-Health (which I understand is a track, not …

I attend Cheatham County Central High School. This year I will be a sophomore and I have recently had an intrest about colleges. I have a 4.0 and a 26 on my ACT but I will get that score much higher i …

I am filling out an apply Texas application form and there is a prompt that says this:

Extracurricular 2 Sophomore Year Position(s) Held

Do you know what I should write there?

Hi, so I'm a rising highschool senior and I'm starting to plan out my college essay.

Being transgender is a big part of my identity and my life, and I knew immediately I wanted to write about it. Howev …

I am about to start high school in two years and asked my counselor if I could take any AP/IB classes. To my surprise she said that the school doesn't offer AP/IB and they only offer college classes o …

I will be graduating highschool with a full enrollment in a local college that has given me about 25 college credits approved. I understand every school is different, but is there a way to know what t …

I want to ask how can I get scholarship?