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Hi, I am a rising junior in high school needing urgent college admissions help!

I am trying to go pre-med, but I do not have many STEM extracurriculars. My main spikes are my own initiatives/employment …

l am an age group nationalist triathlete and I'm looking into collages and l want to find some that have a triathlete team. Do any schools offer such teams?

My UC GPA is a 4.57 when you calculate the extra point they give for APs. Will they consider my UC GPA to be a 4.57, or just a 4?

I'm currently completely lost in what majors I really want to pursue but the ones that have remained constant over the past few years have been Psychology, Biology and Neuroscience. I initially wanted …

Hello everyone,

So I have had all As (with the exception of one B in physics junior year first semester) throughout the past four years, and I was accepted to Stanford this year.

However, this past seme …

i blew by school until high school. even in sophmore and freshman year i kept up a 4.0 gpa. but this year i really struggled and my grades have suffered. i have 3 B’s, 2 A’s, a C, and a D. i also got …

I’m currently at the end of my sophomore year and i’m on track to take pre calculus my junior year but I want to be able to take Calculus BC my senior year so I have two choice either take pre calculu …

I’m currently a rising senior who already submitted my course schedule for next year, but I can still change classes up until July. I’m worried that my senior schedule isn’t rigorous enough compared t …

Sophmore in High School

How to write a great essay?

I'm a junior at high school in India. I plan to major in Law and I'm targeting top colleges in Australia. Is this profile below good enough?

Extra Curriculars:

1) Legal- I have interned with two differe …

Hello, I am trying to plan my freshman year roughly and am thinking of these courses for my first semester. However, I am worried that it will be too much.

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After completing a bachelor's degree 4-year program, I was thinking about going back to college for another 2-4 years for an associate/bachelor's degree so I could focus on extracurricular activities. …

Before I took the SAT, I decided to choose colleges to send my score to because my teacher said that it will show that I'm interested in attending there. I got my results back and it was lower than wh …

In my school list here on collegevine, i have schools which are listed as applying. Does that mean that collegevine does the application for me or those are the schools that i should apply for?

Would the Purdue School of Business be considered a safety school for me if they have an acceptance rate of 47% and there average GPA is 3.37 but mine is 3.83?

I'm a junior that's school year will end in mid-June.

P.S. Any suggestions on who should proofread the essay

I've been reading since October and I don't know if it would count as Community Service, a hobby, own initiative, etc (college vine wise and admissions)

My apologies if this is a silly question or should be obvious.

When I graduate high school, I will have taken 25 dual credit classes and will receive an Associate Degree in Engineering. I know AP and H …