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Chapter One

The Door

John Utterson was a lawyer. He lived in London and seemed to be a cold man also without feeling. He never smiled. He only spoke when it was necessary. People liked him. …

I understand that moving is a very cliche topic, especially for international students. But my life has honestly been centered around moving.

I moved to Canada when I was six from Korea, and to differ …

TOP Admissions Trends for 2023 (Class of 2027)

These are some thoughts for 9th-11th graders to think about the upcoming admissions cycle. Since it's a discussion, feel free to add your comments or add …

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I am an international student planning to apply to US this year. So wanted to ask whether MUN is impressive. I have participated in 3 MUN, but it is really rare for students from my country to …

Heres what I am thinking about for my "Why Us" essay for University of VermontBasically UVM has a program where you can raise up a cow. Growing up working on a farm during the summers was something re …

I play chess as a hobby. I was able to receive rating of 2059 on lichess website(95th percentile). Should I report it as one of the extracurriculars? What will be strength of this extracurricular acco …

Hi there! My school uses the 100 GPA scale and I would like to know both of my GPAs in the 4.0 scale, for college chancing reasons. I tried researching what my GPAs would be but I'm skeptical about it …

On the common app one of the activties i'm trying to put is football but what should i describe or say in the area where it asks you too describe the activty and recognition i was gonna put i was a fr …

I want to go to Rice university but my SAT scores are pretty low. My unweighted GPA is 3.91 and my weighted GPA is 4.98. I have a pretty extensive list of extracurriculars. Do you think I still have a …

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Hi there! I was recently received an emailed from BigFuture, asking if I'd like to join their ambassador program. I'm unsure whether or not to join and I can't find much information online. If there i …

I am an international student applying to top20 universities in the US; I take the IB and have a 39 predicted (out of 42), and wanted to ask if it was recommended to take the SAT or not. I am applying …

I took my first ACT in March and got a 34 composite (E: 35, R: 29, M: 36, S: 36). I wanted to retake the exam because of the 29 in reading, which looks bad as I intend on applying as a poli sci major.

At my school to become a junior you have to have 13 credits, but I have 16. Is that good?

Should it be a populated one - like biomedical?

Or, less populated - like Nuclear?

Hi! I have a 4.1 weighted 3.8 unweighted gpa but a 22 ACT score and I'm worried that this will negatively impact me getting into college. Should I apply test-optional or no?

I had a bad 3 years and it affected my grades I am now in my senior year with a 2.5 GPA I know I won't make it to a 3.0 but I was wondering if is it possible to go to a community college and raise my …

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I am an international student and I have graduated high school with a 85.8% overall average in finals ( we have % system in our country ), however during the junior and senior years this used to be …

i'm not sure what i wanna major in (deciding between nursing/psychology) so i've been planning on going undecided so i won't have to switch majors, but i'm worried that i'll be hurting my admissions c …

Hi! I am a rising senior in high school who plans to attend a 4-year college after graduation. I am pretty content with my current weighted GPA (3.64285) because I believe I can generally get into mos …