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Hi my name is haris. I am a senior in Natomas higj school. We are going to apply for college next month. I want to ask should I apply in American river college which is community college or Sacramant …

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I am currently taking classes at my high school which are considered AP Weighted but are not actual CollegeBoard AP classes. Would these classes still be considered AP on CollegeVine and/or on CommonA …

Do test-blind universities still consider SAT/ACT scores for scholarships?

Ok, let's say I committed to a college after May 1 and declined all others. Now July/August comes and I get my housing assignment, and that didn't match my preferences.

Sure, I'm not legally obligated …

I’m a freshman in high school, and I was considering job shadowing or having an internship the summer before my sophomore year. However, I am considering jobs related to working with other countries l …

Hello. Does anyone know what are good Digital Sat practice resources except for Bluebook, Khan Academy, and Princeton Review books? Thank you.

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I'm a student from Germany and am planning to apply to US Colleges/Universities in 2024. Do you have any recommendations regarding how to apply, maybe an appliance guide or how to increase you …

Basically the title, I haven't taken any language classes in high school yet but did in middle school. I'm also already fluent in another language (Japanese) because I studied outside of school, and I …

I feel like one of the things that the CollegeVine Calculator doesn't take into account is the restrictions of AP. Say my school has 15 AP classes and you can only take 1 in secondary 1, 2 and seconda …

Does doing only my senior year in the States make or break my Ivy application? (It doesn't have to make it but will it have a positive effect, My ecs and awards are good )

1. Robotics; teacher assistant (11,12) my team captain (11,12). At my school.

Constructed, programmed, and designed robots. Participated in prestigious competitions like FIRST Global, and Millennium, a …

I know that legally colleges can't force me to come there even if I accept their offer and deposit. But to my knowledge, it's only possible to commit to one college after May 1, as otherwise it'd be d …

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I started a nonprofit almost a year ago and have raised about 50k since then. However, I worry if this is not as impressive to competitive colleges like Havard, CMU, UPENN, Northwestern, etc.

Is …

Hi! I just took the SAT today (August 26th) and I was wondering when I should expect to get my score back.

This is one of my top schools at the moment but I'm very serious about how good the courses are.

I have an unweighted gpa of 3.86

Took five ap classes during high school including:

AP psyc:5

AP lit and comp:4

AP CSA: 5

AP USA History: 4

AP Gov: 5

with two more tests/ exams that I did not take classes fo …

I'm planning to apply to "Information Systems" at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and my SAT score is 1520 (EBRW-770 and Math-750). Based on the latest common data set for CMU, SAT 25, 50 & 75% are 1 …

I have an unweighted gpa of 3.86

Took five ap classes during high school including:

AP psyc:5

AP lit and comp:4

AP CSA: 5

AP USA History: 4

AP Gov: 5

with two more tests/ exams that I did not take classes fo …

Hello! I was wondering, if my grades were not the best during the pandemic, (my freshman and sophomore year) do schools take that into consideration? Ever since getting back to in school learning, I h …