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My Name is Brooke and I am a Junior Currently. I was wondering how can I boost my Gpa to a 4.0.

Currently my weighed gpa is 3.78 and unweighted at a 3.5 ish. This year I am taking 5 ap's.I am ran …

for the last 3 years leading up to my last year in high school as a senior, I'm still unsure what major I should lean towards. I have a few things in mind but I really want to be sure and confident In …

i'm having trouble looking for schools that HBUC and has the mayors of LAW. it also has to be a school located in new york. please help

Hi! I'm a junior in high school and have a weighted gpa of 3.7. How can I bring that up to 4.0 by the end of the year? I'm taking 2 AP's (APUSH and AP World), 4 honors (chem, human body systems, pre-c …

I know I want to study business in college, but I also may want to incorporate my passion for film into it. USC's BCA major seems like the perfect major for me but it only takes 55 applicants a year. …

Most Ivy League colleges are self-selecting especially if you are an ALDC, recruited athlete, legacy, development candidate, or child of faculty. For hooked applicants like Black, LatinA, Indigenous, …

I’m just curious about how it works and want to get insights from others about it.

I have good stats, but I'm scared I won't get in.

It's hard for me to look at my high school credentials without exploding. I finished with a 2.789 UW GPA (2.862 Weighted) and a 31 composite ACT score (25-Math, 32-Science, 32-Reading, 35-English, 8-W …

My intended major is international affairs and economics. By the time I graduate, I will have 14 ap tests including ap micro/macro econ, psych, lang, lit, and us/comparative gov. However, I am taking …

My intended major is international affairs and economics. By the time I graduate, I will have 14 ap tests including ap micro/macro econ, psych, lang, lit, and us/comparative gov. However, I am taking …

I notice most colleges/Univ look or reference SAT scores in their websites. Does it matter if you take the ACT instead of the SAT. Pros and Cons of each test please from the college/univ perspectiv …

For example, you take spanish 3 junior year, after taking spanish 2 in 8th grade?

If i got my GED what is my gpa average

I am a high school student in the DFW area and I am wondering if there are any good internships related to economics, or how to find good internships.

I’m trying to figure out how to put this well while answering briefly. What would you suggest? I pay for my phone and its service. I buy groceries. I give my grandma money sometimes, but she blows it …

is a 4/16 a good ranking? I moved schools for my senior year so I'm not exactly as high as I would have liked. Is top 25% percentile decent?

also, how do I describe certain activities on common app wit …

Hi! I'm a current junior. I've done taekwondo for nearly ten years now, and I'm a 2nd-degree black belt (some quick searches tell me that around 1% of people in taekwondo earn this degree.) How strong …

I got 1460 on my sat and 4.2 for my gpa so far. I really want to study computer science and engineering. What schools do I have chance with?

My 9th grade marks were-94%

And 10th grade-89.4%

And I don’t have great Extracurriculars but aiming to get into Columbia,Cornell and nyu .

What should I do ? Should I focus on extracurriculars or my mar …