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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 …

I completed my freshman year in high school outside the US. How would I submit a official copy of my transcript since I have no contact with the school? I do have copies signed by a school official th …

I have 2 gold medals from the International Taekwondo Festival back in elementary. Should I list these in the honors section/resume or leave them out?

Hello! I recently started high school and am trying to keep my grades up. I have tried to be participatory, and I do one sport that I am quite advanced in. I would appreciate if you could help me unde …

On school profile document, my school's SAT average is 1180 (580 Math, 600 Verbal) & 2/3 of students are low income

I have a 1400 (680 R, 720 M).

I am looking to apply to colleges like Harvard, Duke, B …

Hi there! Bare with me throughout this whole post, I am probably going to write quite a bit. I'm a sophomore in high school, 15 years old female and I live in Texas. I am Asian and come from a fairly …

I am a freshman in highschool living in north New Jersey. If anyone knows any law internships or programs i can apply to soon please reply to my comment. Thank you so much!

Hi! I'm a Sophomore in Florida (currently doing school online) looking for potential extracurricular ideas. For some background, during my freshman year I was an intern for my counties' public library …

I am applying as a transfer student to Vanderbilt, and Vanderbilt is test-optional. I got a 32 composite score on the ACT, and I am wondering if I should submit this score to help my application. I am …

When colleges look at your application what are the main things they look it or what guidelines are they looking for.

I'm a junior, so this is the year that I'm really thinking about colleges. I have a 3.97 unweighted GPA, have completed 3 APs and many honors classes, and, while I have yet to take the official ACT, m …

About six months ago I was admitted to USC as a spring admit with half-tuition National Merit Scholarship. I am currently doing GE courses at a community college, preparing to move in to LA this comin …

I'm a sophomore in high school, with a current GPA of 3.9. I do pretty well in school, having mostly high A's or low A's. I don't want this to be a chance-me question, but is there anyone who could te …

So I hear the term EC spike but I’m a little confused on it. Does a like have to be released to a specific area or field like a writing spike where I run a blog I have a writing club and I win some aw …

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Hi! I’m graduating my junior year of high school because I already know what I want to do which is become a nurse and during my senior year I would only be taking two classes. I plan on going to the c …

Hey guys, so I requested for my transcripts and SATs to be send a little over a week ago but my colleges have still not recived them. I am really worried as I feel like they wont get it in time for me …

Tenured and untouchable math prof. Michael Thaddeus did make a valid point that some of the data Columbia submitted didn't align with the 2 areas of the ranking worth 11% which is 1.) Percent full-tim …

I got 2 Cs my junior year, which significantly brought down my unweighted GPA, but I still really want to a good college. I know I'm smart, and I know I'll do well wherever I go, but I still really wa …

I've been hearing that you need to be a well-rounded student instead of a person good with a few things. However, for those elite colleges like Duke and Vanderbilt, and Yale, colleges like to see you …