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I am currently a sophomore and is on a pre-med track. id like to be a bio or chem major but I haven't fully decided yet. Please help !!

Hello! My dream is to go to any ivy league school. I’ve used admissions calculators, and UPenn comes at about 55%chance for me. But Harvard only3%. What can I do to increase chances to speak to colleg …

I recently applied and was accepted to MIT's Weekend Immersion in Science and Engineering (WISE) program, which basically flies ~100 people out to tour labs and lectures at MIT for a weekend. MIT does …

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I’ve just got so much different info abt both Barnard and NYU’s average SAT. So I was wondering if it’d be a good idea to submit a 1480 to NYU or Barnard (760 rw 720 math). Majoring in poli sci. A …

I'm an international student and my school doesn't offer AP art. In fact, none of the schools around me offer AP art either. Can't I just submit my portfolio by myself? Or is that not possible?? Do I …

Hi, I‘m an international student transferring to an American high school for my senior year. I didn’t do many extracurricular actitivites in my home country except for sports and DoE (Duke of Edinburg …

So basically I am from India , teachers here are not very cooperative when it comes to recommendation letters or any other help . But LOR is very important part of admission what do I do ?

I'm an international student applying from Bangladesh this year. Recently the country went through a political upheaval where a 15 year dictatorship was uprooted by a student led rebellion. I was at t …

I got a 22,000 renewable scholarship from Arcadia. I was just wondering these things:

1) how did they find me? Did they choose me based on the information on my Collegevine profile?

2) I didn't apply fo …

Hi, I am a rising senior and intend to apply as a business major for college. However, my math grades don’t look pretty great. Except for 9th grade both 10th and 11th are in Bs. My college counselor a …

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I'm a senior in high school looking for public university or community college recommendations. I plan to major in psychology and get a bachelors degree. I have a 3.9 GPA and a 20 ACT score. I res …

I'm a little skeptical as to how the AI algorithm works. I've lately received a few AI recruiters on this site and they say things like "your ECs and academics are really good" or something along thos …

Last year I got an 1120 on my SAT, which isn't bad but it isn't great either. I'm applying to a handful of colleges where my SAT is below average of those accepted (around or above a 1300). I'm going …

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I recently logged onto CollegeVine after a month or so of not using it and I noticed my chances at top schools increased greatly without me chan …

I already have my arts credit, I do not need the class to graduate and I am not majoring in art. All my courses are Honors or AP, I am not taking easy classes as a senior. The two reasons I am droppin …

I'm going to be a sophomore in high school, and my schedule just came up; it turns out that orchestra conflicts with my AP Chem class. So, this year, I have to take on or the other. I am the Concertma …

Hey! So I want to go to a California state school, however from what I have seen online, since I am not physically living in California, but in Europe, I would not be able to have residency tuition pr …

I am a rising sophomore. In the summer of 2023, I moved from India to the US. I plan to major in Mechanical Engineering. The College admissions are way different than I expected but, I got some unders …

If I currently have a 3.6 unweighted GPA, is it realistic to raise it to a 3.9 before early admissions? I'm really stressed because I'm not used to being less than an A-B student, but I completely flu …

I'm trying to strengthen my ECs by joining high school enrichment programs. Is there any program like YYGS that similarly offers full financial aid for international students?