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I'm a junior right now and I'm expecting a final grade of a B in Calculus AB. This is the first B I will have throughout my high school career. I will have 7-8 APs by the time I graduate next year, co …

Hey, very hopeful junior here. I currently live in Asia so I have to go across the continent and there is also the question of them bands💀

But my scores are good so I can hope that based on my financia …

I'm a junior looking into colleges right now, and I was looking at Berkeley and UCLA's freshmen requirements and they state,

"You must complete 15 A-G courses with at least 11 courses finished prior to …

Technically I'm from Atlanta, but I moved to Missouri, but my dad lives in Atlanta and wants me to move there for college, I don't want to stay in Missouri, but I want to go somewhere new like New Yor …

If I get offered a full athletic scholarship to William and Mary, and the coach at Williams College really wants me on their team but can't offer me any scholarships, which college should I go to? Cou …

Hi, I applied to both of these schools this year and was wondering if anyone had any information on what time the decisions come out.

I'm a Junior, and I haven't done any extracurricular clubs or activities in high school. I'm just a shy person, to be honest, and I prefer keeping to myself outside of school. But now, I'm worried tha …

For a bit of background, I am currently a freshman in high school and am in the process of finalizing my courses for the school year of 2021-2022, my sophomore year.

I am planning to take the followin …

I'm really curious

I have always known that there is some influence of ethnicity but I didn’t know it was this much. I am half Caucasian and half Latino but I look very Caucasian. At first I put white in the chancing en …

I'm wondering what makes a strong Extracurricular, because a lot of website list olympiad teams, mathletes, and etc. But my school personally doesn't offer that at all, and It's to late in the year to …

I had a C in Precalculus Honors first marking period, but I was able to pull that up to a low B this marking period. I understand concepts a lot better now, and am projected to end the year with a hig …

I want to go to a university, but I'm scared of the crowd. I stayed in the same school from 2-8th grade, and my 8th-grade class literally had three people total. My first high school was small, and my …

Do pre-college programs help your chances of admission? I feel like if I do a program at one university, then it would look like I'm more interesting in that school. That would hurt my chances of admi …

Hi. I'm currently a sophomore choosing between taking AP Lang, LA III Honors, or AP Lit for next year. I already have 3 AP classes that I am taking outside of this class (AP Calc BC, AP Bio, and APUSH …

how do I change statement for connection to colleges? You know the button that says "connect" and then you write a statement? How do I change my statement?

I was just curious if that decision would maybe sour my appearance to college admissions officers. I decided to drop out of the IB program before my junior year because I thought IB was kinda pointles …

9th going on 10th.

For an example, I don’t have IB or AP classes, there’s no such thing here. Or honors. I added the information the closest I could, using as “Honors” every class I had to apply to participate. My chanc …

So I have 4 'core' extra circulars but then each of them has on average 1 activity that is a subset/branch of that core.

For example I'm a board member with Group X (core). As a board member, I do what …