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Because the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions on June 29th, we recently updated our chancing algorithm so that the impact of your ethnicity is greatly reduced. As a result, your chan …

I was skimming through my college vine chancing just now, and I'm a bit confused. When I go to "my list" and view all of my schools in a list form, my odds of getting accepted are higher. However, whe …

Hi! I'm an international student from S.Korea.

I wonder 1 week tour can be a "live". There's "Number of years you have lived in the United States", should I choose 1 year or less, or 0?

And, in the appl …

Hi guys, I have a question about how scholarships work. What's the process of getting a scholarship? Do you just have to fill out the common application to your university and then they'll tell you wh …

Hi, hope you’re doing well.

So I am based in London, UK. Studying psychology bachelors degree as a 1st yr student. My career plan is to become a Neurosurgeon. I am currently 20 and will finish my bach …

Hello! I'm an international student from S.Korea.

I have an one year elder who applied US universities via Common App. Teachers who helped him to apply told me that my counselor should report GPA using …

I just graduated from high school.

I have made dozens of programs for last 2 years. I want to write this in Common App "Activities." Do I have to combine all of programmings into just one activity and describe "made a lot of programs" …

I've been looking at colleges for a long time since 6th (i also have a 3.0 gpa is that good?)

This is probably a silly question, but does having a B on my transcript and not being in the highest math level significantly impact my chances for admission? (Particularly in comparison with my schoo …

It would be a good idea to contact the common app account that applied for fall 2021 and delete that, and create a new one for fall 2022? Is that a problem as the CAID will be different?

What are everyones thoughts on the May/Nov 2021 grade boundaries for IB, do you guys reckon November 2021 will be as low at May 2021 or not?

Some boundaries were lowered by like 10%, do you think this …

I (10th grade) go to a small classical private school and there is no club activities offered, and no chance of making one. There are eleven high-schoolers and no ap classes available. I'm aiming for …

( 10 grade) I didn't do anything in my freshman year of high-school, so I am taking AP courses this year. My school is a small classical school that isn't recognized by the College board; I was wander …

In my college application, as an international student I was asked only once if I was to apply for financial aid. I said yes. Is that it? Don't I have to submit any form or anything?

I'm approaching the final revisions of my Common App Essay, and I've realized that my essay sorta fits some of the prompts, but I didn't write it specifically for those prompts so nothing is specifica …

Hello everyone!

International student here. I will be applying to US universities with expected grades. A little bit of background. I am doing A levels and you can sit in your A level exams in two sess …

-senior in high school

-safeties in particular are Iowa University and CU Boulder

I have a friend of mine who I found out got a full-tuition ride to two schools. I coincidentally applied to the same schools, but only got 1/2 tuition. I know for a fact that I have a higher rank and …

Hello, I need advice.

I submit my college essay and there was an accidental punctuation error such as this:

" .?I realized my voice was essential.."

All of my other sentences were grammatically correct, …

I was doing some reseach b/c I was thinking about getting my mba and I shocked to find that some online grade courses are more expensive than traditional graduate class in the classroom.

I would think …