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In my country, we use 1-9 grading system. 1 is the best and 9 is the worst grade. This system does relative evaluation.

Grade 1: Top 0-4% (96-100 percentile)

Grade 2: Top 4-11% (89-96 percentile)

Grade 3 …

I am a 9th grade student in India (U.S. citizen)

In U.S. —

- I have volunteered for 120+ hours for an Art Gallery in the U.S. and will also get a LOR for it.

- I got into the honor roll and the distingu …

How many service hours total in your life. Just a goal so I can set my sights to achieve average or above. Or if you have not started would you please state how many hours you plan on getting.

I'm from India. I recently completed my 12th grade. i didn't scored well in my exams (2.7GPA or 81%) so i'll be writting improvement exams for the same.

I was from medical stream and was preparing for …

I want to write an overcoming challenges essay

I want to know if writing about stage fright and inabality to give public speech is a good topic for the essay. I hope it is not too ordinary

Hello everyone! So a little bit about me before I jump into my question. I'm a half Chinese and half Russian American who is super into politics and government.

A college essay asked me about my ident …

CMU-Q is Carneie Mellon University in Qatar campus that provides undergraduate education on the fields of Biological Sciences, Computer Scince, Business Administration and Information Systems.

I'm a senior from Brazil (graduating 12/2021) applying to competitive colleges (Ivy level) due to financial aid.

9th grade - Isn't a part of HS in Brazil. I contacted the schools I'm applying to, and t …

I'm really struggling with ECs right now. I have band listed because I spend a lot of time participating and I've had leadership positions. I also have that I self study Korean and one of my work expe …

I am close to the assistant head of school, he has been my Esports coach for the past two years and the Spring Sing Moderator (which I was on leadership for). From these activities, he knows me pretty …

4.13 gpa and applying to both art schools and general universities.

I'm applying to several schools for EA and while I think my college essay is solid, if I get deferred I would like to either edit it or submit a completely new one. Is this allowed through the common …

Hi! Is it fine to send SAT scores to colleges, even if I decide later to not apply there?

My SAT is in a few days, and I'm on the fence about whether I'm going to apply this year or not, because of the …

Hey y’all! Do college admissions really care about the Silver Congressional Award? In other words, will it help my application?

I want to apply to some of the Honors Colleges provided by the colleges in applying to. Are there pros and cons of being in the Honors College? If so, does one outweigh the other?

I am currently doing A levels in my Country. It is a post-high school program of nine months (I will be completing it in July/August) next year. Please what is the equivalent to it in the US coalition …

I'm a junior that takes two classes at a public school & five independently. My original financial aid was coming from 21st Century Scholar, but now that I'm homeschooled I need another version of tha …

My EA school only accepts one optional teacher recommendation letter, so I have to choose between my math and physics teacher

I'm applying as a chemical and biomolecular engineering major, so I thought …

I made an academic résumé in one of my classes, and the teacher told me to make everything fit on a single page in Google Docs and to not go into too much detail. I found this extremely difficult to d …

I have been looking online, but am unable to find if there is a maximum number of courses colleges will accept AP Credit for.

I am going to be taking around 10 APs in high school. If I were to score a …