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I'm a high school freshman, that has a dream to be a primary care sports medicine physician. I plan on going to The Ohio State University,however i'm not exactly sure what I should major in to achieve …

I hate seeing my points wasted and my time wasted as I finish waiting for a essay review but only getting comments like "good transition" and "good word" in five different ways is annoying and frustra …

I need some help and tips for the summer programs applications...Is there an expert who can be my private advisor for that?

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I am a Tunisian student , and i have a really good gpa(4,31) and I want to study film making in the US with a scholarship, so what is the college that I can get in

I'm am writing a letter of continued interest for a school I got deferred from. Can I get it reviewed on CollegeVine? And what kind of essay would it fall under?

Deferred from Georgia Tech EA2 (Major: electrical and computer engineering).

I have an activity I've done since but it doesn't relate to my major (I got a volunteer training role with the Eliza Orlins …

How can I improve my GPA? My career GPA (don’t know what that’s for even) is 2.9777 and my unweighted GPA is 2.5777 how can I improve those? I am in 10th grade and want to if at all possible get a 3. …

I'm planning on taking Pre-Calc + AP Statistics in 10th grade and Calculus in 11th grade. That would put me at 3 years of math but 5 high school courses completed. (Geo, Alg 2, Pre-Calc, Calc, Ap Stat …

Hi! I'm a junior and will be taking the SAT this spring. I received a score of 1260 on the PSAT I took in the fall, which doesn't put my projected score as high as I'd like it to be. I was wondering i …

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This Friday, my school starts scheduling for our junior year. I am planning on taking ap bio, gov, and lang, Spanish 3, pre-calc, and a tech credit. I want to apply as a psychology major to fairly …

Hi, I’m currently a junior in high and I’m leaning towards biology, specifically medicine. Can someone recommend colleges that are prestigious but aren’t Ivys and have a good bio program?

I'm a student from Tunisia and i plan to study film making in the USA , especially harvard , so is it possible ?

Basically, can submitting stuff like a writing portfolio, awards, and even the language section in the common app can tip an admissions decisions? Can doing every essay the school throws at you do muc …

Hi, I'm a freshman and I'm leaning towards civil engineering. Are there any good colleges that aren't Ivy's that guarantee me success in the field that isn't on collegevine? They added more colleges i …

I've been on and off studying for the SAT for the past couple of months, I've only taken the PSAT once (this year) and I got a 1200. I took a few practice tests on Khan, my best score being a 1330, I …

I am in 10th grade public high school, i have a career GPA of 2.9777 and a unweighted GPA of 2.5777.

I'm a junior in high school, and want to study Bioinformatics/Computational Biology in college. I want to take AP Psychology, but I don't have the space in my schedule to do it. I heard that colleges …

I never took economics in my school since there was no option to take that subject if I studied science. I could take that if I switched to humanities. But I have statistics in my course; I was wonder …

hi,i am a eight grader,about to be a freshman.We are doing course selections and my mom doesnt want me to do dance in school (because they do poms and are basically cheerleaders and idk why she doesnt …