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I am a rising senior and I am interested in multiple majors but I do not know which one is the right fit for me. How do I decide on which major to choose and which one to go into? I really need to fig …

I was wondering if any of you know of any competitions or opportunities either online in person that I could do and put on my application. Particularly in the biology, chem, math fields. Things like t …

I am currently involved in six extracurriculars in my sophomore year. I want to major in journalism so I am focusing on writing. I want to know good extracurriculars that are accessible anywhere consi …

I'm the parent of a rising junior. She has a strong profile, but is looking at highly competitive schools. There are a number of consultants out there and it seems to me they typically offer services …

I am a rising junior and only need 30 more credits to graduate high school. I currently have 227 credits on my transcript. During my 9 and 10th grade years, I was involved in a JROTC style class and w …

I have just passed my tenth grade. I got 89 percent in it. And i want to pursue computer and science engineering in top elite universities of the world like mit, stanford, Cornell etc. So how should I …

I’m now a highschool senior and after about a month of searching for my top 3 schools I narrowed it down. My first choice is UF (University of Florida), Second is UM (University of Miami), and Third i …

Hi!! I need some help decided my major/minor for college.

I'm not 100% sure on what I want to do as a career, but I'm leaning towards becoming a college professor. However, I would love to study law a …

The question may be unclear, but I just wanted to ask if Universities check grades differently for each high school and their rigor.

For my freshman to sophomore years, I attended a school where it wa …

I really want to take AP Classes, however, the ones I want to take are not offered in the school.

Is it worth taking AP Exams without taking the actual course? Or should I just not take any.

Currently …

I’m a rising senior working on my common app, and I’m not entirely sure where to put this achievement on my application (potentially as an activity or award or honor) Sorry if this is kinda confusing …

Does anyone have a suggested timeline of when to get stuff done for college applications? I will be applying to about 4 schools during the early period and 10 during the regular period, and almost all …

Where do pre-IB classes fall under? And for both Junior and senior year does an IB class count as one each year (such as taking HL English for Junior/ Senior year) or is it considered just one class o …

I didn’t face any challenges in the past, but I want to write an essay that can impress the admission officers. Do you have any advices to do that? Thank you.

I am an International student taking the A-levels in a non-elite school which does not hold much big of a recognition. Would this really affect my chances at an ivy institute? Because I do have good g …

Hi! I'm a rising senior (class of 2021 yay!) and today, I decided to use CB's tuition calculator to see how much it would cost to go to the top colleges on my list. My family isn't wealthy but we're n …

if my school does not offer ap classes then??

I always score in the mid to high 1400s on Princeton review practice tests but these tests seem harder than the sat. Do you think this means I will score above 1500 on the actual test?

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I just completed my first day of school and I have one course that is already kind of worrying me. My IB History of Americas course already has a 2200 word IA paper due. To be honest the work is fi …

I am planning on becoming a lawyer and I heard political science is a good major to help with my LSAT but I also heard that there aren't many job prospects with a political science major outside of la …