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Hello- I am a 9th grader starting to plan out my courses to best prepare to apply to universities such as UCLA, UCSD, Berkeley. I participate in three sports and am involved in several volunteering a …

Hi! I am a high school senior intending to major in general biology. I have known that I wanted to major in biology since before high school and have demonstrated that interest significantly in the ac …

I am a 12th grade in a scientific school type and this year I want to try to go to MIT.

Do you think extending test-optional policies will keep application volumes at record highs? Do you think that COVID-19 variants will indefinitely influence college admissions requirements? Do you thi …

I am a 9th grader ( Freshman) I want to apply to AIC ( American International College ) with my gpa a 3.1 my admission chances aren't bad but my courses i need to take i have no idea of which to take …

I live in Ethiopia.I am grade 12 student.and I want to get full schoolar ship to one of top universities.i want to definitely study medicine.even though I have potential I don't know how.so I want to …

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I was beginning to list my activities on the common app but had a few questions. How should I describe DECA, and should I just copy and paste that for BPA since it was basically the same thing? A …

I’m a junior looking to get into a BS/MD program and I was wondering what math route for me is better. Should I take a college dual enrollment math class that is college algebra and trig or should I j …

I'm going into my junior year of high school this year and I was wondering if I should wait to get recommendations or start now. I have a fairly high GPA and am looking to major in either mechanical o …

My SAT score is decent and would help with admissions but my ACT is lackluster and since I want to study music I don’t think it’d be that necessary to mention anyways. Thanks for the help.

I have just lost a great extracurricular opportunity with a 4000 dollars scholarship (global citizen year) due to a major miscommunication between the admissions office and I. I have done everything I …

My first semester of high school (last year), I did really poor. My second semester was good, but I'm worried that I'm going to fall back into my old habits. Does anyone have tips on how to stay motiv …

i have my own game how much will it affect my application (international student)???????

In my country, Dominican Republic, we don't have AP classes but we have AP exams center. How can I log in College Board for taking the exam? How many costs to take the exam? Is really important for m …

Hey so I'am a Senior in High school So far I'm currently taking difficult classes like Ap Chemistry, AP Calc AB,AP Lit, AP Capstone and U.S History.

I know Brown University would look into that and see …

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I am in the process of adding my recommenders to my commonapp, but I ran into a snag. At the beginning of summer, I asked my junior year english teacher if he could write my rec letter because I …

I am an Indian student who is looking forward to applying to the U.S. this year for further studies. Due to coronavirus, my school is not offering transcripts to ensure unbiased behaviour and only pro …

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approx 1 million students give ntse each year and I was ranked 52 (only 1000 students get selected from India andi was among them ).

it is conducted by govt of India

and I was ranked 86 on my kvpy te …

For the benefit of the younger CV members, I think it would be very useful to share whether you are planning to submit test scores this application cycle.

I think this poll will help other members und …