Skip to main content

Admissions Advice

Get your questions answered by peers and admissions experts
46
PINNED POST
🎉 First post
7 months ago
Discussion

📣 Community Forum Reopening Announcement 📣

We’re pleased to announce that the Community Forum is now officially open once again.

We appreciate the patience, curiosity, and enthusiasm you’ve shown. Your continued interest and support meant so …

46
9
88
PINNED POST
a year ago
Question

Update: Forum Posting Temporarily Suspended

We wanted to inform you that posting on CollegeVine’s community forum will be temporarily suspended for a few days as we work to mitigate some recent spam posts. While the forum will still be accessib …

88
deleted
40
89
PINNED POST
2 years ago
Question

Recent Changes to Google Settings for Third-Party Apps like CollegeVine

ACTION REQUIRED: Update CollegeVine App Settings in Google Admin by October 23, 2023

For enhanced student data protection, Google is set to limit access for users under 18 to third-party apps like Coll …

89
4
0
🎉 First post
2 years ago
Question

My rank

I am ranked 77 out of 764 students. The college I am hoping to get into auto admits the top 10% but mathematically 77/764 is 10.08%. So i dont know how that factors in and if 76 was the cut off. I kno …

0
0
🎉 First post
2 years ago
Question

Scholarship Question

I have a sat 1540, gpa 4.0. I will apply as an intl student, do I qualify for it?

0
1
1
2 years ago
Question

How Can I Improve My Extracurriculars?

I'm a rising sophomore and I have ten extracurriculars, but they're not as strong as I would like and I wanted to ask if anyone knew how to improve upon them for admissions to a top school.

1. Girl Sc …

1
1
🎉 First post
2 years ago
Question

Scholarships for international students

Does your university offer scholarship to low income international students and if you guys do how much is needed to be apply to get scholarships and how much in scholarships

1
1
2 years ago
Question

How reliable is the free service of World Education Services?

Hii guys! In my country we don't have GPAs in high school. I tried the free service of World Education Services to convert my marks to GPA. How reliable is it? According to them i have a 4.0 /4.0 GPA …

1
1
🎉 First post
2 years ago
Question

What are my chances of getting into the Miami-Dade Honors college?

I have heard the chances of getting into the honors college are slim. I have a pretty hefty academic profile, when it comes to academics and volunteering- outstanding some might say. I just need an un …

1
1
2 years ago
Question

Difference between a 1420 and a 1450 for usc, bc, georgetown

Hi! I am a rising senior and currently have a 1420 superscore on the sat. My goal has always been a 1450 and I will take the August and October SAT's but idk how possible that goal is. So I was wonder …

1
2
🎉 First post
2 years ago
Question

Harvard for architecture with scholarship and the minimum of GPA and SAT and extracurricular what’s your opinion

Hey

I am still grade 10 and I’m the first generation.i need scholarship since I will apply internationally my country doesn’t have AP classes so I have to relay more on my SAT ,GPA and extracurricular …

2
2
🎉 First post
2 years ago
Question

Projects I can take up in school

Hi, I'm going to be applying as an economics major and am looking for some school project ideas.

My friend, a soon to be CS major, recently created a face recognition system for teachers and their att …

2
4
🎉 First post
2 years ago
Question

What makes an extra curricular a strong one and or stronger?

Hi so far into my high school year half of my extra curricular rankings are at 4a (standard) and I’d like to know how I can improve on them or what ones to join that allow me to strengthen my extracur …

4
2
2
2 years ago
Question

Wharton Supplemental Essay prompt 1:

Write a short thank-you note to someone you have not yet thanked and would like to acknowledge. (We encourage you to share this note with that person, if possible, and reflect on the experience!) (150 …

2
3
4
2 years ago
Question

Do I need a lot of extra curriculars?

I have a 3.67 GPA and I'll graduate with 4 AP classes and 15 honors and 4 Duel enrollment but I only have 2 extracurriculars which are BETA club and book club. So will it affect my chances of getting …

4
1
2
2 years ago
Question

Taking 2 physics classes over the summer at a 4 year college… not looking good

I am taking two 7-week long college physics courses that cover a two semester long introductory physics curriculum at a 4-year college and my grades aren’t looking too good.

I am getting B’s, which I r …

2
2
2 years ago
Question

Can I make the pdf file of my transcripts?

My school doesn't record the transcript \ report card of any student. If I tell my school's computer teacher to make a pdf file of my transcript he can't provide it. But when they publish the result o …

2
1
2 years ago
Question

What should I have in the Honors/Awards Section of the College Application?

Are the ones that I currently have considered strong enough for T40? What are some examples of strong Honors/Awards? Is there a place to add Honors/Awards in the CollegeVine Chancing Stimulator? How m …

1
1
1
🎉 First post
2 years ago
Question

Multiple schools

I have studied in multiple schools. 2 years (Fresh and Soph) in Canada and the Junior Year in US. How does the college calculate the cGPA. Do they account only for the Junior year or they will calcula …

1
1
1
🎉 First post
2 years ago
Question

Rate My Sophomore Classes (thank you!)

I want to go to a mid or large sized preferably private college with a 5-25% acceptance rate, would I be on track?

AP Lang

AP World

Advanced Algebra 2/ AP Pre Calc (2 years of math in 1 year)

Chem Honors

S …

1
1
1
2 years ago
Question

AP classes

So I am going into my senior year and so far I have taken 7 AP classes including the ones that I am going to take my senior year. I am really stuck on whether I should take 2 this year which is what I …

1
1
Displaying questions 2101-2120 of 11800 total
 

Join the conversation

Ask a question
Start a discussion
See how your peers are thinking about college admissions.
Reply to a post
Help other students and share your experiences.

How karma works

Community Guidelines

To keep this community safe and supportive:

  1. Be kind and respectful!
  2. Keep posts relevant to college admissions and high school.
  3. Don’t ask “chance-me” questions. Use CollegeVine’s chancing instead!