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I am a rising junior and am wondering what ECs I can do over the summer or even in the fall to boost my college apps. I am interested in Business/Finance.

These D's were in AP classes so I'm scared of the fact that colleges might quickly reject me

I am an international student from Brazil trying to apply with Common App.

The problem is: while applying, the site asks for "Course level" (something that I don't know how to put my classes in.) Wha …

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I'm having a REALLY hard time choosing my senior-year math classes. I just took AP Calc AB for my junior year, and I originally signed up for AP Stats for my senior year since it's not as rigorous as …

What can I do to make my applications stand out? I have the grades but that’s really it. Please help me I’m kinda freaking out😂

I'm a rising junior,

and during the summer or junior year, I was thinking of doing comp science(ai, robotics), biotech, or astronomy-related research and my local universities. I checked and they curr …

I’m a rising senior and I’m looking for test optional colleges just in case I didn’t make a higher score. I have took twice of PSAT in my sophomore and junior year but I’m scared to take the actual SA …

I'm an international student from Chile, and I have a 4.0 GPA, but my school doesn't offer any AP or honors classes. Does this affect me in a negative way? I want to apply test optional

If I start an activity between my 9th and 10th grade, can I write that down as a 9th grade activity on my college app since I haven't started 10th yet?

So I noticed on social media that all the kids applying to ivys (and getting accepted) have these crazy extracurriculars like multiple national level competitions they participated in. Some started th …

Hello! I'm a rising senior, and I'm interested in the biomedical field. I want to major in Genetics, but not many colleges offer that. What are some majors that are similar to genetics that I could ap …

Hi, I am wondering if I have a chance of being accepted to SCU with my SAT score of 1370 (610 in reading and writing, and 760 in math) and a UW GPA of 3.7. I have a variety of extracurricular activiti …

Do the college short essay prompts for Common App change every year for each college? I noticed that for colleges such as Stanford have multiple essay prompts. Is it required to answer all of them and …

Hi, I was curious on if you have a wrestling program and how hard it would be to get in?

The customer service people aren’t helping so i need another way to apply

Hello. i was advised to drop a prereq class because my professor was having technical issues with receiving my submitted assignments. The professor was a tough grader, and he was very difficult to und …

So I play football and I pretty much am involved it for most of the year. Some weeks I don't do as much with football and some weeks I do more with football. So should I just calculate the rough estim …

My request to connect with one of the colleges I am considering was accepted, but I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to start the conversation with their Admissions Director. Any advice is …

Is there any way I can raise my GPA from a 3.81 to a 4.03 in one year? I’m going to be a senior and I’m currently taking 2 summer classes that are dual credit. I plan on taking more classes for colleg …