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While calculating my chances, I realized that almost all my activities are tier 2 ones, with a few tier 3. I think I strongly need a tier 1 activity but don't know how to get there. And yes, I'm runni …

Though some universities don't ask for this conversion, I just wanna see how I stack up against the others competing for a place at my dream colleges. Thank you!

If I were to make a charity for the country I’m from to help them build better roads and have better access to medical supplies etc would that be good on my college application for a bs md program?

I've heard from a lot of people that Stanford is looking for people who are extremely good at one or two things, rather than those who are average in multiple things. So how do I pick that one thing i …

What I want to mean is, I know that each College have your especific Essay to make but, which Essay is required to every single college except the supplemental Essays and the Common Application Essays …

Hey! I have applied for a research programme at Horizon Academic And I have an interview today. Is it reliable? Would it be a great addition to my application? How much importance would it hold on my …

or just put 3 recommendations combined?

I am stuck on UMICH's first essay prompt about being a part of a community. I couldn't think of any until I thought of my own Indian American roots and conflicts. But upon further searching, it seems …

or just put 3 recommendations combined?

or just put 3 recommendations combined?

I'll be starting my senior year soon and I'm graduating June 2022 so I was wondering when would be the best time to apply to receive feedback in time to prepare for fall 2022?

I messed up pretty bad my first two years of high school. About 3 years ago, I moved and things started to go south for me educationally. I started vaping and skipping classes and because of that my o …

Hi,

I am majoring in Biology and I’m doing college searching. I know for example a school like Stony Brook has a lot of its students in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, but what if I applied to a sc …

I am a freshman in my school's engineering program. I am trying to consider my options for schools within and outside of my state.

I want to go into Business.

AP World History 4

AP US History 2

AP Microeconomics 2

AP Macroeconomics 3

I feel like I should just list APWH and Macro but want to ask for advice.

Just an example, I am writing my Cornell supplemental essay (and I'm applying to the arts and sciences school) and I wrote a lot about the development of my academic interests in pretty chronological …

Senior in high school

Context: I am a senior. I took 3 AP classes (BIO, US History, and CSA) in Junior year, and I am taking 4 (U.S. GOV, STATS, CHEM, and Physics) in senior year. My school offers AP classes to Junior and …

Recently, I've been filling out net price calculators to find out if the colleges I'm looking at are affordable. When I was trying to fill out Princeton's, I noticed that in order to apply with only t …

UPenn is my top choice right now as it has the best business program and I am planning to apply there ED. My current stats (as of the end of junior year) are: 3.8 UW, 4.6 W GPA 33 ACT and lots of extr …