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I'm a fairly new College counselor and I'm learning how to fill out a mid year report on common app. When it asks to list the starting and ending dates, which dates do I put? The dates from which the …

I'm sri lankan girl. I want to know why was me selected this because I can't believe.

I go to a public school with 980 students in my grade. A new school counselor was hired this year to advise approximately 500 students. I only met her for the first time during my first of 2 20-minu …

Hey y'all, I felt the urge to reach out to other Bowdoin EDII applicants after the decisions date got moved up to this Friday. How are you guys feeling??

USC deferred basically every single person who applied for early action this year. I wanted to ask if I still had any chance of being admitted or if should I look at attending another school I've alre …

Since I currently live in a country which is not the United States is it possible to take honour classes? And if not would that affect the desition taking from the university?

I was waitlisted from UNC-Chapel Hill OOS last Friday. Would a thoughtful letter of continued interest help increase my chances of getting off the waitlist? If so, under which category should I upload …

I'm currently a junior and my estimated gpa at the end of this year is exactly a 3.7 unweighted. I obviously don't know my weighted gpa because I don't know what I'll score on my AP tests, but I'm gue …

Hello, so I am currently a senior in high school with a 2.5 (2.6 weighted) Cumulative GPA.

From trimester one to trimester two I managed to raise my cumulative gpa from 2.4 to 2.6

I was wondering if …

im currently a sophomore.

my school is built weird and basically i have a total of 16 classes (from 9th and 10th combined) that are equivalent to honors courses. so technically, I have 16 honors cours …

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I am currently a sophomore in HS. I take all honors and AP classes and my weighted GPA is above 4.0. I want to go into nursing, more specifically anesthetics. I also do Track and XC in the Fall/Sp …

I am a current sophomore and here are my “stats”

📈GPA: 3.8 (from freshman year) unweighted

🏃‍♀️SPORTS: Varsity cross country and track and field in the winger and spring

♻️Volunteering: I have 2 hours a …

I'm a prospective international student and want to frame my tertiary studies towards gaining employment in the tech sector after university.

I'm currently in Algebra 2 honors as a Sophomore and I am sometimes struggling to get by with a B. I started the year string with an A but got a 70 on the midterm and I'm really starting to struggle w …

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I was just deffered from my #2 school (Northeastern) (until today I had only heard from my safeties) and I continued interest as a regular decision applicant, but I'm worried because I did get a g …

In my country university selection is done through Advanced level exam results. Can I apply using those results or should I do SAT when applying to U.S. universities? Also what should I do about GPA?( …

I checked my chances on getting into my dream school and they said that my course load is below average. What should I do?

Hey everyone! I’m a current junior and I know this is definitely very early to be wondering about this but I was considering applying to a lot of schools and would love to get some of my applications …

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I finally figured out what college I would like to apply to and even go to but I have made a couple of mistakes as I haven't listed all my colleges on the application and there is not one I can …

All 5s in APs, straight As and with rigorous extracurriculars/leadership.