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Because the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions on June 29th, we recently updated our chancing algorithm so that the impact of your ethnicity is greatly reduced. As a result, your chan …

Hi! I'm a Sophomore in Florida (currently doing school online) looking for potential extracurricular ideas. For some background, during my freshman year I was an intern for my counties' public library …

I am applying as a transfer student to Vanderbilt, and Vanderbilt is test-optional. I got a 32 composite score on the ACT, and I am wondering if I should submit this score to help my application. I am …

When colleges look at your application what are the main things they look it or what guidelines are they looking for.

I'm a junior, so this is the year that I'm really thinking about colleges. I have a 3.97 unweighted GPA, have completed 3 APs and many honors classes, and, while I have yet to take the official ACT, m …

About six months ago I was admitted to USC as a spring admit with half-tuition National Merit Scholarship. I am currently doing GE courses at a community college, preparing to move in to LA this comin …

I'm a sophomore in high school, with a current GPA of 3.9. I do pretty well in school, having mostly high A's or low A's. I don't want this to be a chance-me question, but is there anyone who could te …

So I hear the term EC spike but I’m a little confused on it. Does a like have to be released to a specific area or field like a writing spike where I run a blog I have a writing club and I win some aw …

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Hi! I’m graduating my junior year of high school because I already know what I want to do which is become a nurse and during my senior year I would only be taking two classes. I plan on going to the c …

Hey guys, so I requested for my transcripts and SATs to be send a little over a week ago but my colleges have still not recived them. I am really worried as I feel like they wont get it in time for me …

Tenured and untouchable math prof. Michael Thaddeus did make a valid point that some of the data Columbia submitted didn't align with the 2 areas of the ranking worth 11% which is 1.) Percent full-tim …

I got 2 Cs my junior year, which significantly brought down my unweighted GPA, but I still really want to a good college. I know I'm smart, and I know I'll do well wherever I go, but I still really wa …

I've been hearing that you need to be a well-rounded student instead of a person good with a few things. However, for those elite colleges like Duke and Vanderbilt, and Yale, colleges like to see you …

I have a before-school class and an after-school class. They are Orchestra and Drama respectively. I spend time weekly practicing violin for Orchestra and I'm assistant concertmaster (2nd chair 1st vi …

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I am interested in majoring in psychology and environmental science. However, I am interested in majoring in environmental science. Would it be fine if I write about psychology if I am not going to be …

I'm at Junior at the moment and I've been thinking about college for a long time. I have a completed school list and already know which college I want to go to. I have two options for majors that I mi …

Hello everyone! I am a senior in high school, meaning I have to do my college apps!

I’m really stressed though, mainly because I’ve started having doubts about my choice in major. I’ve been completely …

I am a non-US citizen; I am not attending a school in the US. I am an intn'l student attending a school outside the USA. I don't know if I can apply to the Quest Bridge application; they send many mes …

Just a poll to see how many hours you guys have; side note to all the seniors: Best of luck with your applications!!!

Also if you guys have like one place where you get 100+ volunteer hours (online or …