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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 …

So I’m from community college and I spent a year in this community college and I am thinking about transferring to another university like UCLA or UF I never studied high school in US I studied in ano …

I’m interested in pursuing engineering. I understand these programs are competitive and I realize, in comparison to other engineering hopefuls, I don’t stand out on paper (I’ve taken all the STEM AP …

Hi,

Can someone please help me format my extracurricular activity?

I was a legal assistant for this law firm with multiple offices in my country, and I

- took notes on meetings (office & hearings)

- res …

I am an international student, I graduated high school this year but will be applying for the Fall 2023 batch. I have pretty good grades and highly involved in extracurriculars at school ( was the Hea …

I am a freshman at a competitive high school that offers IB curriculum. My plan is to graduate with the IB diploma. But I am considering taking AP physics 1 and AP stats as a self-study course in addi …

I'm a rising sophomore that live in NYC. I heard that it is best to start early but I do not know where to start in terms of extracurriculars or what activities I am passionate about that will help me …

I was filling out the ApplyTexas application for the University of Houston, but when I went to paste my essay, it only had the option for prompt C. I wrote my essay using prompt A. Does University of …

I have taken Harvard's three computer science and one justice course on edX. I have verified certificates for each college course, but I don't know where I can show that I have taken them. This is imp …

Hi there! I'm a rising junior who's just begun to start evaluating my extracurriculars and considering some final additions to my list, and I've started to realize that a lot of my ECs are either dire …

I'm not sure if I should send more than the required number of letters of recommendation to schools that would allow me to send more than one in. Any advice would be appreciated.

I have a 4.1 , 1500 despite that most of the schools that are top 40 are reach schools or hard targets for me. Why should I bother applying to these schools?

Hi everyone,

I go to a very large high school with over 2500 students, so that is around 600+ students per class. I am worried about how this will affect my high school career, my college admissions, …

Hello! I have a question about AP classes. There are no AP classes in our school, students can’t take them. I am going to apply as an international student. How important AP classes are?

My daughter is applying to ~8 school and 7 of them have applications due on 11/1/2022. Syracuse, for some reason, is 1/5/2023. Are there a lot of schools that review this late? My fear is we'll nee …

Does anyone know any good extracurriculars to engage myself in Richmond, Virginia or online. Could the extra curriculars please be related to engineering or aerospace engineering. I am already in FRC …

I make English class every Saturday, but is not relate with school, it will be an extracurricular? Can I request a recommendation letter from this teacher?

I'm a senior that's interested in accounting. I plan to apply to UPenn, CMU, UNC Chapel-Hill, and two other schools.

I'm currently taking Honors Calculus this semester and signed up for AP Calculus AB …

Hi! I'm a current senior applying to colleges right now. Only one of the schools I am applying to requires two letters of rec, so I have asked two teachers (one of them being my debate coach) to write …

Why do I get rejected from every college?

My school is religious but my family is not, and I myself was a believer until less than two years ago. I want to write about how my education shaped me into a better person even though I no longer sh …