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Hi!

So last year I took a class with JHU's CTY and I got an A-, and I don't want universities to see the grade. Are CTY transcripts automatically sent to colleges? If so, how can I prevent that?

Thanks!

Made a previous post about the situation. I was accepted at all 3 colleges I applied to but have committed to Bradley University as a business major.

I currently have a D in my Civics class which is r …

I was wondering which is most important factor for college admissons: extracurriculars, GPA, AP scores, or SAT/ACT score.

A little about me: I am a sophomore, I took AP HUG last year, got a 5, haven't …

I currently have a 1.6 GPA and im in my second semester of junior year. These past years have been rough on me and I didn’t care about school. I failed a lot of my classes because of my lack of dedica …

I am currently a sophomore and I know the importance of summer activities to bolster college applications. However, my parents have their sabbatical this summer so I'm going to be in Europe for six we …

Hi! My current CV chances at UVA are 54% and I am also a legacy.

My science path is like this: Honors bio -> honors chemistry -> ib bio hl1 -> ib bio hl2

I am applying for an economics major, and I cann …

I need some templates to help with my college admission essay. can anyone give me some, possibly a link? I'm a junior I want to start gathering ideas for my essay so ill be more prepared in my senior …

I am currently in 9th grade planning to launch a Robotics club in my school before my junior year at last. I have known that beginners can learn C and C++. I have also researched about the Arduino boa …

I live in the Chicagoland area, and I'm a HS junior. I'm projected to have taken a total of 6 AP classes out of 22 offered (HuG, World, Chem, Calc BC, Macro, Physics 1), 10 Honors classes, and 3 commu …

At my school, AP Computer Science A has a prerequisite class. I'm a Junior planning my classes for next year and am wondering if it would be worthwhile to take that prerequisite class my senior year, …

I am in 10th grade and want to do something worthwhile during the summer and was looking to see if there are any internships. I am fine with paid or non - paid and any field is good with me too.

In the future, I hope to be a lawyer. I would like to be able to go to a prestigious college that will lead me to the path of success, but I'm not sure how to spike when my high school doesn't have a …

I'm having a problem with choosing to go to a program school in my area over my public school. Going to my public school has more benefits and is easier because of what my major in college is leaning …

I am an Ethiopian-American student in my freshmen year of high school. In my household, we speak Amharic, and this language is actually the first language I’ve learned.

However, I’ve heard and read a l …

My name is Keirah and I'd want to introduce myself. I am a sophomore in high school and enrolled in VoTech, a health science program. My goal is to work as a traveling anesthesiologist. Anyway, in my …

Hey guys! I am so thankful to all of you for your help. I posted the previous question yesterday and received the answer soon after. Thank you again. I just wanted to know how sure should I be about t …

I'm currently an 8th grader, and while I was getting a general idea of what courses I would enroll in high schools, I realized that in some subjects, only one or two years were required, and in the ca …

Yesterday the CA Supreme Court issued a "STAY" on the UC Berkeley lawsuit to hold total enrollment at 2020 levels (42347). This implies that UCB must reduce freshman enrollment by 2500 from current le …

I’ve volunteered at the library (20 hours), at an oncology clinic (37), and at my church (30-40 hours over about 3 years).

I know all of these are okay but I’m pretty sure colleges want to see that I w …

I am planning to apply for Columbia university early decision later this year and was wondering what I could do to spruce up my resume. I have over 400 hours of community service at a hospital and hos …