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For Asian males hoping to major in CS, what are some good safety colleges? Seems like CS is impacted everywhere so I have no idea which college will be a good safety.

(specifically pediatric nursing and becoming a Ph.D., I'm also currently a sophomore in high school.

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I am currently a sophomore in high school, and have a question about what math classes I should take for my senior year. Freshman year I took algebra 1, and this year I am current taking geometry, the …

I have had a really bad sophomore year my grades are really really bad right now and I need to get it up my GPA is a 2.0 and it has never been that low before.Any suggestions on how to get that up?I h …

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I am currently a junior in high school. I have a current unweighted cumulative GPA of 3.24. This GPA, when weighted, is 3.41. This current GPA only accounts for my freshman and sophomore year, m …

I have an opportunity to intern (technically Junior social media specialist, but I might ask them to change the title to intern) with a black assemblywoman over the summer. She already lists me as her …

During first semester of this school year, I ended with a bad grade in math and I'm currently trying to boost my math grade for second semester, but it's pretty hard. I'm really worried this will heav …

Hello. I'm a freshman going through a 1/6 life crisis right now. I don't have any specific extracurricular that people can associate me with. I wish I was a dancer, rhythmic gymnast, or reincarnation …

I've always favored more humanities based stuff, but I didn't make my Mock Trial Tryouts :(

I'm a sophomore right now. I'm a black female.

1. Diverisity and Inclusion team (9th - Present) Co-President

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Duke and Princeton are my top 2 schools and I have about the same chances at each (27 and 26 respectively) and I’m not sure which I should apply ED/EA to.

I’m a black female that’s planning to go into …

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I am a 10th grader and is in Algebra 2 Honors currently. I want to take Pre-Calc over the summer and in 11th grade I want to take AP calc AB and then 12th grade my plan is to take AP calc BC. Should I …

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So my new dream school is Dartmouth, and CV says I have a 27% chance of admission. I am thinking about applying early decision to Dartmouth (or Wharton or Duke), and I believe I have very strong ma …

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I'm really struggling with who to ask for my humanities recommendation letter. My issue is that my junior year English teacher who I was planning on asking actually quit at the end of the first …

I know some friends and classmates who got recruited from doing sports and I've also been involved in a sport for many years. By the time I have to do college apps, I'll have over 10 years, and I've …

Is the core GPA or overall GPA used by colleges? This is because my core GPA(93) is way higher than my cumulative GPA(82.4).

I am planning to get this up going into my junior year. Taking a lot of rig …

I am currently a sophomore doing the IGCSE curriculum (outside of the US). I have 2 Cs and a D in math. My GPA is 3.7. My strongest subjects being economics and english. Should I still put more elite …

Am a Nigerian and want to study at your school, but the O'level result am using is National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB) which I want to know before applying for my undergraduate …

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This fall I’ll start my Junior year and I just wanted a bit of insight on my classes I plan to take. (For college I plan to get a degree in something art related but I haven’t decided exactly …