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Does anyone have unique aspects of NYU that are little-known? I find it difficult to try 'why us' essays for a school so popular like NYU, in a city everyone wants to live in. Maybe specific labs (I'm …

As an International student ( Indian) , in our country we don't have the exams like SAT and ACT , it is something westerner . In our country we have the admission Exams like JEE , NEET , CET , GATE et …

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I am currently a sophomore in high school with an undecided career path, so I was wondering if anyone could identify a spike/possible major (if there is one) within my extracurriculars (most are …

Hi! I am a current junior, and we have started scheduling for senior year classes at my school. My dream school is UMich, and I want to major in a pre-med (science or psychology) major. I also want to …

Please note I use the term Ivy loosely here, referring to any prestigious schools with high tuition. I, a junior, believe I will have a decent chance of getting into some of these schools by the end o …

My school doesn’t show term grades on our transcript and doesnt grade with A-, A+, B- and so on. IT is just a straightforward A,B,C,D and so on. What my school does is average the grade we got in both …

I would to ask if it’s a good idea to form my why us as a day in my life at this college. Basically I formed it as if it was my schedule

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I am currently a Sophomore who has tried many activities in various subjects, but have not found a career path I am particularly passionate about. People always tell me I will find what I like e …

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So last year I took AP Macro with Johns Hopkins CTY and I got an A-. I want to major in econ and I got a 5 on the AP Macro exam, but would sending the A- to colleges lower my chances of acceptan …

I have applied at Harvard University but unfortunately got deffered from the REA pool.After that I have submitted my application at Johns Hopkins University.But there is an option for ED2.They send me …

What is college App, and do you have to have it to apply to college?

Hi so I am a current high school senior and applied to my colleges already, the problem is I have no idea what I want to study. I applied to all my colleges undecided, but this still will be an issue …

I've been pretty torn up about where to apply early decision and if I should do it for a reach school or a target school. I know it increases your chances even a little so should I risk it for a reach …

I have done duel enrollment or PSEO at a t100 university for the last two years of my high school career. I applied to a ton of ivies and I was wondering how would they view this and would it help me …

I am an international student so I am not really familiarize with how the process work. I used common app to submit 3 applications and later realized I screw up the format because I copy paste in the …

I have done a lot of volunteers work , and attracted about 50-60 students of my class to join and it was about a bird freedom day , where we have to create awareness among people about there lives as …

I’ve always been a straight-A student. Right now I’m a sophomore in high school and taking AP bio, and it’s been super hard on me. I got an A last trimester but I’m not sure if I’ll get one this trime …

For context, I'm part of my school's newspaper and love journalism, but don't want to study it in college. I would like to write for my universities newspaper and was wondering if putting that in my ' …

So, I submitted a few college applications and almost all of them require a mid-year report.

During this semester, all of my classes have been 9 AP classes and within those AP classes, I've only manag …

Hi! I'm a junior with a 3.88 GPA in all honors/APs. I haven't taken the SAT yet but am planning to study for it more after getting a 1360-1380 on the PSAT. My main extracurriculars are piano, a music- …