Admissions Advice

Should I use all 10 of the Slot on the Common App Activties Section? I have like 4 activities that are high commitments, 3 that are medium commitments and 2 that are low commitments. Should I still bo …

Wondering if someone could help me order my ECs--watched so many YT videos and posts here that have conflicting advice and I'm so stressed and confused now bc all of my ECs are important to me, but ap …

Junior year, my mom had surgery for cancer and as a result towards the end of April going through May I had to give up studying time to take care of her. I was also unable to put my best effort into A …

I had an eye infection the day of the APUSH exam. It was no longer contagious (the other eye was previously infected and i had been treating both eyes with the eye drops), and it seemed somewhat okay …

So I play football and I pretty much am involved it for most of the year. Some weeks I don't do as much with football and some weeks I do more with football. So should I just calculate the rough estim …

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I asked a question regarding this a while ago, but I have more questions now...

1) What are some examples of schools that accept students via the collegevine application feature?

2) When will colleges s …

I started looking at colleges and I realized that compared to other applicants I have very few extracurriculars. During covid I lived with strict relatives (who didn't want me to join clubs at all) so …

I'm a junior at high school in India. I plan to major in Law and I'm targeting top colleges in Australia. Is this profile below good enough?

Extra Curriculars:

1) Legal- I have interned with two differe …

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I'm currently a freshman in high school. Sophomore year I'll be taking honors classes and hopefully AP mixed with honors classes my junior year. I was wondering if taking 2-3 honors and 1-2 AP c …

I did a summer precollege program at a large university and took two courses there. I got a C+ and a B-, which I realize is normal in college, however, I don’t know if it’s worth talking about in my c …

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As we’re approaching the end of our first year of A-Levels, I am looking to utilise my summer vaccinations in the most productive manner possible! So, I would like some recommendations on what ext …

I'm asking because the application process on common-app, relatively speaking, is lengthy compared to other independent website applications. Especially the teachers' recommendation part is particular …

I'm a junior in high school at the moment and I'm trying to figure out what schools I'm considering applying to as ED. Although its a well-known fact that the ED rounds of selective schools have highe …

TLDR; looking for things to shiny-up application so admissions officers will overlook my bad freshman grades. Background, grades, ECs below.

Hello! I'm currently 16 and a high school junior and as I'm …

I was wondering I have 9 EC's right now and I don't do all 9 at the same time they vary on the time of year. I was just wondering I haven't gotten an common app account but is there a section where i …

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Hello. I recently had an additional leadership activity at my school that is related to Duke Basketball. I planned on discussing this activity in my interview, but since I submitted my Duke applicatio …

I’ve only been in college one semester and have 2 extracurriculars to show for it. Should I include my high school ones? Or only the most prominent high school ones like NHS and leave off 4 year varsi …

I got deferred from Case Western. In the time since applying and now, I have made some heavy revisions to my additional information, activities, and common app essay. These changes are as simple as re …