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📣 Community Forum Reopening Announcement 📣

We’re pleased to announce that the Community Forum is now officially open once again.

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Update: Forum Posting Temporarily Suspended

We wanted to inform you that posting on CollegeVine’s community forum will be temporarily suspended for a few days as we work to mitigate some recent spam posts. While the forum will still be accessib

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Recent Changes to Google Settings for Third-Party Apps like CollegeVine

ACTION REQUIRED: Update CollegeVine App Settings in Google Admin by October 23, 2023

For enhanced student data protection, Google is set to limit access for users under 18 to third-party apps like Coll

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college essays

I would like to get help from someone who can help me write my college essay

I am a rising senior and actually am lost on what to write about.I checked the common app essays but till i dont know what t

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Why is collegevine not letting me enter my prompt/essay for peer review?

Every time I try to manually enter my prompt, the page kinda glitches and reloads and takes away everything I typed in it. Does anyone know to fix this?

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Vanderbilt. Business schools or Howard

I have a 3.5 GPA and a 1060 SAT (gonna retake it aiming for 1380 and above), I'm a junior in high school (rising senior class of '24), a Soccer player, African American Male, I also wear hearing aids

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How do I supplement my application if applying test-optional?

Hello! Reposting this because I didn't get a response last time. :(

I recently retook the SAT and am awaiting my score. Until then, I am considering applying test-optional to several top schools (think

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How Many Essay Writing Scholarship i can Apply for?

how many eassay wriing scholarship i can apply for?

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Can I send a practice AP World DBQ to Princeton as a graded essay?

My AP World teacher graded it and gave comments on it.

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Do I have a chance getting into a top 20 college?

I will be a senior in the fall, and I've been getting a lot of mixed advice about how good my chances are at highly competitive schools. I am looking to major in business and I am a white female from

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How do I supplement my application if applying test-optional?

Hello!

I recently retook the SAT and am awaiting my score. Until then, I am considering applying test-optional to several top schools (think Ivies) but using my April SAT score to schools that are not

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3 years ago
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Anything I can do to be a better canidate for admission?

I'm sure this is what literally every junior ever is wondering but I'm still going to ask. Im going into my senior year of HS and want to know if there is anything I can do to make me a better applica

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3 years ago
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how should i improve my chances on getting into UMich?

I attend a very competitive public high school in michigan where a solid third of my school attends umich, another third attend michigan state, and the remaining third attend another school. UMich is

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3 years ago
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what else can i do to help me get into university of michigan?

I attend a very competitive public high school in michigan where a solid third of my school attends umich, another third attend michigan state, and the remaining third attend another school. UMich is

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3 years ago
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Rising Junior looking for academics and ECs, for summer & Junior year

Hello! I'm going to be a Junior for the 2023-24 school year, and I'm not sure what I should be doing to help prepare for my future. Most likely, due to tight finances I'd realistically begin higher e

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What ECs should I do if I want to major in neuroscience or psychology?

I am currently a student in grade 10. My grades aren't really good grade 9 I got a 91 and right now I am in the 90's range. Which for my school isn't very impressive. I have a lot of hardworking 95+

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How do I tie my EC Narrative Together with less than a year?

Hello!

I am a rising junior (senior in the fall) and have a mess of extracurriculars. I am not sure what I specifically want to major in, as my interests go from finance to international relations. Cur

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Improving ECs?

Hi! I'm an international student in grade 10, and I'd love some suggestions on how to make my extracurriculars more spike-y and developed. I got a 1550 SAT, and I have mostly 9s predicted on my GCSEs

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3 years ago
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Role in a team

My question to answer for a supplemental essay is which role out of 5 in a team would you find hard?

To answer this question i am planning to approach with an example of being a leader of school counci

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3 years ago
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How bad does a C hurt me?

Hey I’m a current junior who got a C in Honors Geo first semester sophomore year. The next semester I improved it to a B but I know a lot of colleges see a C as a red flag. My dream school is ND and I

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3 years ago
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How should I better my chances to get into colleges?

Hi! I’m a current junior with not the best gpa for the schools I really want to go to. My dream school is Notre Dame and I’m worried I’ll get a flat out rejection and not even waitlist or acceptance.

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tips for getting into umich?

I'm a junior, starting college apps this summer. I have a fair amount of ec's, currently studying for the act, which will hopefully make up for my low gpa. Right now, I have around a 3.6 uw gpa becaus

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3 years ago
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I've been deferred from USC and I need some advice...

USC deferred basically every single person who applied for early action this year. I wanted to ask if I still had any chance of being admitted or if should I look at attending another school I've alre

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