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Because the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions on June 29th, we recently updated our chancing algorithm so that the impact of your ethnicity is greatly reduced. As a result, your chan …

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This is more of a curiosity question tbh, but I was wondering if a student were to have several A's at a certain community college and a single B, would it be necessary to report the grade that …

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Thank you in advance for any advice.

I am currently a high-school junior and in college, I want to study poli-sci and econ. My academics are solid (4.0/1570+tons of AP) and I'm decent at writing, so …

Will this affect my admissions to top universities such as upenn, Harvard, yale?

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Hi Im a sophmore and am in my last 9 weeks for the year and I checked my gpa to find out I have a 2.0 (super bummed about it ). Is it possible that if work hard enough I could end up with a 3.7 gpa by …

I'm a junior in high school who's planning on going into STEM. I have some solid extracurriculars, but I'm looking to participate in some research-orientated ones. I don't know what would be accessibl …

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I am currently residing in Singapore and am doing my A-levels. I wish to apply to undergraduate computer science course but am not able to locate the subject and grade requirements for my particul …

I was trying to fill payment for sat may registration but it is saying try with another credit card or verify your credit card information

Hey! Have any of you applied to NASA internships before? If so, if you applied to the Summer session, when did you hear back from your specific projects, or how does the whole ordeal work? Additionall …

I've heard a lot of talk about how hard the SAT is, and I know a lot of people who took a ton of really intensive prep classes, and my dad thinks I'll need to take stuff like that too. However, I feel …

I'm a current junior who is considering applying ED to Upenn Wharton but I'm not sure if my ecs are strong enough.

Hi everyone, I'm a HS senior and I just got into UCLA, my dream school. I'm currently taking 4 AP classes and I have As in all of them except for AP calc, which I'm failing. Because of my teacher's gr …

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I need to send a request to my recommenders and the application has the question: "What is your relationship to the recommender?"

Here, should I write Student/Mentee or Professor/Mentor as they've as …

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I'm an international student writing my Why Us essay for Barnard College, which is my dream school. I was thinking of answering the prompt with a description of a day as a student, while touchi …

Which english exam is better for an european wanting to study in the US?

During the summer after my freshman year I did a 3-week stay at UCLA for a summer program related to the major that I want to do in college. The program wasn't application based, however, and all that …

Is it fine to mention other college name and cost of attendance / aid amount (whose total coa is lower) while requesting more merit based aid from another college? International student, so not eligib …

I was just curious to see if anyone has received a letter/email from them.

Hey! I’m a Junior in high school, and my school offers up to 15 AP classes and 1 honors class! In all, I’m only taking 4, 1 now in my junior year, and possibly 3 in my senior year. I don’t want to str …

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Currently residing in Singapore and plan to apply to US universities. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find clear requirements for applying for computer science undergraduate through a level. Some p …

I am a junior in high school currently and getting ready to apply to colleges next year! Due to some medical reasons I was out a few weeks my sophomore year which really hurt my uGPA due to my heavy c …