Admissions Advice

So recently I looked at the College Vine data information that it is now including the test-optional option and because of this all of my acceptance chances went up by a lot. Before my chances of gett …

I'm a junior this year and didn't do much about my extracurriculars. I did track in 9th and 10th grade, I joined art club in 10th and am continuing it. I decided to join one club in my junior year and …

Lately I've really been getting into editing the Wikipedia pages for my local area. I'm thoroughly enjoying it and I'm considering branching about more. I know this wouldn't really count as published …

The teacher from whom I requested a letter of recommendation wants a list of my activities. I did not give her one because I did not want her to rehash what is on my college application. Instead, I wr …

So I have a created a personal blog but I am curious on how they would evaluate it as an EC? It isn't a well-known or for that matter known as I can't get it indexed on google and I've tried my hand a …

I am an international student and my highschool doesn't provide honor classes, AP classes at all ,and the school doesnt allow the formation of clubs. There are no community colleges that provide cours …

At my house we have 500+ books and I know how to create databases and such.this is a long term project that I have planned and I am wondering if it could be considered as an extracurricular or would i …

Can someone give me an idea what a "Tier G" activity is?

Ive been trying to find other things to do, but I can’t really think of anything. I’ve been writing computer programs and am currently working with a computer science teacher on getting one of them pr …

I decided to do Link crew this year as a senior because I was overly busy junior year so I was not able to. I’m wondering if I should put it on my college application or in the resume to just show tha …

I’m currently a sophomore from SoCal, and I’m aiming to get into Yale. I see so many people over the COVID-19 quarantine start non-profits/organizations, and I feel like if I started my own literary m …

I am current senior so I have limited time to upgrade my extracurriculars.

I am in 9th grade in india and i want to get admitted in mit standford yale etc.

i think this is the best time for ecs so can you suggest me the ecs in stem and sports fields?

I have provide all my details on CollegeVine website. As a summary of my profile it shows

Gpa-Excellent

Sat1/2-Excellent

Extracurricular-Excellent

Still my chances, according to CollegeVine, to get into …

Hey there,

Can I add courses I take on coursera as part of my activities?

Also, if I participated in an extracurricular while in high school and graduated is it worth mentioning?

I live in a very remote place of India and we don't have much opportunities here. Our school doesn't even have a cousellor and provide zero extracurricular activities to do. I really don't do anything …

I want to attend Duke for a lot of reasons. I love their academics, athletics, and school spirit. However, I want to major in filmmaking, theatre, and pre-law. Duke has all of those majors. I know Duk …

I've participated in an engineering camp- my first instinct is to categorize it as Science/Math, but it also involved some computer/technology. Can I go with Science/Math, or should I categorize them …

I am planning on majoring in computer science and engineering and minoring in programming but I am going to grade ten and I am getting worried about what to put at extracurriculars mainly because most …

I started a Student Cultural Committee and my previous school that was pretty devoid of any sort of clubs or extracurriculars, but I had to move unexpectedly. I don’t want to just abandon my brain chi …