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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 …

Hi. I'm Rosemellie. I'm 15 and in grade 11. Basically I've just started thinking bout college and I have no idea where to start. I've chosen Legal Practices as my chosen career however I have no clue …

I have a ~3.6 GPA, but if you count the 3 AP classes I've taken, it goes up to a 3.714. Which number do colleges look at, or does it vary depending on the school?

I’m currently in my junior year of high school, and because of a bit of stumbling my freshman year, I’ve had a lower GPA than I’d like to have. Weighted, as of right now, is a 3.93 and my unweighted i …

I am a high school sophmore based in India, I just wanted to know what is high school diploma called in India , or what is equivalent to it in India for CBSE board.

I’m a high school sophomore from Georgia, and before I started high school, I was a pretty standout student in middle school, performing very high academically. However, during my first semester in fr …

Hello! I had gotten feedback for one of my submitted essays a few days ago; however, when I now go to "My Essays" in the "Peer Review" section, I find the essay and its feedback missing--as if it was …

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A little bit about myself, I’m currently in 12th grade and will finish my high school by March 2022. My nationality is American but I have stayed in India for a bit and then have been living in Si …

Over the past few days, I have been getting ads and emails from colleges to experience their virtual pre-college courses. I am wondering if doing something like this will make me stand out in college …

So I want to know that what is the correct time to give SAT exams like in starting of class 12( in April or afterwards in ( September) ?

So I want to pursue engineering in future but not software engineering .. so I want to know like which engineering has a good scope ahead in future ?

I am a student of class 11 and I want to do engineering in future so I want to know that when and which exams or tests ( SAT , or Eillts or which one ) should I give if I want admission in a good uni …

Hi, I am pretty deep into the college selection process, now down to my final schools (UMBC and UMD). I love them both and was wondering if anybody who either attends one of the two schools or is simp …

I think that I will likely end up going to community college after high school. But I am not sure how well I would be able to prepare for the SAT, so is an SAT score necessary to transfer from communi …

What would most people's answers be if I asked them that question? Thanks!

I have abusive family members who may try and come see me at college. I do not want this and I am viewing college as a way to finally get away from them. Campus security matters to me because of that. …

As a preface, I am currently a junior and I'm currently taking 4 APs, I'd like to major in psychology with a pre-med track. So far for my senior year I'd like to take AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Macro/Gov, a …

When applying to college, would colleges value more extracurricular activities on a transcript or only having a select few extracurricular activities but in those activities someone is active and hold …

I am 16 and in 10th grade, I have a GPA of a 2.6 (that’s only one semester) I want to go into prehospital care (paramedic) but have a low GPA, and am terrible in biology and sciences needed for it, h …

Hi, I am pretty deep into the college selection process, now down to my final schools (Penn State and UMD). I love them both and was wondering if anybody who either attends one of the two schools or i …