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I’m choosing my junior year classes soon, and I’m not sure which to take. I’ve taken GATE and Honors English before in the past but I’m curious as to how colleges see them.

My top 3 colleges on my college list are MIT, Stanford, and Caltech. So I just want to be prepared with a major to present. I also want to do a double degree.

I am currently taking AP Econ. The first semester was just Micro, and now I'm taking Macro. I'm also taking AP Gov, and it's a similar situation - last semester was US Gov and this semester is Comp Go …

I just got deferred from Indiana University Bloomington. They encourage me to inform them with "new academic information," so I think I will do that. Do I email the office of admissions directly? An a …

It seems like I am being chanced higher than I should be, I also had pretty difficult courses, and I go to a very good school. I'm also getting chanced at reach for a lot of larger top schools, like G …

I saw on the chancing profile that USAMO qualification is a Tier A 'Non-art competition' activity for the chancing profile. What about the AIME? A few thousand students (not sure of the exact #) quali …

Hi! I am a junior in a traditional high school in China and our school does not have AP/IB/HONORS courses. I have a high unweighted GPA (96+/100). I am wondering if this will negatively affect the eva …

Hi! I'm Sia, and I'm currently a junior. A lot of the activities that I currently do, like dance, voice, piano, and art, I have been doing for a while and they are not related to school in any way. Th …

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 …