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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 …

Hi! I'm a freshman, and I was wondering which elective I should take next year. The first choice is Leadership. I've taken Leadership throughout middle school, and I took it this year in high school a …

I am an Indian and not able to pay my css fee waiver fees as it shows invalid transaction and I tried contacting css but didn't get any response so someone please guide me I was using a visa debit car …

I'm a freshman in high school, and I would want to know if anyone has any experience founding or holding a leadership in a club. I'm a naturally introverted person, but I have worked on that so I'd sa …

...contd or apply to any leadership positions, do ya'll believe this will affect my applications? To add to that in our school you have to be a junior to run for a leadership position in our honor so …

Hi, so I am in the National Honor Society this year and I must have at least 15 hours of community service. I am an aspiring filmmaker so I normally try to work with extracurriculars dealing with film …

I am a junior in high school (11th grade). When I was completing my profile, I came across many details (necessary) that don't include me because I am an international student. It made me think to lo …

As of today I'm proficient in three languages (Portuguese, which is my first, English and Spanish) and am studying three more (French, ASL and Brazilian Sign Language). I plan on getting able to commu …

I'm from Brazil, and here there is almost no school that offers APs here. I've seen those online college courses that some elite schools offer, but I'm not sure if I will be able to buy the certificat …

I'm a junior from a Brazilian public school.

There is no APs at my school, nor any other school I know of. But my school is a little bit different from most of Brazilian schools, because when I graduat …

Due to COVID-19, I wasn't able to fully take opportunities of the in school extracurriculars only available for juniors and seniors, will it damage my application in any way if I only do them on my se …

What kind of things can/should I put in the honors/awards section on the common app? If I win a NYT or any other newspaper/magazine writing contest, will it count as an award?

I'm a junior from Brazil …

i planning to major in finance and economic at ivy league school would starting a project be a good extracurricular

the project i want to do it automated trading/investing

how much time do i spend on it

I'm going to be a future journalist/ English major and as such, have participated in a number of activities because of it. One of those being a bunch of writing contests. Should I only include the mos …

Michigan State University still hasn't received my Mid Year Report. It shows that they requested it on my application portal, but they still haven't received it. My High School counselor sent my Mid Y …