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I am in a private school and I have a 4.0 GPA

Hi! I am currently a 10th grader and participating in multiple extra curriculars. However, I am mainly just a member for my clubs I am in. I have worked my way up to two leadership positions within my …

I'm in 9th grade, and I'm looking to apply for various prestigious internships in 10th grade. However, whatever internships I look at require me to be 16 (which I won't be until the summer before 11th …

what's the best place to find extracurriculars?

I'm a freshman and I am currently involved with activism as 5 of my extracurricular activities. For privacy reasons, I won't explicitly state which organizations I work with, but I am a state lead in …

i want to do an internship at the hospital my dad works at and if i did what tier would it go under?

Took the PSAT, got a NMS index of 218 (well above what the expected cutoff for the US is, but likely a few points too low for my home state cutoff for the official scholarship.

I'm a freshman, I just want to know what extracurriculars I can do in and out of school that will impress top colleges.

I'm hoping someone can help me again. I really enjoy history and politics and I'm pretty sure I want to major in international relations wherever I end up at. I've got all my academics in a good plac …

When applyig to colleges on the commonapp is it worth it to fill all ECs slot even if some are pretty low tiers and I have nothing else to put in it?

I am a freshman in Washington who is interested in politics, social science and economics. My extracurriculars currently focus on business, public speaking, policy making, law, writing and music (spec …

I want to do some more activities to improve my college applications. I was just wondering how I could improve my GPA and sports, etc. I am currently apart of Varsity cheer and golf. I also do a few c …

I am a sophomore in high school in the top 5% of my class aiming to go to a top 50 college. Unfortunately my school doesn’t offer any Math or CS clubs. What should I do (summers especially) to really …

I'm a sophomore interested in the social sciences, specifically political science/international relations. I'm looking to explore my career interests more and develop my extracurricular profile (which …

I’ve been seeing that colleges want you to show internships as one of the extracurricular activities on your application. Honestly though it seems impossible to find an internship that’ll actually tak …

I’m looking to do more things that show leadership, but my HS doesn't offer much right now. Are there things I can do on the internet instead of in person, especially things that are impressive for ap …

I’ve been in my HS orchestra for 2 years now (now a sophomore) and playing violin since 4th grade. I don’t like playing at school anymore but still like the instrument. Would it look bad if I drop an …

Currently a sophomore, and up until now, I had no idea what I was interested in. I did no clubs freshman year and this year I tried out AASA and Photo but quickly realized they are not for me. But I r …

hey i'm a very active member in FFA at my high school and have my state degree as well as having competed in many CDE and LDEs but I don't know how to put that on the extracurricular portion. Any help …

I'm currently a junior at a boarding school with a 4.0 unweighted GPA and a decently strong SAT score.

When starting my account and filling the extracurriculars, I started to feel like I'm not doing e …