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Welcome to the Juniors community 🎉

This is a place to learn how other juniors are talking about college admissions.

There are a few easy ways to participate:

1. Get started by checking out our guidance page for juniors. Here you will fi …

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Am I good enough?

I have always been a good student. Principals List, high GPA, honor student, dual enrollment classes, all the typical "top student" things. My school does not offer many clubs or extracurricular class …

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Extracurricular Activites? - How many does someone need?

I have a 3.941 GPA and plan to get a 32-34 on the ACT. I'm currently in around 4 extracurricular activities;

- FIRST Robotics

- 3D Printing (a new club at my school)

- Science Olympiad

- NHS (National Ho …

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question about sat

hi! took the written sat and got a 760 on the english and a 690 on the math. I wanted to do better on the math since it's on the average/below average for a lot of the schools I want to apply to (top …

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Will my demographics and extracurriculars balance out my GPA?

Hi everyone! I'm currently a Junior and wrapping up my first semester. I'm from Connecticut and plan on applying to top schools in the Northeast such as New York Universiy and Boston University. Howev …

 
You're doing great!
30%
 
Prioritize academics.
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Prioritize extracurriculars.
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extracurriculars ? ~ and needed tips about self discipline

Hi my name is Rayne,

I have bad attendance (already missed 190 hours of school and it's only the first semester) and no extracurriculars. I went to one meeting of speech and debate and found it ultim …

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Extracurriculars

Hi I'm Vanessa, like most people on here I'd like a second opinion on my extracurriculars. I don't know if everything i'm putting down below counts as an extracurricular, I'm also going to put hobbies …

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College courses

Hi my name is Kayla. One of my teachers recommended that I take a college course, I'm not sure because i don't know if it would help my GPA? I'm just kind of confused about what taking a college cours …

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Choosing a career

So im a junior(duh) and im really struggling to pick a career for my future. My dream college is flagler (its not some great place but its nice and i love the city there) and im just really struggling …

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College applications

Hi my name is Kayla and i'm currently a junior. My GPA is 2.6 which is low and I want to do better. Im going to be taking AP psychology next year and i'm going to do more volunteering. Im worried I wo …

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AP Music Theory Advice!

Hi I’m currently taking AP Music Theory and I’m wondering if anyone who’s currently taking this class or took it has any resources that’ll help me with it! Thanks a lot! :)

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do i have enough extracurriculars?

i'm currently a junior and have a 4.2 weighted GPA. so far, i've taken 2 dual enrollment, 2 AP, and 4 honors classes. i'm worried about my extracurriculars though, so i was hoping i could get a second …

 
take more extracurriculars
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you have enough!
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put more focus into academics
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Any AP tips?

i'm taking ap human geography, which so far has been fairly decent, nothing too hard, but the tests we take are killing me. does anyone have tips for how they remembered vocab and other stuff for ap c …

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College accpetance

Hi everyone, My name is Yash and I am currently in 11th grade and for the grade for this semester i would have 4 As 2 Bs and one C the Bs and C is for the AP classes i am currently taking do you think …

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I am new to all of this and have no idea.

Hi. I'm Ibtesam. I live in a south Asian country. Honestly, I had no plan about getting into a college in USA. But I want it now. I'm in 11th grade right now and since I didn't have any plan, I haven' …

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College Counseling Organization

Hello everyone! I am Anastasia Mrelashvili, a junior from Tbilisi, Georgia. I have just come up with a new extracurricular idea. My idea is to create an international college counseling organization. …

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should i wait to apply to college

hey so i'm a junior (well duh) and I'm ready to start applying, but i didn't take the sat or act and i don't look forward to taking it is there any schools that have a junior applicant forms.

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Homeschoolers

Hi!

I am a homeschooled junior and I thought it would be cool to start a discussion and find out how many homeschoolers there are here on Collegevine!

Homeschooling can affect the college process in di …

 
Homeschooled entire life
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What More Can I Do?

My dream college has a 50% acceptance rate and I thought I had a solid shot before chancing myself via collegevine, which gave me a score of 19%. I wasn't involved in anything prior to this year (my j …

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psat

so i took my psat sophomore and junior year, but i got the same exact score both years, even after studying. what should i do to get it higher?

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I am convinced that I can get into Juilliard and this is a problem

I just got accepted into my state's all-state orchestra as one of 2 clarinetists!! I played in the all-state band in my freshman and sophomore years, but the band accepts a ton of clarinetists every y …

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