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Service Hours

Is there a place to add my service hours too? I am a current Junior and would like to have the most accurate idea of what schools I can shoot for and what not.

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How do I identify myself on common app?

So I'm Brazilian and so are my parents, and of course I put myself down as Hispanic. The thing is, I don't know if I should put myself down as black or not. My fathers parents are both of African desc …

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How to Add Cambridge AICE Exam Scores to Collegevine Profile

Hello! Current junior here. I attend a school with the option for students to participate in the Cambridge AICE Diploma program. I have a few AICE exam results I would like to add to my profile, but C …

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How to Add Cambridge AICE Exam Scores to Collegevine Profile

Hello! Current junior here. I attend a school with the option for students to participate in the Cambridge AICE Diploma program. I have a few AICE exam results I would like to add to my profile, but C …

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Should I submit my college transcript from a summer program and fall semester to colleges?

Over the summer, I participated in a program at a college where I received an 'A' and earned credit for a course I took. Currently, I am enrolled in two online courses at a local community college, wh …

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Is there anything I can do to increase my chances into getting into more selective universities?

I'm a junior and I want to get into difficult schools. Unfortunately, I didn't realize how important your freshman year was for your GPA and now I feel very behind. I have a 3.65 unweighted and a 3.85 …

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AP Stats and AP Calc AB Scheduling

So I want to major in Psychology (double major in smth else, but that's not relevant), and I know Stats is super important for that. So next year (11th/Junior) I can take either AP Calc AB, which is t …

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I have scored 1520 in SAT. I am considering to retake to increase my score

Math 800.

What if I score lower? Will it effect the admission process, or I can still be considered with my highest score?

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Partially through a college application with BYU Provo, thoughts?

There's about 6-8 essays total, I've done 4.

1 is about what you lose track of time doing, I wrote about how I'm creative with my hands with things such as welding and leatherwork.

2 is about a signif …

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What are good topics for a college essay??

I know I’m super late to this but I’ve really been struggling trying to find a good topic to write my essay on. I’ve drafted some but I feel like they seem like sob stories. The prompts on the common …

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Could someone give me their opinion on my personal statement?

I feel good about it being honest, but I feel as if there is something wrong with it. As if something is missing.

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5 or 6 classes senior year?

I’m a senior and my college counselor told me it would be better to take 6 classes my senior year, but so far the workload is too much for me, along with my ECs and applications. My school does not o …

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33 ACT Retake? Submit?

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SAT exam

Good Evening, I had registered for SAT exam. I don't know if I going to pass SAT because I beginning to feel worry and nervous about this when I going to get a low score.

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Double Majoring

I'm a junior in high school and I want to major in psychology, but I also want to double major. I'm also planning on minoring in chemistry and pursuing a masters so I can become a forensic psychologis …

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Will I get into TAMU Business school? Any advice

I’m an African high school junior who is in an early college competitive high school in Texas. I’m rank 40/96 (working on it) but I am on track to getting my associates degree by the time I graduate h …

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Best Colleges for Disablities (T20)

I have ADHD and while prestige is important, so is access to great disability services. I tried looking up rankings, but nothing seems to give me a clear answer. What are some colleges that are good f …

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College essay

Hi, I'm a senior and I am currently working on my college essay, however, I need help with starting my essay with an interesting hook. I want to write about how k-pop, more specifically BTS and NCT, h …

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I messed up on the UTD optional essay and I need advice.

hey everyone I'm a high school senior who just submitted my utd application. so basically I'm applying to tamu, utd, and a few other colleges here in texas. for tamu I'm applying for engineering and f …

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spike question - do colleges not like it if you enter HS wanting to be one job, but end up changing your career choice?

A little context -

- During 8th grade, I wanted to be a pilot. Now, I'm a freshman in high school taking an aviation elective. the class material was very boring for me

- I wanted to be so many things …

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