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Because the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions on June 29th, we recently updated our chancing algorithm so that the impact of your ethnicity is greatly reduced. As a result, your chan …

For anyone who is experienced on the pre-med track (or who is currently on it), I wish to know the best schools with a PhD-MD program and the many paths one can take to earn that dual degree. Currentl …

For the application effort on College vine, it says 16 hours for Brown. That is a lot longer than any of the other colleges I am applying to, and I am not sure if it is worth the effort. I looked at t …

Is there any other option to enter Harvard Medical School for the MD program there?

I am eligible to receive a common app fee waiver. I saw that my counselor needs to sign for confirmation but when I talked to him, he said he doesn't need to do anything. It still says "fee waiver not …

I am sophomore in high school. I am planning to take SAT/ACT later this year, but I know that I will have to take it again in the future during junior year. Will colleges have access to my testing his …

I took AP Biology as a freshman in high school (2019-2020 school year). My grades in that class were very good and were consistently above a 96. I ended the year with a final average of 96 in AP Biolo …

I am a sophomore in high school. My grades are excellent with 97s or higher in all of my classes. My weighted GPA is a 102.63 and I am rank 10 out of 721 students. I plan on majoring in pre-med, and I …

I gave someone some help today - I was glad to - but I want to know if my suggestions aided them or if they were a flop, and I'd like to ask if the person needs anything else, if I missed anything, et …

Should I focus on improving my 1420 in SAT 1 or do SAT subject tests instead? How important are the SAT subject tests?

I am a Senior Year (Year 12) student from India. I have a GPA of 4 in all my subjects. Could you please suggest some colleges/Universities I can apply for Computer (Software) Engineering (B.Eng) in th …

If I have a very compelling story which can become a "wow" factor can I use it for answering similar essay prompts of different universities? Do AOs check in with each other or something?

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I am a sophmore (in florida) and have started to take dual enrollment classes and was wondering should i spend more time on ap or dual enrollment. I was also considering doing early admissions at my l …

I am applying Regular Decision as a first-time freshman to the University of Southern California and the University of Richmond. The Regular Decision deadlines are January 15 and January 1, respective …

Hello, I am a writer for the Medium online writing platform. As this is not a school publication or a personal blog, I'm not really sure where this would go on CollegeVine's tiers. Could someone point …

Hello, I am a junior in High school right now. I took two APs last year (AP Bio and Modern European History) and am taking five this year (AP Chem, APUSH, AP French, AP Calc BC, and AP Language and Co …

I’ve had a rough finish in the finale of the 2019-20 academic year and ended with four B’s and a C in health! Did this ultimately ruin me? I’ve taken all Honors and AP last year and this year I’ve tak …

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I turned in the form for the application review but I didn't receive any information after that so could someone tell me what usually happens? Do we get a notification if our profile is se …

Hi, I'm a senior working on college applications.

I have automatic admission to UT but I'm really passionate about getting into the Dean's scholars program (a College of Natural Sciences honors program …

Most colleges provide a 25-75 percentile of average scores by students, and if my score is lower than the minimum, how do I know how many points below the minimum is too much? I don't want to hurt my …

One of the suggestions listed is that I should try and add at list one Tier G extracurricular . What is an example of a Tier G extracurricular.