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I have been playing piano for 12 years, but stopped taking lessons about a year ago. I want to submit a music portfolio to college, but there are many articles citing the "dangers" of submitting a bad …

For me at least I was going to use the SAT to improve my academic index, but can't do that now since COVID closed all testing locations in my area till Dec. Would being a tad-bit slightly lower (0.18 …

Hi everyone! I'm a senior in high school filling out my Common App application and I have a question:

-Do I need to fill out college information for a parent that did not attend school in the US? My mo …

I really am not sure If I should go out of state or not either. I want to go to a school that will best prepare me for law school in the future. I was wondering what schools are good for pre-law in st …

My high school offers 19 AP Classes and an IB Diploma Program. By the end of my high school, I am only on track to take 11 of these classes. I also would have taken 3 concurrent enrollment classes. Wo …

I’m a rising junior and I am planning on taking 6 IB courses in the fall. I have really good gpa and I am really involved with my extracurriculars. The question I have is that since Covid-19 has prohi …

I’m currently a rising junior and my high school only offers AP classes to juniors and seniors. I’m worried that by the time I apply to colleges, I will not have taken enough AP classes to be consider …

I am a senior and starting the college application essays, I am thinking about writing an essay about how my perception of friendship changed during the summer I visited my home country for the first …

I’m a senior and applying for college I have my essay prompt and am struggling to write. Would love some help. The prompt it’s what changeless have you overcome that have helped you grow as a person i …

To those of you taken the act recently (or any other standardized test) and had to weak a mask, how was it? Was the mask distracting and do you think you could have performed better without it? Any su …

I’ve done some research into affirmative action for colleges, but the case with Asian-Americans is particularly taboo. A lot of different sources say a lot of different things. Some places tell me not …

How do we describe college classes that he has taken for full credit concurrently during high school? AP is not offered at his high school but he has 30 college credits.

I am applying to MIT as my top school for this fall and my ACT score is a 33. It is also important that I am a white male. I am aware that this is one point below their 25th percentile score of a 34. …

As I enter my activities, honors, awards, should I enter by date or by importance. If by date, most recent first? If by importance, Should I keep all national organizations together, then state, then …

I am writing the SAT in October. The problem is that the next SAT Subject test date after this is only in November, after the Early Action and Decision deadlines. Should I still write the SAT Subject …

I’m technically a sophomore in college and am 29 years old, so I want to earn a combined BS/MD so I can start working in my field of study ASAP. Many of the sites like these are catered to high school …

Hi, this is my first time posting a question here so I hope everything is alright. MIT is my dream school and I was elated to see that I had a 65-69% chance of acceptance. I referred this website to o …

I plan to take guitar lessons throughout high school, and will probably major in music when I get to college. Do guitar lessons count as an extracurricular activity?

I am trying to get extra volunteering hours, mostly in the medical field or at least related back to the medical field. I need more hours for volunteering one for my resume and for my college Apps and …

I was requested to have structure design,Art foundations and Graphic Design in order to be an architect but what really would i be doing in those classes?