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Which one do you think is better on the premed track and why?

Hi all,

I'm going to be shadowing a surgeon for the first time. Any advice? Thanks in advance.

So I checked my chances for Pomona (9% acceptance rate) and it shows up as a 76-84% chance. Should I trust such a result? Is the data on the chancing calculator skewed by a particular anomaly for that …

I'm currently in 12th grade and I'm preparing for SAT and other components of application process for applying to top 50 Universities in usa . In my country there are very few school and Colleges that …

Hi I am a rising senior this year and to tell the truth. I am quite lost as far as my application goes. My unweighted gpa is around a 3.5 so far while my weighted is barely around a 4.0 I have taken 1 …

Im a junior. I dont have any extra curriculars. Is it too late now? What should I do?

Hi, I am applying for a STEM program in which we must write some essays, and one of them is particularly about a time that I collaborated in a group. I am planning to write about my internship last su …

I am a visual art student who is planning to go to visual arts school( university, as a dual-degree). My extracurriculars are mainly focused on visual arts(art commissioner, created an art tutor volun …

I am not very happy with my junior year grades and want to show colleges that there is more to me than a few personal issues that have happened during my junior year. So I have registered with an onli …

I am a sophomore in high school and I am interested in starting a tutoring club. I do not know what kind of tutoring we would do besides peer tutoring. But, I would not find this beneficial because st …

I am a sophomore in high school and I have been altar serving at my Catholic parish for almost 8 years now. I am aware some colleges do not count these types of activities as community service, and s …

As a US student studying abroad, will colleges, when looking at admissions, place me against every US student studying abroad or just US abroad students in my country/continent.

Hey all,

I am in the process of choosing my classes that I want for my schedule this upcoming school year. One of my classes, AP Research, depended on if I passed AP Seminar or not. I did get the quali …

I am a rising sophomore taking BC classes, but I would like to challenge myself and take AP classes. However, my school doesn't offer any.

I know that even if I had a perfect GPA, good extracurriculars, and did volunteer work that I still don't have an amazing chance of getting in. Basically even if I was the perfect student I could stil …

Hi- I'm a rising senior and I need some help on how to ask for letters of recommendation . Obviously in person would be better, but that's not looking like an option right now. My parents did not go t …

When I go to my dashboard, it shows that schools like Harvard, Dartmouth, and MIT are hard Target schools. I am very confused by this, as a couple of days ago it said that all these schools were long …

I'm going to be applying for college in the fall and I'm trying to figure out what ECs or honors I can add to strengthen my application. I want to study linguistics and I've taken German at school for …

So as part of my youth group with a religious organization along with the clergy organize a massive annual food drive and is the largest in the city (around 500k in the city) while I am not a leader I …