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I'm currently a Junior in high school and I want to know how the unweighted GPA is calculated. Is it calculated with the GPAs throughout high school (ex. 9th & 10th grade) or just your 11th grade year …

My dream School is John Hopkins University and I would like to take this classes from them and put it in extracurriculars on my resume and I don't know if this classes are worth it, and if I have more …

I cannot participate in after school clubs so I am trying to improvise.

1. I have basically been the head coach for my brothers baseball team. I have created lineups, kept stats, emailed parents, went …

I never really considered it, but I help my family ALL the time with technology and how to work it. My parents think IT is a good career for me. If I am good at helping people with technology, is IT a …

high school junior

going to take SAT again in August

My plan was to go to UT Austin but I wanted to get a hand on experience and because of the COVID-19 I decided to cancel it. But next year is my junior year and I really want to know if it would really …

I have spent 3-4 hours on programming each weekday and 4-5 hours on the weekend for 3 years. I plan to major in computer engineering.

Extracurricular activities:

1. Programmed Applications: featured i …

Founder of a very unique non profit. First in city.

Student council president

Covid-19 hand sanitizer producer. Sold 100 for free.

Web design- designed 5 websites was paid for it

Work, marketing intern …

I am a sophmore in high school and know that I want to go to medical school, residency, and become a doctor. I researched that a lot of colleges have a combined college and medical school program wher …

I am studying in India in an icse school which is a different school pattern than in USA, and as I can't figure out my gpa, can someone please tell are the grades given below good enough for MIT:

Physi …

I’ve recently become interested in taking some free online courses on EdX to pass some time productively while I’m at home. Since a lot of them are conducted by ivy leagues I was wondering if a comple …

I am a sophomore studying in India. I am planning to go to a top tier college like MIT etc. I really want to get in and want some personal advice and guidance, and that’s why was wondering if there ar …

I am currently learning Chinese through self-study. And I am planning to take a more rigorous approach to learn Chinese amidst COVID-19. Would it be considered an impressive extracurricular to go from …

I am a sophomore studying in India. I am interested in top tier colleges like MIT. I havent done any special extracurricular in 9th and now I am worried. Can anyone please suggest some online extracur …

I'm a junior at high school in India. I plan to major in Economics and I'm targeting some of the most competitive colleges (Ivies, Stanford, Amherst, UChicago, etc). Is this profile below good enough?

I am currently a junior in high school and I am about to start applying to colleges this winter. I am homeschooled and also en-rolled in a dual enrollment program where I will earn an associates degre …

I was just wondering how much hours of homework a 9th grader has per night and what takes the most time out of you're schedule as a 9th grader (extracurricular, homework, etc.)

I am a junior in India and would like how the leadership roles in India are different from the US when applying

I am studying in India in the 10th grade. I wanted to calculate my gpa but i am getting confused by credit hours and all other stuff. I am unable to find a way to calculate my gpa. Does anyone out the …

I currently live in Chile (South-America) and here we have something called "electives", where we have to chose between very little subjects, not really advance. I've seen that honour classes mean a l …