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Update: Forum Posting Temporarily Suspended

We wanted to inform you that posting on CollegeVine’s community forum will be temporarily suspended for a few days as we work to mitigate some recent spam posts. While the forum will still be accessib …

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Recent Changes to Google Settings for Third-Party Apps like CollegeVine

ACTION REQUIRED: Update CollegeVine App Settings in Google Admin by October 23, 2023

For enhanced student data protection, Google is set to limit access for users under 18 to third-party apps like Coll …

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Chancing Changes Due to Affirmative Action Ruling

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 …

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4 years ago
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Recruited athlete

How does being a recruited athlete to a college change my admissions chances?

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4 years ago
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Chancing Engine - Change in its evaluation of strength of courework?

Has anyone else noticed that the chancing engine recently seems to have been tweaked to have a much higher expectation for the number of AP and Honors classes required? I recently created a new profi …

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Is the chancing engine accurate

How come when I change my race on the chancing engine it changes the % so much?

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4 years ago
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How do I join other school communities

How do I join or search school community QnAs on Collegevine?

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4 years ago
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Do colleges that require/recommend a certain number of years of classes in a subject accept credits from middle school?

I took French I in 7th grade, French II in 8th grade. I am currently a sophomore in French IV honors, and I have the option of either doing French V honors or AP French next year. But at my school, AP …

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4 years ago
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How can I use CollegeVine to help me estimate my accuracy in getting into 7year programs

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I am currently in high school looking at schools and I am not so sure how to use CollegeVine to help analyze my chances into 7-year medicine programs such as BS/MD programs. I have seen and hear …

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4 years ago
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Best books on writing college essays?

I'm working on my essays and though I am looking at essay samples, I still feel a little lost. Any good books on writing essays?

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4 years ago
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Connecting On CollegeVine

Hi! I was wondering what "connecting" to a college on CollegeVine actually does. I understand it demonstrates your interest to your selected colleges, but do admissions officers actually interact with …

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4 years ago
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Qualities that will make me accepted into Drexel university

My GPA is 3.7

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4 years ago
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New Collegevine Scholarships and Tentative Stats

A lot of the stats on my profile are things I plan on doing (extracurriculars and classes I'm going to do/take, target scores on tests, etc.) and I was wondering if this disqualifies me from the new s …

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4 years ago
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Which CTC course do i take??

hii so i really want to be a doctor,so I was planning on taking clinical rotation...but then my friend told me it was bad since its a 4.0 class and will drop my gpa.She told me to take PACE instead wh …

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4 years ago
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AP bio or physics?

I have a question about science course options in high school. Our school has sooo many science options, which I a, really happy about as I want to become a vet. But, I don't know if I should take phy …

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4 years ago
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The worst and the best thing about UPenn?

Curious. I like to ask this question to current students at the schools I'm interested in (if i can figure out how to reach out to them). It's helpful to get an honest opinion!

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4 years ago
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Graduating class of 2020 but due to the covid19 epidemic?

I want to know something, I was part of my school graduating class of 2020 but due to the covid19 epidemic, I graduated 2021. Which year should reflect on my document.

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4 years ago
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I performed poorly in my public test can I be accepted in any university.

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I got F9 in four(4) subject including Math and English, and C in two subject History and Geography.

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4 years ago
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What extra curriculars and classes should I take my sophmore,junior, and senior year to be a veterinarian?

Hey Guys! I'm planning on pursuing a career in Animal Science (Veterinarian) and I'm not sure what classes I should take for my sophmore, junior, and senior year. I'm currently a freshman. My school o …

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Extracurriculars for Medicine

Hey! I am a sophomore in high school looking at a lot of really competitive schools for college (upenn, columbia, harvard are my reach schools) and i'm really struggling in the extracurricular section …

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Extra curricular activity: Is it strong enough?

Over the corona virus pandemic, due to being stuck at home, I have been giving weekly English language lessons to my grandma and her underprivileged neighborhood kids in in India through zoom (since t …

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4 years ago
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4 AP's (Bio + Chem) in my junior year?

Edit: I haven't taken any AP's before. Only pre eng 10

Hello! You guys might've noticed my last post, in which I came to the conclusion that I'm not even able to not take US Hist or Gov. So instead, I …

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