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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 …

I want to use the essay review tools/submit my essay for review on the stream tonight, but someone brought up potential plagiarism—should I be worried/not submit my essays to these platforms? I come f …

Hello.

I have some doubts. If I do the last year of high school in the USA, and Improve my grades will I be able to get good scholarship at the university. What's the biggest scholarship I can have?

Hello I'm going to be a rising junior this fall and I'm very worried about my transcript and courses. At the beginning of the school year, I wasn't aware about the opportunities offered at my school. …

What would be some good extracurriculars for a tenth grader who is condsidering majoring in classics in college? Are there any besides reading classics or learning latin and greek? Are there any that …

I logged into my account just now to find that many of my % chances of admission have changed drastically--this is true on my phone and laptop, and I double checked to ensure that I didn't change my c …

Which universities are SAT test-optional and are fairly easy to get in.

Hi, I’m a junior going into my senior year of highschool. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, a lot of the volunteering opportunities I wanted to take up at hospitals has vanished. My ability to get a j …

I am a high school Junior and am currently working on the West Point application process. Before I go too far into the lengthy process I am curious wether I will be legally bound to attend the Univer …

I am a class 10 studying student . I want to know about ap classes and honors classes . How they work . If they are online or not . And how to apply for them .

Hi, I am a junior and I took AP Calculus AB and AP Statistics this year. I am contemplating on taking AP Calculus BC next year to show colleges that I have 4 years of Math but I was just wondering whe …

I started my IGCSE's with mainly B's and C's and only 2 A's but by the end of the two years, I graduated with all As and As. Is this bad? I want to apply as an engineering major and my Math and Physic …

I am a junior at high school student in India and I'm planning to major in Economics at the top colleges in the US (Ivy leagues, Stanford, etc). Is my profile good enough and what improvements can I m …

I am an IB student and keen to apply in MIT in fall 2021. Do MIT accepts IELTS for english proficiency or does it only accepts TOEFL?

I am a class 10 student . I aspire for the universities tagged . Actually, I have a very good profile in academics . But lag behind in extra curriculars . I want to know more about how can I still bui …

Hello, I'm a rising senior with not many EC's. The only good ones I have are: playing on a team for 2 years and on the third managing it, volunteering at my doctor's office for almost 3 years, and bei …

I'm a sophomore in high school and one of the pathways that my school has is called the Health Pathway. In this pathway we learn about things to do if somebody's life is in danger and there are no "p …

As of now I've just finished my sophomore year of high school. I participate in swimming for a club and swimming for my school. I also do art classes on weekends throughout the whole year. I've been s …

I'm currently an upcoming junior for the 2020-2021 school year and my extracurricular activities have been embarrassingly scarce. Although I have been taking challenging classes for the past two years …

I will be entering my junior year of high school this fall, and for a long time I have considered taking classes at a local community college while I am still in high school in order to get ahead on c …

I am a rising junior with a 4.00 GPA (unweighted) and founder of a charity/women-empowering club. I volunteer with my church and part of the student government. I also am in a program called STEM Goes …