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I have done three (pending four) unpaid internships, but none of them could be considered traditional volunteer experience (two are marketing, one is graphic design, and the pending is to be an unpaid …

Hi,

I am currently a junior in high school and want to pursue a BS/MD program. Because of Covid-19 finding medically related volunteer opportunities very hard. I found a few websites that allow me to …

This is the first time it has happened to me and I have been waiting around a day for the review so I am confused what it means when I have 0/0 hours left which usually gives a report delay button but …

With an otherwise strong math and AP, essays and extracurriculars application. Would you suggest sending this SAT score to schools like

Wash U, Rice, and Carnegie Mellon?

So I currently have an 80.4% in AP Micro. My school uses the grading scale of A-93 B-85 instead of the more common 10 point scale. If my grade stays the exact same would AOs see it as a “B” or would t …

If I don't live in the US, what do I enter as my zipcode on collegevine?

So, I'm Indian/South Asian (from India, the country, not Native Indian there's a lot of confusion whenever I introduce myself as Indian), and I'm unsure what option to check for the demographics secti …

I am an Indian student .I am facing problems in completing the profile .I want help in how to complete the profile and also in how to study abroad.

I would assume some Majors are more difficult to get into at some schools.

I applied REA to Stanford. I have a Common App waiver, so I should have a waiver for the CSS profile, too. But my guidance counselor keeps having difficulty getting me a fee code that works. And each …

Im an international student and I wanna know is it necessary for me to learn a foreign language (not English) like Spanish or any other to get admission in US universities like stanford and Harvard. I …

I'm really anxious about my essay that I've submitted for peer essay review. I'm afraid if someone plagiarized my essay. Is there any policy about that?

I want to conduct research sometime after Covid-19, I've made an app for elementary students and it's been useful for students who use it. I'd like to strengthen my problem statement I made for the ap …

I recently clicked on someone's essay to provide feedback only to realize that it was the same essay I had previously read the day before, only they had changed a few parts so I didn't recognize the i …

How many Activities can I put on Common App?

I’m registered for the SAT on the 5th, and I am no longer able to go. I changed all the schools I applied to test-optional, but I was told that I’d get a 0 if I just didn’t show up. Would it even matt …

College Vine's current calculations are based on the assumption of average letters of recommendation (for that school) and average essays. Is there a way to gauge the scope of benefit from a good essa …

Hey so I'm a sophomore in high school and I want to start learning how to make my college admissions essay the best it can be so I want to know what most admissions offices look at, what you guys thin …

I want to write an essay about the religious trauma I went through since I grew up in the church and how I escaped the internalized fear modern Christianity planted in me

Hi,

I am a junior in high school. My family recently moved to different city. Before we moved I used to go to one of the top competitive high schools in the nation. But now I go to a zone school. How w …