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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'm thinking that it should go under academic or other club/activity, but I'm kind of hesitant because there are also other aspects involved, such as community service.

I filled out the FAFSA and since I’m free lunch I said yes. When I get to the parents section it asks me if I want to skip the questions... I click yes and all the financials are automatically skippe …

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How much do interviews weigh in an application? College counselors always say you wouldn't be at a disadvantage if you don't take one, but is that really the case? Do they add it with the res …

What would really grab the counselors' attention?

I have strong interest in both engineering and in marine biology, I don't want to double major as I plan to eventually just pick one but I am not sure at the moment. I was hoping to be able to decide …

Just to start off, I have taken the SAT once before and got a 1050 on it. I'm planning on taking it again in November and on practice tests right now it is about a 1310 so I put the 1310 SAT score alo …

When filling out the profile section and picking race, does Indian count as Asian or as another ethnicity?

I am a leader in an association of 38 members in a mobile game I play. I was wondering if it would be a bad idea to talk about this as an example of my leadership? As the president I also run a discor …

I am currently in my fourth year of interior design at my high school. I am apply to study architecture at Clemson. Because I already have work related to this field, I was wondering if Clemson accept …

I am currently in my fourth year of interior design at my high school. I am apply to study architecture at the University of Florida. Because I already have work related to this field, I was wondering …

I recently took the PSAT as an 8th grader and got 1280 (640 on each section). Is this good progress for my age? Thank you in advance!

I am worried that if I post my essay it may show up as plagiarized on my apps. If the admissions office ran my essay through something like turnitin.com, it would show up as being on the site, right? …

I am applying to UNC Early Action out-of-state. I am running out of time, so I am focusing on shortening my personal statement and the second required supplement.

Would it be better for me to submit a …

I am a senior and am running out of time with my essay.

So, I'm gay and very much in the closet, but I'm marking it on my CSU and UC apps, as well as talking about it in my common app essay. The CSU and UC application asks for permission for your parents t …

I was planning to apply to Texas A&M's EA deadline, which is in two days, on Oct 15th. I just realized that I can't submit my LORs in time of that deadline, because Texas A&M requires you to wait 3-5 …

In my two previous years of high school, I haven't made much of an effort to add extracurriculars under my belt for my college resume (I know, pretty stupid) and was wondering what extracurriculars co …

I'm filling out the activities section on the common app and I'm wondering how I should mark my participation in sports which at the moment appear unlikely to have a season. Should I mark that I parti …

I recently took the SATs and I want to use that updated score to calculate my chances instead of the previous predicted score I put in. I changed my score on my profile but when I go to "calculate you …

I was wondering what the ideal set of extracurriculars would be for elite colleges; mostly a question of how diverse they should be. We are assuming that someone has perfect or near perfect SAT/ACT sc …