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I am an international student from Nigeria. Pls I would like to know the meaning of AP and IB

I am from England and am really wandering if there are any good websites that help you with SATs and APs, I had managed to find places that hold all the exams but its just a case of actually learning …

I am an international student, I am in grade 10 in senior high school.

I want to know if I can register for an SAT scholarship exam and write it in grade 11 of senior high school.

Hi! I wanted to know if applying with the individual application for a certain school is better than applying with the common app. I really want to be accepted into the University of Minnesota, and I' …

Hello I would really like some advice on my problem. I have finished highschool two years ago , and I would like to send my transcripts/school reports to universities in America. How do I do that , s …

So I plan on applying to Princeton and noticed that they require a graded paper from an English/social studies class as a part of their application. However, my junior English teacher graded our essay …

Im planning on doing a finance major for university. Considering how popular finance majors are in universities in the US, does my rate of acceptance change as I’m picking something that lots of other …

Structure Design, Art foundations, Graphic Design(THESE ARE THE CLASSES I COULD CHOOSE FROM I COULD ONLY CHOOSE ONE FROM EACH)

FULL CREDIT ELECTIVES HALF CREDIT ELECTIVES

Art 1 Art Foundation …

I am interested in a biology major but don't know if I should focus on that when writing my essay. Should I try to set myself up for another major so that my chances of getting into my dream school in …

How do I delete schools from my saved list?

So my freshman year I signed for AP Human Geo one of only 2 AP classes available before junior year. However, at thanksgiving break I transferred out of the school. I then moved to a school that doesn …

I am an international student on leave of absence at a US institution. I would like to transfer to another school.

Can I legally do that as a first year student or must I pick up from where I am in my …

I have provide all my details on CollegeVine website. As a summary of my profile it shows

Gpa-Excellent

Sat1/2-Excellent

Extracurricular-Excellent

Still my chances, according to CollegeVine, to get into …

Public school

Grade 11

In Africa

Swaziland

Hey there,

Can I add courses I take on coursera as part of my activities?

Also, if I participated in an extracurricular while in high school and graduated is it worth mentioning?

What does one do if the essay topic is cliche? Like, it's something the admission committee would have seen before but it's also meaningful to you?

Hi, my UW GPA is 3.96/4.0 whereas my weighted is 4.21. Because of COVID i was not able to get the weight of 3 out of 4 of my AP classes that I took during junior yr, since my school did pass/fail grad …

I live in a very remote place of India and we don't have much opportunities here. Our school doesn't even have a cousellor and provide zero extracurricular activities to do. I really don't do anything …

What is the difference between a weighted GPA on a 4.0 scale and an unweighted GPA on a 4.0 scale?

I follow the Cambridge International Examinations curriculum, and am currently doing 3 AS Levels and 3 A Levels and have 7 IGCSEs. I have a few questions about how the transcript should look:

1. These …