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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 am a freshman. International student.

I am wondering why my approximate chance of getting into harvard is 1%-9%, even though I have excellent ACT and strong extracurriculars and academics? Meanwhile …

Also, I don't know if I should choose Middle Eastern or White or Asian in the demographics section. Will this matter too much?

I am a sophomore and I am interested in the nursing field and I am looking to start a club at my school related to science/health care. My school already has a medical club where the founders bring in …

I am a high school sophomore and I am interested in the nursing career path. I want to improve my resume by having hospital/heath care extra-curriculars. I am just unsure on how to approach this

I am an international student and I don't care how big or famous a college or university is. I just want to get 100% financial aid. should I apply to universities with a higher acceptance rates that p …

What are some good scholarship websites? What are some good/easy specific scholarships should a rising high school senior apply for?

I am an international student and I want to apply to top US universities (stanford,MIT,Harvard, Upenn, Umich UCLA and others like these)

I will be applying in the end of 2021

I want to know how to apply …

STEM is a very, very large field and a lot of students are majoring in it. As such, I want to know what will make me stand out compared to other STEM majors.

I only took 4 AP Classes in High school so I was wondering if this is too low for a school that I am applying to with around 30% acceptance rate? Also is unweighted or weighted GPA more important for …

As a senior, my concern has to do with the changes in application procedures for the Fall 2021 admissions. Since many schools are switching to test optional, will there be a higher reliance on essays …

I know that being Hispanic can boost your admissions chances sometimes (obviously race alone would not guarantee admission, but I am pretty sure that there are less Hispanic applicants than applicants …

I have already enrolled in a private university for this fall and received multiple merit- & need-based scholarships. However, even before COVID this wasn’t enough, and now the pandemic has hurt my fa …

So as part of my youth groups (synoguage) student board we organized and ran a fairly large carnival for a holiday. Our synoguage is one of 4-5 in the state and the only of our denomination. (The carn …

I want to go ahead and apply for colleges early to see if I can get in. Should I do that, and if I do can I wait to actually attend until fall of 2022?

I just heard about the Seal of Biliteracy and I have taken 4 years of Spanish and I am fluent. I looked up the Seal of Biliteracy requirements for my state and I meet them assuming I passed my AICE la …

Hello. Does anybody know how to convert British exam marks to at least (even an approximation) of American GPA? Many thanks in advance.

It says in the chancing section that the course-load profile is in construction. When will they finish upgrading it? So are the chancing percentages given to me not taking into account of the work loa …

Hello! When the chancing percentages appear in the College Vine profile, are these representing the acceptance rates? For example (and it's just an example), if MIT's traditional acceptance rate is 5% …

I want to calculate my chances and my cumulative GPA but even my counsellor doesn't know how to convert the IB grades to grades given in American schools. My first year of high school was IB and I had …

i have not wriiten sat yet and have a 3.9 GPA