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Hi, I am currently a freshman at a public high school. I am striving to get very high SAT and ACT scores so I will have better chances of getting into my dream college. I took the ACT in 7th grade for …

Hi, I am from India and I want to get into Harvard University. However I didn't took any special classes because my school didn't provide one they teach 6 subject to everyone in the school and I have …

Hi, I am part of my school's Science Olympiad Team and I participated at Princeton University's Science Olympiad Invitational where I placed 11th for my event out of 51 other schools. I, unfortunately …

Hi, I'm an uprising Freshman looking to go into the medical field, I am going to attend an Engineering/Biomedical school next year and am confused on which classes I should take throughout High School …

Hi, I'm going to be a freshman in the 2020-2021 school year and I'm looking into extracurricular activities that I can take throughout High School. In middle school, I participated in a leadership pro …

I put in "I plan to apply for financial aid" under my academic profile and saw my chance for a school like UC Berkeley drop from 35% to 23%. Is applying for financial aid really that big of a factor i …

Hi, I'm a freshman at a public high school! I recently found out that my unweighted class rank is 1st, and my weighted class rank is 3rd, out of a class of 421 people. That means that I am in the top …

Essentially, I have a slightly weak application in terms of AP/Honors coursework so I am leaning against applying to the COE, but I want to know whether that should deter me.

Hi, so i wanna ask. I'm a junior right now in Indonesia, but i'm not attending international school. I'm attending private vocational school. I found out that there's AP classes and honor classes, i d …

Hi! I’m a rising sophomore so this isn’t much of a concern right now, but I don’t know what race to put on my college apps! My mom is purely white and my dad is very african. So I would mark both, but …

I'm a sophomore in highschool and I'm very interested in music and engineering. My current extracurriculars are band/drumline, National Honors Society/volunteering, jazz band, and outside of scho …

Even though I'm a freshman, I'd like to make sure I'm starting off on the right foot. I am hoping to pursue a career in medicine at (hopefully) a fairly well-known university. I'm not sure what clubs/ …

I am a sophomore, and I initially thought I will go into medicine. My parents really wanted me to go into this field so I volunteered at a hospital, became a founder of HOSA at my school, and went to …

I am currently in

-Choir

-Debate

-Quizbowl

- (I'm also doing Soccer for my school, if that counts...)

And next year I am planning to join

-HOSA

- (maybe) Science Olympiad

Junior/Senior Year I am planning …

I go to a public high school, and I am currently a freshman. Our counseling staff told us about our class rank in a presentation this year, but did not tell us when our rank would be released or where …

I am currently a freshman in high school. I am really interested in going to a good college and I want to major in engineering. Probably mechanical engineering but I am also interested in robotics. M …

I know that applying to a lot of schools is super hard, but I want to try to see if I can get into the most prestigious school I can. I'm not gonna list out my stats, but I have a pretty strong applic …

I'm an incoming Sophomore, and I am taking two AP's next year. I'm taking APUSH and AP Chem. But I'm not sure how many AP's I should take over the next few years if I want to pursue a career in medici …

I'm a 9th grader at a Public High School. I took the ACT in 8th grade, and I got a 23. By the time I am applying to colleges (senior/junior) year, I would like to raise my ACT to a 30 or above. Do you …

I want to apply to UIowa next year and they accept both of the aforementioned applications. Is there any advantage to using one over the other?