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📣 Community Forum Reopening Announcement 📣

We’re pleased to announce that the Community Forum is now officially open once again.

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Update: Forum Posting Temporarily Suspended

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Can someone help me improve my history essay structure and sources?

Hi everyone, I’m currently working on a history essay that’s due soon, and I’m having trouble strengthening my thesis statement, organizing my arguments clearly, and effectively analyzing historical s …

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Can someone help me improve my history essay structure and sources?

Hi everyone, I’m currently working on a history essay that’s due soon, and I’m having trouble strengthening my thesis statement, organizing my arguments clearly, and effectively analyzing historical s …

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Would This Be a Strong Essay Topic for Stanford?

My dream school is Stanford, and my goal in life has been, up until this point, to get in. Would the following be a strong essay topic if tied to other parts of my application?

Finding My Voice: Writin …

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What Can I Do?

I am currently a junior in high school who is looking to do something related to criminology or forensic sciences in college. I also want to minor in Chinese to help get a job in the criminal justice …

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Do you think getting a 30 on my ACT could improve my chances of getting into UIUC

Im a junior who currently has a 3.7 weighted GPA and 3.4 unweighted

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Need Help Choosing Between Colleges for Business/Entrepreneurship

Hi everyone!

I’ve been accepted to several great colleges, but I’m having a hard time deciding which one to attend. My intended majors are Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, or Human Resources …

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How can I become top tier?

Hey all, I'm a junior building my college resume and who I want to be as a person. My dream since elementary school has been Stanford, and now I'm also interested in Yale and Northwestern. I'm going t …

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• 5 days ago
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How I Helped My High School Son Improve His Writing

As a parent, I always thought that as long as my son understood his subjects, writing would just take care of itself. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

My son is in high school, and over the last couple …

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• 8 days ago
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Should I submit an SAT of 1420 to Swarthmore?

I have a 4.0 from a competitive public school. I have completed 6 AP courses with test scores of 5 (4 tests) and 4 (2 tests). I am presently in 6 AP courses. I want to double major in Art History and …

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Which is best MPPSC Coaching Institutes in Indore

Indore is widely known as the hub of MPPSC (Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission) preparation. Every year, thousands of aspirants move to the city because of its experienced faculty, competitive e …

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Extracurriculars?

I am a current sophomore in high school with a very late birthday, around late May, so I will be unable to get my driver's license until then. I have had a tough time attending and participating in cl …

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Urgent help

So my main uni in mind is uc Berkeley, the problem is that I’m an international student who messed up in 10th grade, I had a 2.85 uw and a code of misconduct. I’ve set up a strong ap calendar for jun …

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How do I get noticed as a high school Thrower for college?

I've been throwing for track and field for about two years. I'm a junior now and still kind of struggling of which colleges I want to actually persure in because my major will be aeronautical engineer …

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Awards/Honors Section

Good afternoon! I was wondering if I placed at top something percent in a very prestigious competition, may I place it in my awards and honors section?

Thank you in advance!

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I got the same score twice on the SAT. Help!

TL; DR: I took the SAT twice and studied between them and got the same score. Help!

Hello! I'm a junior and I'm at a loss. I took the December SAT and got my results back Friday. For reference, here ar …

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• 17 days ago
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Need Help for Extracurriculars!

I'm going into second semester of Junior year, and I feel my EC's are very lackluster. All I have is minimal volunteer hours at a nursing home, HOSA member for 2 years, Swimming and Diving for 2 years …

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• 18 days ago
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How do I tie my application together?

I have a lot of interests which seem to not tie together very well. I am president of Model UN (I do a lot of stuff with MUN), founded a political debate club, and do other world affairs things like J …

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B+ math grade in sophomore year (hear me out pls)

Before reading, please know that I'm not at all trying to ragebait or be an insufferable perfectionist. I genuinely just want some second opinions about my situation.

I just finished my first sophomor …

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I love researching + writing papers on that. How do I put that on a college app?

I'm a freshman and I really love science, history, and writing, and I write a lot of papers and articles on these subjects, just as a hobby. How do I put that on a college application?

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How do you make the ultimate decision to go to a college?

My son is getting acceptances from local California universities and some on the east coast/mid west. They are all fairly similar, some better ranked than others. How do people make the ultimate decis …

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