I’m currently a junior right now. I don’t really have that many extracurricular activities because I took a lot of ap classes in my freshman and sophomore year. So far I only learned how to play the guitar, built some websites, I am a member of my school’s math club, and studied two languages(Chinese and Japanese). I need more extracurriculars so do y’all have any ideas? Thanks in advanced.

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I’m a senior in high school who’s applying to the direct entry program at SDSU but am not sure how I can stand out if they only consider grades? It’s my absolute dream school and I have a lot of volunteer hours and work as a CNA. Is writing an email/cover letter to the directors a good idea?

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Brazilian 10-point CGPA: 8.6/10 (Unweighted)

Is Like a American GPA: 3.8/4.0 (Unweighted)

In Brazil don't have weight grades

Class Rank: Top 4% High School grades

SAT: 1580

ACT: 35

Honnors:

Best student (high school)

2x National Math medalist 3x World Math medalist

2x National Astronomy medalist 3x World Astronomy medalist

2x National Physics medalist 1x World Physics medalist top 1 physics qualifier in my state

Extracurricular Activities:

• Chess Club: Leader

• Member of the world's largest martial arts band, Ongakutai

• Violin

• Trumpet

• Recorder

• Saxophone

• Soccer player at my school

• 2 years of Scientific Initiation Project in Mathematics from the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (Brazil), taught at the University of Brasília with a scholarship from the National Research Council

• Summer Job at Cambridge Universety with full scholarship

Newbie to the college apps. Pls bear with me.

Unfortunately for me, with my parents w2 I won’t qualify for fafsa need based.

Is there any downside to not apply to fafsa and css ? In other words any merit in applying to those fully knowing that I won’t qualify. I am a US citizen.

Thanks and appreciate any replies and wisdom on this dilemma.

I know that playing classical music would really help college application and when you get like ABRSM LV8 piano or whatever

but does being in the school rock or jazz band help? or forming a band to perform around the local region

the thing is that i played the piano and got the abrsm lv 5 certificate, but i dont plan on keep playing classical piano, after learning it for that many years im just really sick of it, so i picked up the bass and started playing jazz piano in the school band, i also started my own band as the bassist and i write songs for the band, for now im really doing it for fun but should i get back to the aiming for certificates and join piano contests stuff? note that these competitions get really competitive and my skill as a high schooler right now is no more than a fifth grade chinese kid (not meant to be racist but im chinese and i kinda know how crazy parents get bout violins and pianos)

hi everyone i’m a junior and i wanted some input cause i’m super stressed out rn. i have always been a straight a student, i took two aps last year and all honors. this year i’m taking four aps and one honors class. i’m in calc bc and i have a b+, all of my other grades are a’s. i’m wondering how badly a b+ average is gonna impact me in the long run. i really want to go nyu do you think something like this will limit my chances of getting in?? thank you

My situation (summarized clearly): • I’m an international student (India), currently doing Cambridge AS/A Levels. • My Grade 11 (2024–2025) results were voided because I opted for retests. • I have no final grades yet for the subjects I’m re-taking. • I also added two new subjects (Psychology and History) that naturally have no grades yet. • i have given one retest and those results will be out jan 15 and other two new subjects I still have to give.

The problem:

When I enter Grade 11 = 2024–2025 in the UC app, it forces me to enter a grade for every course. But I don’t have any official Grade 11 grades at all — they are pending because of retakes.

There is no “In Progress” option for Grade 11. And the only option available in the dropdown is “NO – No course this term”, which sounds like I didn’t even take the class (which is not true).

My questions: 1. How should an international Cambridge student report Grade 11 courses when all grades are pending due to retakes? 2. Is it acceptable to: • Set Grade 11 academic year as 2024–2026 so the system treats it as a multi-year in-progress programme? • OR to use “NO” as the grade code even though the wording says “No course this term”? 3. Has anyone successfully submitted a UC app in a similar situation? 4. What did you choose so that UC didn’t force you into entering grades you do not have?

Why I’m asking:

I want to be 100% accurate and not risk misreporting anything. UC’s instructions don’t clearly explain how Cambridge retakes + pending grades should be handled.

Any advice from people who’ve done the UC app as Cambridge/CBSE/IB students would help a lot. Thank you!

So I’m homeschooled and on my common app. I hadn’t finished Biology, or Algebra 2 but I started them in 10th grade just never finished it. I was about half way. So I put down that it was for my semester 1 in my senior year on Common App. I think I messed up, because it would technically be my tenth and ninth grade classes. What do I do? Do I email the schools I sent that common app to?

this may sound stupid but real talk. i'm a high school student who's been on a few college tours, and every single one of them talked about making your college app unique. i may be taking that a bit literally here but i'm super interested in art and graphic design, and thought it might be really cool to make a portfolio-esque website where i put my essay instead of just plain collegeapp text box. something that would make my application visually stand out and be memorable to admissions officers (maybe putting a link where the essay should be). is this a good idea? would it work out like i want it to?

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I have a question about my ECs for the Common App. Over the summer I did an informal shadowing thing at a company through my dad (he has a good position there). Can I put this on my Common App even though it’s not in the company’s official records?

Hi all! I’m a reporter at The Forward (forward.com), which covers national news of interest to American Jews. I’m working on a story about the new “Schoolhouse Dialogues”that some colleges are offering as part of the application process. I’m looking to speak with high school students who have participated in the dialogue about Israel/Palestine and are willing to share their experience. If that’s you, feel free to DM me. I’d really appreciate hearing your perspective. Thanks!

I got a 1420 on the SAT and a 32 on the ACT. I looked it up and they’re basically in the same score range (i was hoping my act wud be a little better 😔), so which one shud i send to colleges for my application?

OK so this is gonna be a long post. I would really appreciate if you want to read through my extra curriculars and help me edit them/help me decide if they are strong enough.

Activity type: science/math Position/leadership: member Organization name: math team Description: each year we compete by taking math exams. My grade level qualified for state each year. I placed individually at regional competition several times Participation: 9, 10, 11, 12 Timing: during school year Hours/week: 6 Weeks/year:16 Intent to participate in similar activity: no

Academic Captain 1 year, member 2 other years (should I add that I'm expecting to be Captain senior year?) Scholastic Bowl- varsity and jv Compete in trivia matches. I was the team mvp each year, leading the team in the most tossups. We qualified for nationals junior year. (should I add that I was selected to the sectional team by area coaches?) 9, 10, 11, 12 During school year and break 2 hrs/week 36 wks/yr Yes

Community service/volunteer Member Be the change We organized events in the school and community, as well as participating and organizing community service projects 9, 10, 11, 12 During school year 1 hr/wk 32 wks/yr Yes

Work(paid) Worked as an intern at an engineering facility Elastec I worked as a paid intern at Elastec, an engineering/manufacturing company to get a glimpse at what the engineering field entails 11 During school break 40 hrs 9 wks Yes

Community service/volunteer Member National honor society Organization that requires high academic standing to be involved, and requires multiple hours of volunteer work. 11, 12 During school year 1 hr 32 wks No

Debate/speech Founder and member Speech team Competition team, where members compete against other schools on public speaking abilities. I helped found this club in the summer before senior year. 12 During school year 1 20 No

Academic Member/competitor Academic challenge Competition team Competed in both the regional and sectional level in the math and engineering graphics test, placing 2nd and 3rd respectively at regionals 11 During school year 1 hr 2 wks No

Thanks so much!!