What Do Colleges Look at First on Your Application?

Does referrals goes in your transcript

Ya’ll the uk has such a good education system, the US and the country I’m from (rlly similar education system to the US) is so darn competitive and misses out on so many bright minds

Bro what are these "take these hard classes" I live in Croatia, and I have NO idea what any of this shit means, can someone please tell me if something is different in America compared to Croatia?

Bro broke that pencil like anything 🤨
Has he done this before!?

I want to go to college with my best friend, but I’m probably screwed because I didn’t do well in high school. 💀

Well, Devi was wrong… something to think about

Can I apply as a freshman to usa universities but right now i am doing a 2 year diploma programme. So i will be 20 years old old

In Singapore we cannot take advanced classes. sad

What about schools? Some schools are more advance than others with the same class. I heard you can go to less advanced school to get a better grade with the same class. Is this true?

Hey, what's important in a college application when it comes to a film and tv course

What music he uses in back ground?

NOTICE: ONLY TAKE IB, AP, HONORS, DUAL, AND ALL ADVANCED CLASSES IF YOU KNOW YOU CAN GET A GOOD GRADE. It is better to take a normal class and get an A rather than taking a harder class and getting a low grade. So no, DONT always take the harder classes. Take everything into account before choosing. Plus, if you plan on doing so, make sure you CAN dedicate yourself to studying. Especially the harder subjects. You will need to do so.

High school fucking cucked me bro

My school doesn't offer those classes nor either Ap or honors classes, it a pity 😭

Me going to a charter school where I get an associate's degree when I graduate high school: hehehe 😈 i got all the hard classes

I dont even car about school im focusing on business and other things but My parents have me in online during highschool which is boring and I would like to go to a small university for like 2 years just to have fan and make up what I missed out on highschool

My high schools grading is crap. They don’t weight your average correctly so chances are, a kid in regular classes is going to be valedictorian. Luckily, I think my school is changing that! (Hopefully)

Yea okay I took like 12 AP classes most of which I got like Bs or As in and I still got rejected from many UCs and CSUs, I don’t know what I did, but I’m doing it terribly.

I just dont take the hardest classes if they are not useful to me :/ I like math and cs so I took calculus and a cs class they gave but thats it all the other classes I took were regular with normal grades I guess.

Can you do a south Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦one because we are different from you guys 📲📲

What about an A+ in AP Chem 💁🏻‍♀️ (yes i'm gloating bite me)

Okay now what am I supposed to do? There is no AP classes in my country we just take basic biology, physics, chemistry, math or anything and on top of that my grades from grade 9-11 are very bad. I want to be cardiologist sooooo bad that’s my dream bro 😭😭😭😭

What sucks about college is that when I was in high school, I was in some of the darkest days and I was barely able to pass, and now that I’m doing better and feeling more motivated to get a degree, I have to cross out so many even medium level schools just because of what I did as a kid. 19 ACT not even taken the SAT, multiple F’s on my grades, and that’s why even now as I’m 19 2 years graduated, I’m already wrapped up for my life just because of how I did in high school.

Thanks alot for sharing so many tips I will for sure use these when applying for college

me with an F in AP Biology 🥲

This is so funny because in the Netherlands for most studies you don’t even have to show your grades.

And then there’s me with only ap/ab calc offered at my school and I have a D because I can’t keep up… I know I would be fine in regular calc too

When you get a 86 in ap chem 😢

What if I made a typing mistake in the number of participants of the National Math Olympiad.
I am from Paraguay and I got 1st in that, and I put it on my Common App of course, but I accidentally put one cero more. It had to be like this:

"Gold medal, Math Nationals (x2). Ranked 1st out of 45,000 participants"

But I put 450,000 instead.
I hace already contacted my admissions officer to inform him about it. Was it the correct thing to do? I really did not mean to do that or exaggerate. I also attached to that email a photo with the gold medallists to give them proof of my honor.

This is False! To colleges, an A is more important to them then a B in a hard class. Take what ever you can get an A in. Don’t let hard classes bring your GPA down

okay then, thanks

It’s not that easy, I took AP biology, chemistry and physics and then I realised I was flunking in other subjects trying to manage and study each of them regularly! So my advice: NEVER TAKE MORE THAN ONE AP CLASS! The most AP classes a person can take is up to 4! And he’d probably be dead!

Can you do something for 7th graders

I can’t take ap in my school or let alone in my province as far as I’m aware, the only thing that I can think of that’s hard is university level classes (that’s what they are called at least)

what about IB?

What about ASB?

My school is getting rid of ap classes

Nah, my Highschool doesn’t offer AP, and I feel like that’s something a lot of people forget about Highschool, there are so many clubs and activities and events, even transfer student programs that students really want to do but are unable to because their Highschool doesn’t offer the programs

im from india and we dont have any ap classes or anything like that, we just have one class so what do i do?

They won't give me any ap classes, I've begged them for years, now I'm a senior, why can't I take an ap class? I don't even have honors :(

what if i'm faced with choosing between CP and AP physics 1, and know i'll probably do a LOT worse in AP

Thanks for telling me. I'm a freshman in high school but my school is a IB one so right now I have only honors English and all others are basic. The highest level my school offers for freshmen and sophomore is honors. So basically I just had selected one so far, but I took biology honors earlier on this year, but I dropped out of it I was getting a d+ it was pretty hard. I'm in algebra right now but they have no honors for that just general ed. So I need your guys help. What are the easiest honors courses Besides math?

Welp, too late now. Never joined any clubs or sports. Never took any AP classes or anything even close to it, and now I'm in my senior year with only 2 more credits needed which is for class I'm taking currently, ELA IV.

At this point, I'll take my community college get a bachelor's degree in some type of business major, and get a sustainable job. I can't really handle ambitious stuff, especially since I know my limits, and I'm not that intelligent or smart at all.

I want to ask how do they look my grades if i am a international student our education system is different we don't choose classes

as someone who goes to one of the top universities in canada studying neuroscience please for the love of god don’t do this to yourself

in my grade 12 year i dropped a couple advanced level courses due to some personal stuff i was going through and it did not stop me from being accepted into the school

i know many people from all over the world who were not top of their class in highschool and were not massive over achievers and are still in the exact same place i am.

as someone with goals of one day being a doctor i remember how much fear people instilled into me and made me worry that no matter what i did i would never be good enough for the goal i was pursuing

ever since middle school i took the highest level versions of everything i could. i learned a second language, took advanced EVERYTHING, spent halloween, new years, my birthday studying my ass off to be at the top of my class because that’s what everyone told me i needed. but getting to university has made me realize that i didn’t need to do that to be here and be successful.

please don’t become a slave to your career too young. work hard but please explore all the opportunities available to you because that will be more valuable than any ap class

❤️

What should you do if the school you attend doesn't offer any sort of special course? I have all As, but I'm afraid colleges will overlook my application because there's no honors, AP, or other advanced classes on there.

i need help, i have really good grades(99.4 in 10th boards) but no real extra curriculum... i am in 11th grade, what do you suggest i do?

MIT admissions does not just look at your course load. Sure, taking high level classes looks good to admissions, but MIT tells its future applicants that they would rather you take classes you enjoy as well (music, for example) than to only take the high level classes. This is something I read directly from their website.

im from india and want to go to cambridge after 12th, is it possible?
Can u elaborate upon this a bit pls? thankyou in advance

I don't even want to get into an ivy league. All dem kids there have daddys money and the schools dont gaf about you unless every damn person knows youre incredibly smart or daddys money, they arent even that great