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r/ApplyingToCollege

1.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 502 upvotes, which works out to 0 per 1,000 members.

0peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.3Mmembers
502best post
631most comments
304posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Text 55% Question 45%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Application Question 110 Advice 52 College Questions 52 Discussion 14 ECs and Activities 13 Personal Essay 12 Course Selection 8 Financial Aid/Scholarships 7 Letters of Recommendation 7 Serious 6

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Should I convert to Mormonism for cheap tuition?

↑ 502 💬 192 question 2026

Financial aid isn’t fit for upper middle class class households, and I have the right to be mad about it

↑ 348 💬 631 text 2026

PSA: "First in my family to do Undergrad in the US" does not mean First Gen

↑ 279 💬 56 text 2026

Olivia Zhang - spin off - Researched Claims/Documented Inconsistencies

↑ 150 💬 64 text 2026

Ranked 1, but my school is making an issue out of it.

↑ 88 💬 74 text 2026

NEW 2027 Niche Rankings: Best Colleges in America

↑ 82 💬 147 text 2026

Strongly recommend this new episode of "Inside the Yale Admissions Office"

↑ 78 💬 20 text 2026

3rd grade suspension, should I mention it in my apps?

↑ 78 💬 16 question 2026

Turns Out Getting Rejected By My Dream School Isn't End Of World

↑ 69 💬 14 text 2026

sometimes i see posts here and check my calendar hoping it's wednesday

↑ 69 💬 5 text 2026

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/ApplyingToCollege, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.