What NOT to include in your Additional Information section

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🎁 Instagram Giveaway on Borderless: get 500 coins to use on Borderless Platform

More details here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQgt8-CDixP/?img_index=1

👍 NEW story on Borderless

From Samarkand to Duke Kunshan in China: Asalya’s Story

by Asalya from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿

🔗Read the story: https://borderless.so/stories/from-samarkand-to-duke-kunshan-in-china-asalya-s-story

Sneak peek:
🧑‍🎓 Class of 2029
📊 GPA 3.9; SAT 1510; IELTS 7.5

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A reminder to work on your supplemental essays🙌 depending on the number/tier of universities, you might have between 10 and 50 supps😮‍💨

⭐️Opportunity Alert - Slingshot Challenge by the National Geographic

We believe that changing the future of conservation begins with small steps: with great ideas that drive impact in YOUR community. We believe that together, our ideas and actions will add up to progress protecting our planet and improving our future. We invite 13-18-year-olds to submit a 1-minute video describing their idea for solving environmental issues for a chance to receive up to $10,000 USD.

📌 Key Details:
- Eligibility: 13-18 years old
- Eligible countries: All
- Prize: $10,000 USD
- Submission deadline: February 6

🔗More details: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society/projects/slingshot/

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👍 NEW story on Borderless

My Road from Kazakhstan to Oregon: Lessons from Studying Abroad in the U.S.

by Aziz from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

🔗Read the story: https://borderless.so/stories/my-road-from-kazakhstan-to-oregon-lessons-from-studying-abroad-in-the-u.s.

Sneak peek:
🧑‍🎓 Class of 2029
📊 GPA 4.89/5.0; SAT 1520; IELTS 7.5
💰 Full-tuition scholarship

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🎓 Opportunity Alert - Non-Trivial Fellowship🇬🇧

The Non-Trivial Fellowship is an eight-week online program that enables talented young people to tackle crucial social issues. The Fellowship takes ambitious teens and gives them the resources, mentorship, and community to lead original, impactful research, policy, or entrepreneurial projects. Participants can apply for project grants (up to $1,000), and top research scholars receive scholarships between $2,000–$10,000

📌 Key Details:
- Eligibility: Ages 14-20, not currenty in university
- Eligible countries: All
- Scholarships are available
- Priority Deadline: December 22, 2025

🔗 For more details: https://www.non-trivial.org/programs/overview

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5 ways you can show Demonstrated Interest (without annyong the admissions team!)

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🚨We are giving free mentorship to content creators!

So if you love making content and you're also applying to US colleges this or next year, this could be perfect for you. We want to work with a few students who are excited to document their college application journey, show how they use Borderless, jump on trends and just make the whole process more fun

What you get: completely free mentorship with our counselors: 1 hour 1-1 sessions every two weeks, which is exactly what our current students get

To apply, you need to share a video on Instagram or TikTok about how you're using Borderless in your application journey. It can be a trend, a story time, a timelapse, green screen — whatever you want! Just make sure we can see your face

Use #borderlessCreator and tag us @borderless.so so we can find it

Deadline is November 20

I'm so excited to see what you guys create and hopefully we get to work together!💙