Well, I did get into Stanford... but I've always felt insecure about my ECs:
-I've never won any contest... though I've advanced to the semifinalist stage in both of the only two I have entered, the Young Playwrights Festival 2006 National Playwriting Competition and National Merit Scholarship.
-I can boast no athletic talent or accomplishment, besides being one of the founding members of a now-dissolved community fencing club. Unless being the worst varsity XC runner in Western Washington counts for anything... which it doesn't.
-I'm not, nor have I have been, an elected officer or founder of any school organization. I've never run for office--ASB is a joke at my school. I am Drama Club Treasurer, but that's only because the Drama Club Dictator (the adviser) has mandated that
everybody in the club is either treasurer or secretary.
-Drama is among my top 3 ECs (along with foreign languages and creative writing), but even there I've only acted in one play and was a volunteer stagehand in a second. After I submitted my Stanford EA application I became the head audio technician for another play and secured the lead role in yet another, but Stanford never knew about those.
-I haven't done a significant amount of community service at all, though I do enjoy volunteering a great deal. Me
enjoying it doesn't matter though; actions are what count.
...So I said I'd change my ECs. Not that I guess I needed to.
