jaw

ok...So i an African American and my first choices are UVA, UNC and Cornell.

Middle States Accreditation Student Commitee Representative - I saw selected to be the student representative in my school's Accreditation Process. This lasted about three years.

http://www.css-msa.org/
Spanish CLub Secretary -self explanatory

U.S. Dept of Education Intern- 40 hours a week for 10 weeks

Community Service Tutoring - tutoring kids at my elementary school 100 hrs


Track and Field Team - ran in the 200 and 400m and did long and high jump (grades 9-11)

Mutlicultural Student Alliance Secretary- self explantory


National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine -got me interested in a career in Medicine/Biology

Job at grocery store during school year- 15 hours a week

Alpha Phi Alpha Leadership Devleopment Insittute-
http://www.alphaphialpha.net/alpha/t...jects/lti.html


Awards



National honor Society

Spanish Honor Society

A few track Awards

De La Salle Scholars Program-basically I am in the top of my class and get a $6,000 scholarship annually
http://www.stjohns-chs.org/course_catalog/scholars.html

Nomination for Washington Metropolitan Scholars

Enn

A job and diverse ECs.

goodcolleges

i hope i'm o the right track with those

mtf612

okay Im a california student looking for EC help. Im currently an incoming 10th grader so I have time for my ecs to pan out and grow. But considering I have only one year of high school AND have started some things that will occur this year already, what do you guys think?

Note: I want to go to MIT or caltech for computer engineering or computer science (ive yet to decide as i love computer hardware more than software at this point but im begging to like programming. Hell i may ditch bussiness(as a possible double major) and take both!


ECs :

* Plan on over 100 hours of community service (20 already)

* Became comptia A+ certified (certified pc technician) at 15

* Getting a job at the geek squad my 10th-11th grade summer (may stay much longer, and i have already secured the job)

*Business and IT (Computer technician emphasis) Academy student 10-12
---Academy program includes job shadowing, internships, and interviews of professionals. Also includes field trips to businesses, museums, libraries etc focused on my topic. My focus is on computers and business (however at any time if i choose I may go into the engineering academy)

*Creator and President of FCEF (future computer engineer forum) This is a club i am making this year (10th grade) where we discuss new and upcoming technologies and design (realistic) products ourselves. We even try and sell one product to a company (like toshiba, samsung, lg, etc. every semester!)

*Creator and President of TOHS donation club. I am also creating this club (this year) where every 4 weeks we will run a donation drive to help those in need. At the same time we collect boxes from every class room for food donations every 2 weeks. Proceeds go to food share. I have a partner ship with food share already.

*National honor society (member) (requires 3.5 gpa and leadership skills)

* Member of CSF (requires 3.5gpa and 10 hours of com. service a semester)

* Created websites for both of my clubs fcef and tohsd.

EC’s Cant really count...yet

*Summer program (not sure which yet) 11-12th grade summer

* Plan on taking more technician tests from comptia.org(network+, project+,etc)

*Starting to program so ill have some programming ECs hopefully!

* Was 5th class president, not sure if colleges care because some people say it does matter while other say they don’t really consider it a good sign of leadership

mtf612

BTW i forgot one on my post above. This year i am taking mass media as an EXTRA course for my schedule. I might trade it out for web page design IF it is uc accepted (anyone know?) . Webpage desing is considered a club and class at my school.

fhimas88888888

Please read the above discussions. Your national honor society and honor roll are expected. They go into the laundry list pile. Colleges (like MIT) expect that your GPA will be high and if you don't have those awards, they'll expect your school didn't give them. Getting an award for having a high GPA is meaningless. Your community service isn't great, but your job experience is. Also your work with organizing groups may help you. I'd definitely recommend using your math talents and entering Siemens.

goodcolleges

i was the beginning posts and people said being on the school board is a great EC and in my in post #151...i said

which was like my school's school board..so does that look really good

bunnyturtle

the post from a few pages back said something about giving points based on what activities you do. i have a question about that; so if being a captain of a sports team gives you points but participating doesn't, isn't that somewhat unfair? there are plenty of times when more than one person qualifies to be captain yet choices had to be made. just because someone wasn't doesn't mean they don't have what it takes to be or that they didn't try. besides, do colleges really want their entire class to all be, say, soccer team captains and such? whatever happens to diversity then? wouldn't a passionate participant of a non-varsity sport or some other kind of less-recognized ec provide more diversity and just as much passion and ability (if not possibly more)?

fhimas88888888

Sure, it's unfair. But you have to suck it up. There are a lot of unfair things that happen to arts students when they compete. Many times in art competitions, there are a number of people that deserve first place, but it comes down to subjectivity. Of all the ways to lose, subjectivity is probably the worst.

If you're truly passionate about a sport, you would love it so much that you would enjoy devoting your time to it which in turn would bring you up to varsity level play. Passion means you devote a large amount of time to an activity - it's impossible to devote a lot of time to practicing soccer and not get any better. Let's face the facts, someone not participating in a varsity sport will not have as much ability as a varsity player (unless the non-varsity player were participating just for the exercise or weren't serious about it).

I'm sorry to be so blunt, but giving you the answers that you probably want to hear wouldn't be doing you any favors.

GOODCOLLEGES - yes, if the school elected you to the position, and you were the student representing the HS student body, that is definitely something to put in the app. Clearly, your entire HS or at least the admin think very highly of you. It's not a 'hook,' but definitely something of importance.

bunnyturtle

yet keep in mind that there are sports that compete in national competitions yet arent listed as varsity; just the name varsity itself doesnt necessarily mean all that. though thanks for the bluntness, i really appreciate it.

ag54

at my s's school, captains are elected by the team so they qualify as "elected" positions. I guess if they were appointed, it would be less fair, but unfortunately, life isn't fair, especially in the game of high stakes college admissions. If you compete nationally in your sport, I would think that will stand out as much as any captain position, elected or not.

jkid

Don't mind if I just jump into the discussion?

How are my EC's? Most of them are journalism related, and I spend a lot of time volunteering (I know they aren't the same thing, but I'm really active with it)

Here they are:


I..

- am Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook, co-Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper, an editor of the literary magazine.
- am a photographer for yearbook and newspaper.
- am on the Design Team for yearbook, newspaper and the literary mag.
- was previously a reporter, an entertainment writer and a copy editor for the newspaper
- write for 2 local papers, the Fresno Bee (regular contributor, paid) and the Sanger Herald (freelance, paid)
- attended a selective 10-day journalism workshop/conference put on my the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund (Central California High School Journalism Workshop) and was a staff writer and photographer
- was selected nationally (and the only person from the West Coast in 3 years) for Channel One News' Student-Produced Week 2006 (Web Editor)
- am involved in school theatre, have been cast in 2 productions and worked stage crew for another
- also take classes at a performing arts school outside of my high school (stage combat, drama/acting/theatre, ballet, folklorico dancing and guitar)
- am a member of Drama Club, Interact Club, S Club, Newspaper Club and Photography Club. I hold a leadership position in newspaper club and photo club
- am a member 2 honor societies, one being California Scholarship Federation. I am a recycling volunteer and an English tutor through CSF.

volunteer-related:
- am a Vacation Bible School teacher for 2 VBS's in the summer and a Catechism education aide every Sunday
- a member of 2 religious youth groups and hold leadership positions in both. Through these, I am also a lector, and an extraordinary minister of the Eucharist every Sunday. I'm also an altar server
- spend 2 hours a week writing press releases and grant requests for a non-profit organization
- spend 3 hours a week tutoring at a local church
- spend 1 hour every 2 weeks reading at the library and putting on puppet shows
- am a hospital volunteer at 2 hospitals


Thanks for any suggestions....

Northstarmom

jkid and others looking for responses to your own ECs:

You'll get more responses if you start your own thread because then your post will stand out.

fhimas88888888

Yes,

As we've said before, you'll get many more responses with an INDIVIDUAL THREAD!!!

goodcolleges

i was appointed VP of SPanish CLub yesterday.....yay...leadership lol