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07-06-2008, 09:24 PM
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#466 | | Junior Member
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| Colleges don't give a crap about middle school. | 
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07-07-2008, 11:26 PM
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#467 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Posts: 274
| I'm personally sick of people posting "your ECs are weak" when a person has some solid ECs. We can't all build schools in Zimbabwe and intern at Harvard Med over the summer, so ****.
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07-07-2008, 11:53 PM
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#468 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: West Philadelphia born and raised, on the playgrounds is where i spend most of my days
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| Would an online company count?
My friend and i have an online forum and company we have our own professional vids and layouts made by us.
youtube page.
not like a legit company obviously..
Would that count as starting own business? | |
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07-08-2008, 12:13 AM
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#469 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Jacksonville, Florida
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| It depends...do you actually engage in any sort of business or constructive projects? | |
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07-08-2008, 03:32 PM
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#470 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 168
| I don't think you could list an online company as a company unless it was legit or had some serious sponsors behind it. | |
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07-18-2008, 09:45 PM
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#471 | | Junior Member
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| What is TASP? | |
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07-27-2008, 07:39 PM
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#472 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: West Philadelphia born and raised, on the playgrounds is where i spend most of my days
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| Well, my friend and I just produce videos for people...
professional videos using After Effects.
we are making a website | |
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07-28-2008, 07:00 PM
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#473 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
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| Is being 20th in the nation in fencing in my age group a good ec for MIT | |
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07-28-2008, 07:01 PM
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#474 | | New Member
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| Is being 20th in the USA in fencing a good ec hook for MIT? | |
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07-28-2008, 07:02 PM
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#475 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 168
| It's alright, dont let that be your sole EC though. It's a good EC, but if that is the best EC you have then you're in trouble.
Is going on a mission trip for 1 week long enough to be counted as an EC? The trip is non religious and it's to help surgically repair kids with cleft pallets. I'll probably be helping change over rooms and assist with moving patients and registration. | |
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07-28-2008, 09:04 PM
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#476 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Virginia
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| Rh, I think you need to plead ignorance on this one. First of all, having only one serious activity is not a bad thing. For someone to be 20th in the country in a demanding, skilled sport (or in any sport) requires a tremendous amount of single-minded devotion that, combined with schoolwork, leaves little time for anything. Even more critical, it is not just "an EC;" It is a varsity sport at many of the top universities in the country (6 of the 8 Ivies, Stanford, Northwestern, Duke, Hopkins, Tufts and yes, MIT) and all of these schools recruit their athletes. Being in the top 20, I would think, should make you highly recruitable at least at some of those schools - and if you're a good enough student to even consider MIT, then it's likely that you would be competitive - even moreso as a recruited athlete - an all of the others. For better or worse, particularly in the Ivy League, being an athletic recruit puts you in a highly favorable position for admission (though less for a fencer than say, for a football player) | |
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08-03-2008, 01:32 PM
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#477 | | Junior Member
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| would ec's compensate for a lower gpa compared to the 4.0s? | 
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08-03-2008, 07:56 PM
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#478 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Florida
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| If the ECs are focused enough and not a laundry list, I'd say yes. When I say focused, I mean you actually try to do something with them, probably leadership position, some sort of award.
@Rh: It is true that that may actually be quite a good EC at the upper level schools, especially at 20th.
Hypothetically speaking, would it be better to do an internship (say NASA internship) over the summer or do volunteer work involving Boy Scouts. This is actually a conflict that may occur in the future, and I'm trying to figure out which would be the better choice. Right now, I'm thinking internship. Is this a decent EC list? ("focused five") I'm not planning on changing it, but wondering how it would be looked at. | |
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08-07-2008, 04:55 PM
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#479 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: mid-atlantic
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| Even if fencing is your sole EC, greenenhawk, the level you're at makes you recruitable. Not only that, but colleges will highly respect the devotion you've had to that sport. To be at that level is much more difficult that a school team and they understand that it involves a lot of time. If you've balanced that with a solid academic record, you're looking at the top schools, MIT included.
@computergeek, I agree that an internship would be more impressive. It promotes a specific interest of yours, while Boy Scouts is something that young men of every future career can partake in. Boy Scouts is a respectable organization that promotes a lot of good things, community service being one. But that doesn't stand out quite as much as getting a likely somewhat selective internship with a prestigious organization. | |
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08-08-2008, 01:23 AM
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#480 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Near Seattle, WA
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| madeinusa817: Thank you for calming my biggest worries of the past week... | |
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