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i'll definitely be referring people to this if they want to know how their ECs stack up

HisGraceFillsMe

Would someone be willing to tell me how you think I stack up?

EC's:
-I was a member of the Women's Varsity golf team for 3 years
-I have been singing for school for the past 9 years and with my church for 3 years. I am involved in the top choir at my school and we have traveled to San Francisco State for a festival and to Jamestown with other choirs from my District for the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Jamestown.
-I have been involved in musical theatre for 7 years
-I am a Co-Chair for the club at my school called GirlsTalk, a club for girls (obviously) to discuss various issues from current events to safe weight loss/gain to pregnancy..pretty much everything under the sun.
-I have been on the Cultural Assembly Committee for 2 years
-I participated in the Invisible Children Club this year (Invisible Children is an organization helping to resolve the issue of child soldiers in Northern Uganda)


I've also received several academic and other awards, including:
-Medal of Merit Nomination (English)
-3 Science Awards of varying levels (Meteor, Comet, Nova)..there are 6 possible awards that can be earned
-Most Dedicated Player (golf team)
-Junior Varsity and Varsity golf letters
-Choir letter
-Outstanding English Student
-Outstanding Modern World History Student

starburst1191

do what you love, not what you think adcoms will LOVE. its that simple. i do a lot of stuff that isn't prestigious and is just for me. i havent won awards for it but i love it. thats something that you can write about in your essays with genuine passion. theres no limit to how great your ECs could be. from what i've read on this site it seems like there is always someone who is smarter, more outgoing, more involved in the community, a better leader, has more academic awards...the only way you're going to get noticed is by being yourself.

Misfit Soul

Activities:
Newspaper- page editor/reporter
Key Club- member, past Secretary, current President- I am planning to run for a District position for the 08-09 school year.
Mock Trial- Lead Attorney 2+
Attorney in the 1st Providence Academy of Law and Leadership-comp's in a few months so I don't know how well I will do yet
PreMed-Prevet: 1
NHS: expected 2 years (they begin accepting Junior year)
Work exp: Insurance Office Assistant- 1 year
Volunteering- various organizations
Piano: 7- competitions, on the national list
Tutoring
Sports: outdoor/intramural
Published Author- short stories
Spanish
French(introductory)
Russian(introductory)
Vietnamese

How do they stack up? Thanks in advance.

caligurl

Activites: (i am a junior)
Indian Club-2 yrs(in 3rd)
Key Club-2 yrs (in 3rd)
Science Olympiad (joined this year)
American Red Cross(joined this year)
J.S.A(joined this year)
Nerd Herd(joined this year)
planning:
volunteering for public library
March of Dimes(have done before)
ACS member
summer job
tutoring elementary students
volunteering for hospital

Sheed30

what do you want to know?????????????

caligurl

what colleges would accept me?

Sheed30

And how will we know that just from your activities? ECs are like a MAX of 15% of your application....we don't know anything by just your ECs

dchow08

Oh wow...

You guys are seriously going crazy over this extracurricular stuff.

"A parent once asked Dean Hargadon which activities would be most helpful in getting her son into Princeton--going to Harvard summer school, doing community service work in Honduras, or teaching English in China? The dean responded that the son should 'pump gas.' It's not what you do in the summer that counts, it's what you learn from what you do."

-Winning the Heart of the College Admissions Dean

So everyone, stop stressing out over this!

DwightEisenhower

I read in a newspaper article that adcoms are becoming less and less impressed with phony summer jobs. A lot of them, even in higher-tier schools, scooped ice cream and flipped burgers during their high school summers. It's easy to say "Intern at Brown & Smith Law Firm" is more "impressive" than working at Dairy Queen, but all most interns do anyway is file papers mindlessly. A lot of adcoms are aware of this.

caligurl

I agree with you dchow8!

caligurl

thanks Sheed30! My friend had told me that ECs are 30% so I was stressing about whether or not my ECs are good enough.

eternitygoddess

I think it is RIDICULOUS for people to have more than 5 EC's.

If I was admissions officer, I'd be thinking you're stacking things up a bit.

caligurl

that's right

moodathis

ending global warming or world hunger (both for hyps)