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No extracurriculars but good reason?
SpotLight
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I'm a junior and high school and i have helped the drama crew for 1 musical and 1 play but that was just volunteer with a friend of mine. This year I spoke at the university of southern Maine about being an immigrant, again volunteer work. Now i haven't done any extracurricular activities but I have things at home that were more important and I'm wondering how can I tell colleges about this when I apply?
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Replies to: No extracurriculars but good reason?
The few colleges that do factor ECs into admission are top colleges like Harvard, which get such an overabundance of highs stat applicants that those colleges can pick and choose from among those to create an active class with a diversity of interests.
The colleges that do use ECs as admission factor regard things like having home responsibilities like having to take care of siblings while parents work as the equivalent to strong ECs.