Advice for a rising senior?

Lunex
Thu, 21 Apr 2022 20:42:34 +0000

Current junior here, planning on applying to some pretty competitive colleges in the 2023 application cycle. These are probably dumb questions but oh well.

First: I plan on starting a science club at the local elementary school (my old school, actually) next fall; I still need to contact the principal for approval but I know that clubs are very very rarely disapproved. This is something I actually want to do because I never had the opportunity to do science activities until high school and that’s obviously not optimal. However does starting an EC right at the beginning of senior year “look bad”? I know consistency is key, and this isn’t very consistent lol.

Next, how can I improve my relationships with my teachers in the month and a half I have left of school? The two teachers I’m planning on asking for letters both did evaluations for me for COSMOS and UCD YSP - I was a COSMOS waitlist and UCD YSP admit, so I assume they were at least decent, but I never read them… I’ve been a consistent participant in class, ask questions, etc since I genuinely enjoy their classes a lot. Also, do people ever ask senior year only teachers for letters? Does it ever work out?