Am I Ivy League material?

glassesarechic
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:21:25 +0000

The only thing is you will have to find a way to tie in DECA and your Bio major together… You said you are writing for a newspaper and then you are in DECA and you like Bio. So my only thing would be make sure you have a clear passion next year when doing your essays



Nah. Colleges are looking for bright, accomplished, interesting people. Passion, however, is overrated: it’s amorphous and immeasurable. You don’t need to tie everything you do together in a neat little box. For what it’s worth, my main ECs were debate and creative writing. Some schools latched onto the “girl in debate” thing, others onto the arts. Many of my peers had similarly diverse interests (and, hey, Natalie Portman was both a national science award winner and an actress before attending Harvard–hardly compatible interests).