I’m in my freshman year of high school and I haven’t joined any clubs. I do plan to join some next year. However would it look good or as an extra curricular at all if I did music production? It’s my number 1 hobby/passion and I do it almost every day outside of school. I’m hoping that since I haven’t done any kind of clubs that maybe this could fill the void at all? I might consider making a club for this kind of thing or something else next year.
It is very hard to know what university admissions will think.
To me this looks very good. It shows significant personal initiative. This could also be useful to high school students who are musically talented. For example, many musically talented students would be very happy years later to have a well produced CD of their music.
I would suggest figuring out how to turn “does EDM for fun” into more for college.
Check out “How to be a High School Superstar” by Cal Newport.
“The basic message of the book is this: Don’t wear yourself out taking as many classes as you can and being involved in every club and sport. Instead, leave yourself enough free time to explore your interests. Cultivate one interest and make it into something special that will make you stand out among the other applicants and get you into the toughest schools, even if your grades and scores aren’t stellar. Newport calls this the “relaxed superstar approach,” and he shows you how to really do this, breaking the process down into three principles, explained and illustrated with real life examples of students who got into top schools: (1) underscheduling—making sure you have copious amounts of free time to pursue interesting things, (2) focusing on one or two pursuits instead of trying to be a “jack of all trades,” and (3) innovation—developing an interesting and important activity or project in your area of interest. This fruit yielded by this strategy, an interesting life and real, meaningful achievements, is sure to help not only with college admissions, but getting a job, starting a business, or whatever your goals.”
http://www.examiner.com/review/be-a-relaxed-high-school-superstar
So what could you do to make EDM stand out more?
Can you get published?
Can you start a club for EDM in your school to show others how to do it?
Can you “perform” at the school dance?
Can you teach others?
Can you make a business out of this?
Figure out how to turn this into a leadership opportunity.