Club or Summer Program?

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My target school is the University of Washington (Seattle) and I’m currently a junior in high school doing running start. This year I am in 4 clubs : HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America), TSA (Technology Student Association), Key Club, and National Honor Society.

Next year (my senior year) I plan to continue doing full time running start as well as the same 4 clubs I’m doing this year. However, I’m considering applying for LINK Crew next year as a 5th club because it sounds interesting to me and would show leadership. But I also just got accepted into Camp Neuro which is a one week health/medical exposure camp that takes place at the University of Washington.

What sucks is I can either choose one of the other because they have conflicting dates and I have no idea which one to pick! I like the idea of LINK Crew because of the whole leadership thing it would be fun and look good on college applications. But I also really want to do Camp Neuro because I want exposure to what a career in health would be like considering that’s the field I want to go into. But the thing is there are various other health camps I could easily apply to but Camp Neuro is guaranteed because I already got in. But if I take a chance and apply to other camps and get in then I could do both LINK Crew and a medical camp…but the LINK Crew application is due in 2 days so I have no idea what to do!

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

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Additional Info: A big influence in my decision would be which colleges would like to see better? Another school club or a summer program?

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I don’t think that colleges care really…they care that you are doing something productive with your summer.
What else would you do for the rest of the summer?

Just because the camp is at the college won’t give you a leg up, but it will expose you to the university so you can check it out. Also I would start volunteering in a medical setting (usually at a hospital) to also see if you like the medical health settings. Try to start in the summer.
You shoudl do the one you really want to do, not the one you think will “look good”.