ECs on college apps?

sqdwfe13
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:47:50 +0000

So, I’m a junior.

I do have a few extracurriculars that are mostly student-government-related that I’ve been doing since freshman year, but I’m not like really involved in them like my involvement in them doesn’t actually meddle with my academics, I just go to meetings a few times a month and complete tasks like once a week. I would be more involved if the student government actually had stuff for me to be involved in and had more meetings for me to go to, but that’s beyond my discretion. I still spend the vast majority of my time doing schoolwork and stuff, so I feel like I shouldn’t put my extracurriculars down if I’m not SUPER involved in them. I feel like I’m cheating out my fellow applicants when the time comes for college applications, who probably put a lot more work into their extracurricular activities than I did into mine (Seriously, the type of involvement and commitment I see from kids at my school and on College Confidential is amazing and makes me feel pathetically lazy). Should I just not put them down at all…? I feel like I’m going to be lying or something by saying I was involved in them. However I’m a junior and this would mean I would have zero extracurriculars to put down from my first 3 years of high school. I actually did work…it’s just…not a lot, even though the little work I’ve been doing has had a fairly great impact on student government affairs. So, how much is this going to hurt me?