<p>Hi,
How does it look if a student with straight As has done almost no EC during the first 3 years of high school and does 5 new activities in his/her senior year?</p>
<p>Does it count against that student?</p>
<p>Er–yes. Especially if you’re doing early action, it looks like you’ve just joined activities to put on the application. Also, being a newbie in a bunch of clubs doesn’t demonstrate any leadership potential.</p>
<p>yea, that’s what people call resume padding. It looks like you only joined the clubs last minute because you realized that colleges want ECs.</p>
<p>just fyi, that’s not me. I was just wondering…</p>
<p>I ahave a question though. I have to choose between choir and student council to put in my EC section. I have just one spot but two activities left.
I have been in choir for 4 years now but I have only been in student council one year during junior year.</p>
<p>which one would be more favorable? This wouldn’t be cheating the system, right?</p>
<p>Neither is more favorable. Do the one you’ll enjoy most.</p>
<p>Put choir and put Student Council in the Additional Info section if you’ve done a lot for it.</p>
<p>going back to the first topic…
so it actually hurts to do all that during senior year?</p>
<p>yeah, as 1 poster said, it’s called “resume padding”. having no ecs also hurts, so if you’re in that situation in senior year, you’re kinda screwed :(</p>
<p>oooo,
as i said, that is not my case but I am seeing that this happens in my high school with my classmates. Since I have been participating in activities through out my high school years, I wanted to know if their ECs are considered the same way as mine…
Good to know that they won’t haha</p>
<p>is dat sum schadenfreude ? :O</p>
<p>sorry,
didnt mean to do that.
I didnt want to be mean but I really worked hard on my ECs and I was really upset that they were being very sneaky about the whole thing. </p>
<p>Im just glad that my work will be looked at differnetly than the others’</p>
<p>haha, don’t worry, noone’s here to judge you.</p>