<p>As a new member of this forum I love reading through the many threads and posts by various members of the college confidential community. But I have a question that i can’t seem to find answered yet. And that is too many extra curriculars on an admission app. I have seen some chance threads and they seem to be very impressive with almost a whole screen size of of extra curriculars. But as i read through them i begin to realize that some overlap and some others are purely income based. </p>
<p>For example, if one were to list they were class president, and then list they were class representative and then class officer which in my opinion sound like the same thing though i may be wrong, would admission officers count these three things as seperate or similar? Some threads have listed things like national forum of medicine ect ect and i am not familiar with these type of “national” level organization. I did some digging and these “forums” require an enormous amount of money to attend! Something many students do not have. I have also seen people list awards such as winner of class math competition, or science fair winnner and treasurer of five different school departments which i did some reading on their school website and the “five departments” actually fall under one department. </p>
<p>So this leads me to my question, do admission officers like or dislike a huge list of extra curriculars? They have tons of applications to read so i highly doubt they go in depth on the applications but to me, applications with huge lists of extra curriculars seem kinda…desperate? I am not sure if that is the right word but that is what it comes off to me as. I have about 5 extra curriculars that i do, a far cry from the list of 30 that i have seen but these 5 have taken up my time as if i had a child to take care of. But from a visual standpoint 5 is highly unimpressive compared to 30. Do admission officers care? Does it hurt more than help to pile it on with activities? Or should one go more carefully, picking out and combining activities that sound the same. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>