<p>This college fair is about to begin. I’m eager to see how it goes.</p>
<p>Is it just me or did spring break come early this year?</p>
<p>@satanonymous</p>
<p>I would, but I don’t judge ECs. Imo, as long as a person’s doing <em>something</em>… they’re fine.</p>
<p>I think we’ve all just been so busy that time just flew… I also have spring break in a few weeks (two weeks) and wow, that means almost done with junior year! phew, that’s a scary thought :O</p>
<p>Guys, stop worrying about ECs… At least you’re doing at least one thing you REALLY care about, you should be fine. For me though, I’m just worried because of my whole depression/mental breakdown/LD fiasco that makes me lack continuity in my ECs. But according to other people (not on CC) I show “lots of passion” for science…</p>
<p>Yeah, I think the importance of ECs are overplayed. When you have as much as some of the people who have posted their EC resumes worrying about them, you really don’t need to worry. </p>
<p>If you’re planning on going to a public school, even the good ones, they’re even less important from what I understand. Have a few clubs, a leadership position or two, some volunteer hours, and sports if you’re into them. Anything beyond that should pretty much be for your own personal growth/enjoyment.</p>
<p>I don’t have leadership in school. I was scared of upperclassmen freshman and junior years so I joined two clubs junior year and didn’t get a leadership position because literally the same kid is the president of every single club in the school. Luckily he’s a senior, but he probably has a replacement planned, lol.
I co-founded a book club at the library and I’ll have at least one internship by the time I graduate. A couple science camps and some volunteering this summer. So that’s something. </p>
<p>They don’t actually care about volunteer HOURS, do they? Because I don’t keep track of that.</p>
<p>^Not sure. I haven’t kept track since I reached my school’s requirement to graduate, but I could probably give a rough estimate. </p>
<p>I see some people in chance threads posting exact hours, though, so I don’t know. I’d say that for publics it probably doesn’t matter all that much.</p>
<p>I’m in love with Ohio State. I really am. That lady at the college fair made it sound like the best decision I could ever make is going there. It might actually be my 1st choice and I most likely won’t be rejected. I guess that’s what they mean when they say, love your matches and safeties.</p>
<p>JDancer & theradiostar- thanks for the suggestion, I am actually just a train ride away from Boston but who would I contact about a potential intership??</p>
<p>ecouter11- Not to sound dumb but what is a LoR??</p>
<p>^
Letter of Recommendation. </p>
<p>“I’m in love with Ohio State. I really am. That lady at the college fair made it sound like the best decision I could ever make is going there.”</p>
<p>Yay! That’s good to hear, because I could very well end up there.</p>
<p>I don’t lead, so I have no leadership positions.</p>
<p>I don’t track my hours, but have been told that I should. Probably would give a very wrong estimate if asked.</p>
<p>@Tinny: That’s great! Which aspect of the school is your favorite (if you have one)?</p>
<p>Probably their plethora of courses. Ohio State is the only school that I found, besides UIUC, that offers actuarial science major and a Korean major. I love the variety.</p>
<p>@heather Yay. :)</p>
<p>@Tinny Congrats, glad you found a place you like! Ohio State is a great school from everything I’ve heard about it. I think the best schools to fall in love with are your matches/safeties. </p>
<p>In fact, I don’t even have any reaches on my list. I guess you could argue UIUC might be a low reach since I’ll be applying to their engineering department, which is way more selective than their general admissions, but I’m still considering it a match since I’m in-state.</p>
<p>The only downfall, at least for me, with falling in love with a match or safety is the lack of an incentive to apply to any school but that one. With a reach, you apply to others because you know that you might not get in. With a match, it’s like, well I’m likely to get in and I would LOVE to go there, why waste money and time with other applications? But of course I’m applying to more because you never know.</p>
<p>“With a match, it’s like, well I’m likely to get in and I would LOVE to go there, why waste money and time with other applications?”</p>
<p>What’s wrong with that?
At this point, I’m moved on from my “I’m applying to 50 colleges!” phase and now I’m planning on applying to one reach, one match, and one safety. A lot of it is because I don’t feel like writing supplement essays. I’m good at writing narratives, but I’m not good at the “Why our school?” stuff because everything I write for those sounds made-up and annoying even when it’s true.</p>
<p>Because I don’t want to be in a situation where I ONLY apply to one school and get denied. But I definitely agree with the rest, I’m applying to like 5 schools maximum now. Most of these schools that I’m into are just phases, a few weeks ago I dreamed of going to an LAC. Now, I don’t even have an LAC on my list.</p>
<p>Well in my situation I haven’t really fallen in love with one school yet, so I’m applying to what I would consider 3 matches and 2 safeties (though the safety is probably my first choice to be honest). But yeah, I think it’s important to apply to a couple of schools at least, just in case.</p>
<p>I don’t mind essays so I don’t really care about how many schools I apply to in that regard. That being said, I can’t eliminate some schools simply because their programs are AMAZING in neuroscience and also since my chances are iffy either way</p>
<p>Hello, everyone. I don’t know how your junior years are going, but I can only hope (for your sakes) that you’re not experiencing the stress level that I am.</p>
<p>I used to be able to complete all my homework by midnight or so and go to bed at a reasonable hour. But since tennis started (a few weeks ago), not only is my available time severely truncated, but also my energy level is at absolute rock bottom.</p>
<p>Last week, I got a migraine on Thursday and had to miss school Friday as a result. Then on Saturday, I got another migraine. Never before have I had these awful headaches in such quick succession.</p>
<p>Last night, I went to bed at 4AM after having started work on my homework at 8PM (after my tennis match ran late). So yeah, barely any sleep.</p>
<p>And now, at 10:30PM, I find myself sitting on my bed, stripped of motivation. I have a lot of work due tomorrow, but my mind is fuzzy, and all I want is sleep.</p>
<p>It’s not uncommon for me to have five straight 2-3AM nights during the week now. It really doesn’t help that all my teachers seem to assign double the work this quarter.</p>
<p>Just three more months of this hell. And then I’ll be free.</p>
<p>^Yep that’s the plan lol.</p>
<p>Man I have the exact opposite problem of some of yall. I want to apply to basically everywhere in the top 20 xd</p>