<p>How many hours do you need? Is 200 enough?</p>
<p>Are my ECs sufficient?</p>
<p>Eagle Scout
Piano since age 5 (But I suck…)
Rotary Interact founder/president, potentially a future governor of the district.
National Honor Society
Academic Decathlon team in tenth (But I’m not doing it again.)
I did Journalism in 9th, but I didn’t like it.</p>
<p>Your EC’s are decent, nothing outstanding aside from the Rotary Interact.
200 hours is great if that was all at one place, shows commitment. 25 here, 30 there shows nothing to officers.
If you’re a junior, run from NHS pres next year.</p>
<p>^
I’m Asian, should I try to add something else? What would be good? I also don’t have any major awards unless I win some medals at Academic Decathlon and qualify for National Merit and AP Scholar. I’m a sophomore.</p>
<p>I don’t know what I could add that I would actually be passionate about.</p>
<p>Yale has no formal community service requirement, and racking up hours of community service is not the key to admission. Yale is looking for applicant who have contributed to the broader community, engaged beyond the classroom in some meaningful way. There are many ways to do this without doing formal community service.</p>