I need my sanity back... Please help out!

AsianAlly
Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:22:26 +0000

@SouthernHope

Haha thanks! I’m just as surprised to be honest!

For the ECs that I put down (they only allow five), I mentioned the following:


JROTC (9th-12th): I was commissioned to a Cadet Lieutenant Colonel (second to the highest rank) and was promoted to the head of the S-2 Staff Section: Information and Current Affairs. My school has been around since 1902 and I am the first to have this position, so I was given the opportunity to develop its responsibilities and much more, so one of the things I did was revamped the school’s newsletter that was last published in 1991. I redesigned it and really made it my own. I’m also technically 5th in command of an entire brigade of 300+ cadets. Our JROTC program is also the best within our region.
Spanish Club (10th-12th): Our Spanish Club takes a trip down to St. Augustine every year and we have salsa dancing classes. This year, we upped the ante, and decided to help out an orphanage down in Mexico, as well as planned a traveling art show for our school. We also help plan out International Day at school.
Leo Club (11th-12th): I co-founded this club along with one of my friends. I was vice president and now a board member. It’s sponsored by Lions’ Club International and its purpose is to help find community service opportunities for us guys (all-boys school), since we have to meet a certain community service requirement to graduate. Lots of us aren’t really trying too hard in volunteering and this club has really helped some of them out, because we do everything together as a team, as brothers, so we all of have so much fun helping out the community! Also, this club is ran by Juniors, because it seemed to us that Seniors ran everything at school. We wanted to give opportunities for everyone to be a leader. But aside from all of this, I wrote the constitution and planned out the meetings.
Yearbook “The Sabre” Staff (11th-12th): I’m the Editor-in-Chief this year and I’ve been pretty upset with the past yearbooks, since we have such a rich history here at this school and every single year, all of the editors just simply reused the old templates. Yearbook isn’t an elective for us either, so it’s kinda just my adviser and I doing everything. Regardless! I completely redesigned all 240 pages of the yearbook by myself!
Math Team (12th): I was on a frenzy of starting new clubs, since my school puts a lot of emphasis on sports, so kids like me, who aren’t too athletic, don’t have much to do after school hours. So I decided to start up a Math Team, since it was one of the things that I enjoyed most back in middle school.


So those are my ECs! Not too impressive to be honest with you. A little bit on the generic side. But to be honest with you, the way I see ECs, it’s not just about being a leader or showing leadership, it’s also about making a leader out of someone and giving them the opportunity to explore and unlock their true potential. Maybe my volunteer service, class rigor, and personal statement made me stand out just a teensy bit… Who knows?