<p>It takes a lot of effort and dedication to maintain a relationship for three years, especially in high school. On top of that, I have pretty good grades and other extracurriculars. Is maintaining a relationship for three years a solid extracurricular for my resume?</p>
<p>You must be joking.</p>
<p>No, and don’t write about it in your essay either.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why not.</p>
<p>Would you put “Married for 20 years” on a work resume?</p>
<p>I think XX55XX sums up my reaction nicely.</p>
<p>Well, you’ll definitely stand out.</p>
<p>thats a definite joke, i can just imagine him/her laughing right now as we post comments</p>
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<p>Better than volunteering over 9000 hours at the local hospital or founding AIDS shelters in Africa.</p>
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<p>That’s a real accomplishment–demonstrates maturity, earnestness, commitment, fidelity, financial savvy/security, ability to cooperate and negotiate with others, and so on.</p>
<p>"Is maintaining a relationship for three years a solid extracurricular for my resume? "</p>
<p>Well, you’ve gotten a chorus of answers that say No. It’s up to you to heed them or not. If you choose not to, please come back and report how successful a strategy it was.</p>
<p>If I were reading app files, yours would definitely be a head shaker…</p>
<p>straw grasper!!</p>
<p>In case you’re serious and the previous posts have been insufficient, I’ll add: don’t do it.</p>
<p>Read: Post #2.</p>
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<li><p>you have like 10 ECs and am captain/prez/leader in everything. you can add in additional info. “oh btw, i also had a gf for 3 years, solid committment” - YES</p></li>
<li><p>you have 2 ECs, no leadership. “oh btw, i had a gf for 3 years, committment blah blah” FAIL</p></li>
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<p>You all failed to mention WHY this is a bad idea. I doubt it would harm me. If anything, it will make my application stand out.</p>
<p>Your application would stand out in this manner: 1) this dude is really grasping for straws 2) “Who is he trying to fool?”</p>
<p>But you definitely seem determined to buck all of our conventional advice. Let us know what happens.</p>
<p>You don’t get it, do you?</p>
<p>I thought it was a joke. Now you are starting to scare me.</p>
<p>A girlfriend is only an EC to your parents 
Congrats though on maintaining a relationship for 3 years, that is hard to do. But…colleges like to see something on your essay that is out of the ordinary on the essay, something that stands out and makes you different from the other thousands of applicants. (GF’s are not out of the ordinary, not even long term ones, many kids have that). Look for another hardship, life changing event, academics challenge etc. Besides, if a college sees your tied to a person, they may not accept you just on the fact you might not stay at their school if it you can’t stand to be away from that person (that is just what I would say to myself if I was reading the app) anyway good luck with everything!</p>
<p>Do it, I like it. I think you could do something cool with it.</p>
<p>Of course this is a joke. It’s in the Cafe.</p>
<p>I can’t believe this is on the front page of CC. Now all these parents are going to read this and take the OP seriously and post in this thread.</p>