Ivy League Schools Extracurricular

Coloradomama
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:11:55 +0000

I disagree with @compmom. I have seen a student who started a hip hop club and really got about 40 kids dancing, in a good way get into Stanford, and enroll. She still dances her heart out!
. She was both an extraordinary dancer, and an extraordinary leader,
who really could demonstrate both to Stanford. Leadership as exemplified by starting something, can mean a lot to both interviewers, and admissions committees, but one must be following one’s bliss to really do well at starting anything from scratch. Its not easy to start a high school club and get a following. One has to do something above and beyond to get into many colleges, today but much of it is geographic chance, being first generation, or being the correct race, so don’t get set on any one school, as you just don’t know in advance if you will fill a bucket they need.

Focus on fit, but wait until you actually have interests and then you will know better. As a sophomore its hard
to know if MIT is even a fit, so don’t worry about it so much.

For fit with MIT, do you really want to take hard biology, chemistry and physics? If not, find a school that fits? Every student at MIT does the same core science, program, even the philosophers and urban planners and architecture majors.

Some students just don’t want to work that hard on the sciences. Find a school that fits what you want to learn.
Focusing on fit will eliminate a lot of schools, and if it eliminates MIT, thats OK too.