List of ECs

aaah_ha
Fri, 02 May 2008 23:16:02 +0000

I’m concerned about this, too.
I’m involved in theater, speech, tennis, newspaper, volunteering at local museum (related to what I want to be - museum curator or teacher/professor), working at a tennis club and I have an internship this summer. Is that too many activities? I really think I get something out of each one and I have a few leadership positions. I’m president of my school’s speech team and have won all-state honors. I am arts section editor for my school newspaper this year, will be news editor next year and hope to be editor-in-chief my senior year.

I would cut back on things because I’m way too swamped, especially this time of year, but I can’t do it. I like every thing I do. Theater allows me to kind of escape from reality, be someone totally different and meet tons of great people. I find tennis very relaxing and a good way to exercise, which is also why I chose to get a job relating to that. My internship also goes along with my interest in politics. And I volunteer at a museum that focuses on my favorite topic of history and my heritage.

I guess I have very diverse interests? But if I focus on one interest/activity, like you said, in an essay, would the long list still hurt me from getting into schools like Wesleyan University, Vassar, Grinnell, etc?