<p>What are the most unique extra curricular activities that you have heard that people apply with?</p>
<p>I’ve heard:
<p>NaNoWriMo (national novel writing month)
raising $5,000 by selling cupcakes</p>
<p>I actually think I may participate in NaNoWriMo. Even start a club at school about it. It seems really fun.</p>
<p>Luging. Got the applicant into Stanford.</p>
<p>what is luging?</p>
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<p>I’ve actually seen several people on this site say they’ve done nanowrimo. There’s also a napowrimo (poetry) for anyone who’s interested!</p>
<p>These are all activities done by various people in my school:</p>
<ol>
<li>EMT member</li>
<li>Internship in a radiology clinic</li>
<li>Lead singer/actor (very unusual for an Asian)</li>
<li>Breakdancer (me 
hopefully this is unique)</li>
<li>Varsity hockey captain (again, very unusual for an Asian dude)</li>
</ol>
<p>@JustSmile: What do you mean “got him in to Stanford?” Was he underqualified in other aspects of his application or something?</p>
<p>I think JustSmile means that luging added uniqueness to his application and he was accepted to Stanford, not that he wasn’t underqualified.</p>
<p>lol not sure how much luging he’ll be doing in stanford weather.</p>
<p>Off season training for Lugers is a lot of strength training and swimming. Their upper body strength is unbelievable. They also train in wind tunnels with wind up to 90mph keeping them stationary.</p>
<p>It wasn’t that he was under-qualified, it was that he was just like every other applicant --with a good GPA, good standardized test scores, everything you’d expect in an average Stanford applicant–but the fact that he was extremely dedicated to luging was what made him stand out.</p>
<p>Besides, how many people do you know who luge?</p>
<p>Clam farting by far.</p>
<p>tap dancing! </p>
<p>lol, I don’t know if it is that unique but my daughter is very good at it! Been tapping for 14 years now.</p>
<p>Unique clubs. I’ve heard of one girl being the leader of Tea Club. Or clubs that have in goofy/intellectual speakers.</p>
<p>In terms of how many people do it? Governor of a JSA region. Hard to do and there’s only a few of you.</p>
<p>@porkandsand; I don’t really consider those kinds of clubs extracurriculars though…</p>
<p>I know an Indian guy who’s a DJ. He has a big enough family network that he makes big money doing weddings and parties for them. He buys all his own equipment and has his own website.</p>
<p>I know another guy who’s a band promoter, and because we live in-between two very large cities, he’s able to book a lot of big metal, DnB, Dubstep and other-type bands for local concerts and stuff.</p>
<p>Both of them are pretty cool. They seem pretty passionate about what they do.</p>
<p>I’ve been breeding guppies and I hope to eventually sell them to Local Pet Stores and AquaBid.com to earn a little extra cash, but lately I’ve been bogged down with getting the water quality and feeding right. :|</p>
<p>well my ec was pretty impressive and different, I basically met the first family and volunteered for a whole day with Obama and Michelle and the children. I got tons of pictures and put one of them on my Commonapp supplement. So this was very different… probably why i got into soo many good schools with a low SAT score</p>
<p>Mohamed, if you don’t mind me asking, where are you going? I don’t really consider a one-time thing an EC, but that’s really cool!</p>
<p>Mohamed that is absolutely incredible, though I’d have to agree with toystoryfan since it was only one-time. Would you mind sharing how you were able to get such an amazing opportunity?</p>