My high school plan, input and suggestions, please :)

N_s_Mom
Sun, 02 Aug 2015 13:55:14 +0000

“ECs: beta, nhs, fbla, varsity tennis (very likely), art club, possibly debate & graphics, various summer camps
volunteering: children’s hospital (40h), geometry tutoring, library, FISH”

To repeat what has been said elsewhere on CC, when it comes to ECs, it’s about depth not breadth. This is a boring laundry list of generic ECs. No one cares if you are NHS, beta, tennis, art, etc…And no, volunteering is not required (except maybe by your school or school district). Find the two or at most three things you care about and focus your efforts. If something you try isn’t interesting to you, drop it and try something else. If there is even one thing on this list that you really care about, want to invest energy in, and can develop some expertise in, then you’ve just improved your chances of 1) having a good experience 2) learning something valuable 3) meeting some interesting people you might not otherwise meet, 4) having some balance in your life and distant 5) sounding interesting enough in a college application to catch the eye of someone handling admissions for a selective school.