Not Taking "Extracurricular" Activities

blisseh
Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:11:03 +0000

I was recently approached by my vice principal, my former English teacher, about my lack of involvement in Extracurricular activities, and I was told that if I didn’t join anything, it would really hurt my chances of getting scholarships and being accepted to higher ranked colleges. I find this very dishearting, given the fact that there are no extracurricular activities I am interested in besides Media Arts, which I quit last year, because of the terrible execution of the class. Another reason I left is because I wanted to focus on language learning, something I really enjoy doing. That counts as something right? I mean, for the past year or so I have really worked hard to get my Korean to where it is now, a solid intermediate, and I am thinking about taking a proficiency test for it sometime next year. I also started Russian a few weeks ago, and I have gained a more or less decent Upper Beginner level(A2) of German through very passive and casual study over the past five months.
Coupled with that, I also get mostly A’s(all high B’s, except for one 80 in Algebra/Trig Honors for one marking period, but never C’s and below). I am a sophmore, going to be a junior next year, and I will be taking two AP classes(History, Literature), along with Language Arts Honors III[I’m literally not going to have a life next year lol…], and AP Calculus course during my senior. And top of that, I’m hoping that I will also be able to participate in a program that my school offers, which allows seniors to leave school after the first half of the day to work, since my family is struggling financially, and a little extra money would be nice. With all of that being said, are my chances of getting in a good college with a scholarship or even a few scholarships really that bad?