<p>Most of my ecs are only going to be for grades 11 and 12. I can talk passionately about what I have done, but how badly will this hurt me? I was partially to blame for not taking initiative, but I also moved to a new school sophomore year. This school was literally brand new as I will be a part of it’s first graduating class next year, and clubs didn’t actually start up until a year after the school had been established (which was during my junior year).</p>
<p>All colleges are far more interested in your stats than your ECs. For only a relative few colleges are ECs very important, and those are the most competitive colleges in the country – the ones that can afford to use ECs to pick and choose from among an overabundance of high stat applicants that most colleges gladly would accept.</p>
<p>When you say most competitive do you mean HYPSM, Cal Tech leve collegesl or colleges that are highly ranked but not as high (Carnegie, UCLA, USC, NYU etc.)?</p>
<p>The ECs are most important for HPYSM level colleges.</p>