Question About Extracurriculars

dblazer
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 04:45:18 +0000

@wongl0786 That’s exactly why such ECs like starting an initiative are so impressive - because there is no clear path towards how you would have achieved such a thing, it would be a true testament to your initiative and passion. I’m no expert either but you would approach it the same way you would approach anything else. Think of a concept, identify a target population (maybe students at a nearby school that don’t have the same opportunities), create an agenda, talk to appropriate school administrators, recruit students, and set something up. There are obviously a lot of hurdles that you would have to go through, but the best students forge on. Again, this is just one example of one of the many ways you could really stand out. You may well get into your top choices w/o any ‘extra’ ECs given your talent.

The book sounds nice but with an undertaking like that, it’s harder to quantify/qualify how ‘legit’ it ends up being so you have to be somewhat specific and think of a metric to be able to convey its quality. Somehow having it published somewhere (maybe on the web) or distributed by the school would legitimize the project vs a home-printing job for example. I hope you get what I mean…

Anyways don’t get me wrong - you are already on an excellent trajectory w/ your ECs and academics. I’m just being picky.