Rate my Extra Curriculars

surgeofindia14
Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:55:51 +0000

Listen, there’s no such thing as “rating” extracurriculars. To put it simply, all colleges want to see is that you have done something that’s NOT related to academics or used your academics to do something more than acing a test. It seems that colleges won’t really care about your EC’s unless you show a genuine passion for in your essays, interviews, etc. Your internships are impressive (of course, it depends on the competition that’s there to get in) but show that you are interested in them and have a passion for them by talking about them in your essays. I just reread your post and I saw that you have a passion for engineering. I don’t think it will necessarily hurt you that you didn’t do much in math and/or science, and so they would heavily weight your math and science grades in high school as well as your math scores on the SAT/PSAT. Also, by top tier schools, that still doesn’t clarify what sort of schools as there really isn’t a set “tier system” in colleges, unless you mean the US News rankings, which really aren’t that helpful at the end of the day. If you’re looking at the tippy top schools like HYPSM, then those extra-curricalars are a bit weak, but if you have nice grades and scores, you’ll still stand a shot. Good luck!