<p>Take a class at a community college (something that EXTREMELY piques your interest), go to driver’s ed and get your driver’s license, work (find some places, and just get to it), play a sport for fun or on a club team, work out, run, volunteer somewhere you care about (I’m doing computers), do some church activities, read some books (reading books is the proven way to improve CR scores on the SAT-vocab, more grammar, seeing more literature-and examples for essays, because the highest essays use examples from lit). </p>
<p>I’m a soon-to-be freshman in college, and these things would have made my college apps so much better. That’s why I’m on this sub-forum: to help kids whose shoes I was in a couple years ago. Plus, if you do anything that expands your mind, you’ll probably love school (sounds crazy), but honestly it makes sense when you think about it: You will already be ahead of the curve, exploring clubs at your school, and have experience under your belt doing something that matters to you.</p>