Science Olympiad Enhancing Application for College?

LizzieT
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:46:38 +0000

All of the EC’s in the world won’t compensate if your grades don’t stay up. Keeping them up has to be job #1. You don’t need a horde of EC’s, concentrate on a few and make sure you are a high contributor/leader and that’s reflected on your apps. You’ll get more mileage that way than spreading yourself too thin.

I always feel sorry for kids who had great grades but then they dropped because of too many EC’s. I wonder what they might have done if they hadn’t been too ‘busy’ and I’d bet that admission committees wonder the same thing. Really, it’s a shame. You need to focus.