<p>It’s not possible to start a business under the age of 18.</p>
<p>It’s not possible to start a business under the age of 18</p>
<p>So this is my opinion only</p>
<p>Great ECs are not based on how many fancy things you’ve participated in. It’s about doing something you love with a passion. That is what is reflected in your application and what sets you apart from the hundreds of students with perfect ECs . Doing something you love and being exceptionally good at it.</p>
<p>i have tons of ECs that music related, but I want to major in bio/chemistry. I’ve taken a couple science classes outside of school and participated in the biotech club activities, but other than that I don’t have many science ECs. Will it be difficult for me to get into a college for science?</p>
<p>Can anyone chance me please 
Thank you!!!
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<p>@ukitake123 </p>
<p>Just put “undecided” for major and change into biochem after you get in.</p>
<p>Find a cure for cancer.</p>
<p>Do colleges look at my son being nominated to be Student of the Year in Middle School ? He received diplomas of recognition from State Senators and local officials. </p>
<p>My son has EC ( extracurricular )of:</p>
<p>1- has 3 sports that he loves, being captain on two of them.( volleyball and basketball). , total 4 years of participation and lettered in all 3. He received over 8 awards in total. </p>
<p>2- Class council for a few years. Social chair, secretary, etc.
3- Started a charity volunteer club, which he founded and is now running. He attracted 50 students to sign up for it.
4- Volunteered at the Navajo reservation for 4 years thru Yourh Mission Service Program.
5- Volunteered to teach poor kids in Ecuador for 2 weeks.
6- Volunteered at local food banks,
7- Participated in Operation Shoebox, in which he donated his good personal toys to send out to needy kids all over the world.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if this has been asked yet, but how much weight do academic competitions (especially Olympiads) carry? Would these be considered ECs? I spend a good amount of time on these (since to me, they’re really fun to do).</p>
<p>For instance, how much would each of the following be “worth” (especially when one is looking towards schools like HYP)?
- Making the top ~300 round (i.e. USAMO)
- Getting top honors (not quite camp) in them (i.e. USAPhO gold medal or USACO gold division)
- Making camp (i.e. MOP)
- Making I<em>O (less popular ones like linguistics)
- Making I</em>O (more popular ones like mathematics)</p>
<p>I mainly did these because of the free stuff you could get (camps, etc.), but I really do hope they count in the college admissions process.</p>
<p>Also, how would you put these in your application? And if you had a bunch of them, which ones would you put, how, and where? Thanks.</p>
<p>Hey guys I’m currently a senior in high school. I was just wondering if you could chance me for
NYU Stern, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, and Cornell. </p>
<p>GPA: 3.6 (unweighted), 4.01 (weighted)
ACT: 33
SAT IIs: Chem (760), Math 2 (taking soon)</p>
<p>Race: Indian Male
High School: Public School </p>
<p>ECs
-Math Honor Society (President) (11th & 12th grade)
-Computer Science Club (Founder/President) (12th Grade)
-FBLA (Vice President, Head of Membership Committee) (10th, 11th, 12th)
-Model United Nations (Director of Technology) (10th, 11th, 12th)
-Science Honor Society (Member) (11th, 12th)
-National Honor Society (Member) (11th, 12th)</p>
<p>Volunteering
-over 100 hours at the local hospital
-over 1000 hours at my local Hindu Temple (Senior Youth Coordinator) </p>
<p>Awards
-1st Place at FBLA State Leadership Conference in Web Design
-3rd Place at the National High School Model United Nations Conference
-Most Improved at Rutgers Model United Nations Conference
-AP Scholar
-Top 10 out of 60 at the PClassic (Programming competition for high school students held at UPenn)</p>
<p>Other
-developed a personal website to display my past works
-developed an iPad application to remember where you parked your car (5000+ downloads)
-developed an iPad application for an international event attended by 40,000+ people
-attended a Computer Science Program at Stevens Institute of Technology
-interned at a bio metrics company </p>
<p>these are my extra curriculars…are they good or do i need to do more for acveptance into schools like brown/Carnegie:
-internship at university of Missouri -kansas city (umkc)…published research paper
- starting a nonprofit organization for charity to orphanages
- debate (3 years)-national forensics league
- national honors society
- national Spanish honors society(3 years)
- Future business leaders (3 years…board this year as competition coordinator)
- Indian dance and singing (7+ years)
- hospital volunteer (3 years)
- worked at a math/reading center (2 years)
- diversity council board–[really involved: various events-multicultural festival/diversity conference/etc]
-academic decathlon (2yrs) - key club/spanish club/deca(business club)
- relay for life committee</p>
<p>I think a lot of people would consider my EC’s typical and boring, things that “wouldn’t stand out.” But I love my clubs, I love everything I do outside of school, and I don’t want to have to join new organizations just so I’m “unique.” I think admission officers see so many applications that even the most interesting extracurriculars become pedestrian; and maybe, after this point, it isn’t what an applicant did that stands out but how they felt about it. Adcoms might see the vigor, the pure excitement, in someone’s essay about something as mundane as debate or SGA, and maybe that passion will be the elusive “stand out” quality.
At least I hope that’s how it is, because I’m not savvy enough to join Future business leaders, coordinated enough to win a triathlon, or smart enough to perfect the Ebola cure (though I’ll start trying).</p>
<p>Hi My name is Mark. Right now the two biggest schools I am interested in are UGA and Georgia Tech… my GPA is a 3.88 I have a 21 out of 361 class rank, all of my classes in highschool have been honors classes and I have 3 A.P. Classes my senior year, which is now. I am in Beta Club, Key Club, National Honor Society, I help out a lot in my community, some examples being tutoring young kids, volunteering at the local boys and girls club, helping out at the local food pantry. I am also involved in the youth ministry at church along with being Vice President of the young adult ushers, and Vice President of the sound and media ministry. My SAT wasn’t too exciting but I got a 22 on my ACT and I plan to get at least a 25 once I retake it this month… Can anyone tell me my chances of getting into both UGA and, or Georgia Tech?</p>
<p>My ecs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Varsity basketball (2 years)</li>
<li>Started own charity for students (raised ~ $15k)</li>
<li>IT intership summer after Junior year</li>
<li>Math tutor</li>
<li>Programmed apple applications ~ $10k profit</li>
<li>Programmed apps/websites for some people/companies - paid ~ $5k</li>
<li>started online company - made ~ $10k</li>
</ul>
<p>I plan to major in Computer Science.
Are these ecs good enough for schools like Stanford and MIT?</p>
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I would appreciate any input on my question regarding extracurriculars, thanks!</p>
<p>Yes @austin23, those are superb ecs. How did you manage to raise $15k for charity? 
That’s quite an accomplishment.</p>
<p>Hey @jennifer11 can you read my post and tell me what you think about my chances for those colleges?</p>
<p>What do you guys think of these? I’m curious if others think these are good enough or not for the UCs and such.
ECs:
4 Year Football Player—2 At Varsity Level, 1 at JV, 1 at Freshman
4 Year Crew Member for Drama Productions at school—1 as Assistant Crew Chief, 2 as Sole Crew Chief
4 Year Member of School Peer Counseling Team—1 as Co-Coordinator, 1 as Head Coordinator
Custom Car Project with my father, 1971 Karmann Ghia being completely rebuilt with a new Subaru Engine put in (I know it isn’t academic but I think it shows my creative side too)
Internship with Local Police Department (Intern program is nationwide)—That started over last summer and I have also stated on my apps I want to be a cop so there is relation.
2 Year Member of Mock Trial Team—Joined team in Junior year and was immediately promoted to top spot and received an award for top witness later in the year
Builder for School’s Haunted House that raises money (About 9 grand a year) for Leukemia Society—All 4 years
Volunteer for Relay For Life in my town—All 4 years
Outdoor Science School Counselor for 5th graders—Only 10th grade because I didn’t have time in other years.</p>
<p>Think these guys are good?</p>
<p>hmm if i’m in like science club, science olympiad, science bowl, ocean bowl, math club, math league, math honors society, physics club, programming club, and whatever other math/science clubs there are in my school, would that be bad or good?</p>
<p>Good?
3 years varsity baseball and soccer
1 year JV basketball
President of my schools Amnesty International chapter
‘Head Ambassador’ of Model UN club (essentially president), attended conferences in NYC, Chicago, Budapest, Germany, Kalamazoo, have won awards
Internship after Junior year for the Michigan Democratic Party
Attended a International Relations (my intended major) program at American University after Sophomore year
Member of Jewish Student Club
Studied abroad for two weeks in the Netherlands Freshman year</p>