<p>I took it freshman year, but would rather make room for more ap classes. I was wondering if places like Harvard would’ve rather seen the leadership of JROTC rather than a tougher schedule.</p>
<p>You’re overthinking things. Look for leadership in other areas.</p>
<p>I took the opposite route. I dropped band (after playing since 8 yrs) to finish out JROTC because I genuinely enjoyed it. Nervous HS college confidential users would say to drop band is “bad”. I made my decision b/c it was good for me. You should use the same criteria</p>
<p>As a follow on to your other “how do I get into Harvard” post, you have to know that becoming a viable candidate to schools like H is not predicated on small decisions like “AFJROTC vs an additional AP class”.</p>
<p>It’s a mentality, a lifestyle of excellence and influence. Either you’ll become that or you won’t. Often, it’s not an issue of will or desire. It’s not a list of things to check off.</p>
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<p>Realistically, you also have to know that becoming a viable candidate is necessary, but not sufficient, for getting into Harvard (or Yale, or MIT, or Northwestern, or Swarthmore…). The majority of applicants whom those schools deny are every bit as talented and every bit as qualified as the applicants whom they accept.</p>
<p>If you work hard in school and make good grades, and you commit yourself not only to working at, but also to making accomplishments in activities that you find pleasure or meaning in, you’ll have some really good options for higher education available to you when you finish high school. But if you set your heart on any particular uber-selective college or university, you’re just inviting disappointment.</p>
<p>One big component of that “mindset” that T26E4 is talking about–I believe, and I don’t mean to put words into my friend T26E4’s mouth–is that students with that mindset make their academic and extracurricular choices for the value they find in those choices, not for the way they’ll look to admissions officers in New Haven or Palo Alto or Evanston. They tend to make the curricular and extracurricular choices that seem good and valuable to them, and they figure the college stuff will all turn out fine. And if you are a high-achieving student with that mindset, the college stuff probably will all turn out fine. Even if you don’t wind up spending your college years in Cambridge, Mass.</p>
<p>You capture my def’n of “mindset” well, sikorsky. I may quote your sentences in the future…</p>
<p>Bring up my post</p>
<p>I’m curious Eddy:
You ask a question of which there are 2 answers. 1) it doesn’t matter or 2) it matters.</p>
<p>You get two replies that state number 1. </p>
<p>You bump your post because … you’re hoping for someone to offer number 2 as the answer?</p>
<p>I’m not following your logic here…</p>