What if I don't have...

hewey
Tue, 06 May 2008 01:50:12 +0000

Try and get involved in something related to your intended major/degree. Medicine - get some volunteer experience at a hospital. Law - volunteer at a law firm, mock trial etc. Sciences - research lab. You get the idea. If you’re seriously “not interested” in anything now, you’re not gonna show a passion or interest in anything at university or throughout the rest of your life which is very unattractive for admission officers. If you don’t have anything in particular you ARE passionate about at this very moment, then you still have showed no attempt to even try and find something, which could be seen as even worse.

Some of us get involved in ECs because we actually enjoy doing them. Before this year I had absolutely no intention of going to an American university. In Australia, ECs are absolutely nothing, it’s all grades. Every EC I did during school and after was to do with the fact I enjoyed them and had an interest in the field. You need to find something (even just a job, because everyone’s interested in money) that you enjoy and that shows you’re not a robot only concerned with good grades. Grades will only get you so far in life.