What if I don't have...

DCforMe
Mon, 05 May 2008 22:04:05 +0000

I suspect you already know the answer to this.

Sure, smart passionate students can live a perfectly well-adjusted life without school sponsored EC’s. The problem is that their applications look amazingly similar to socially isolated, dispassionate nerds. The two applications are almost impossible to tell apart.

Are you seriously saying that nothing interests you? Nothing in either your entire school or community? Nothing seems valuable to you? No volunteer work, sports, teams, or clubs? I find that hard to believe.

And furthermore, why should a college admit someone who had identical academic performance to someone who managed the same workload while simultaneously juggling sports, clubs, etc.?

As for will it hurt you, you don’t need me to tell you that. What sort of schools are we talking about? And has eliminating EC’s from your schedule given you a 4.0/2400?