<p>Whats better?</p>
<p>Winning/Being published in a provincial competition conference/academic journal?</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>Planning/creating a provincial conference or academic journal (i.e. Model United Nation, Debate Competition, Student Journal Publication)</p>
<p>they both have their pluses.
i mean getting published obviously looks good, but creating a provincial conference or academic journal shows initiative and leadership, which colleges love. if you’re deciding between the two, go with whichever you would rather do, not which you think the colleges should see. that way, your passion for the one you choose will be seen.</p>
<p>i wonder that too! okay sorry this comment is probably going to be totally unhelpful to you but my thoughts are that it looks better to start something if there isn’t already something like it in ure school. i.e. it looks good to start a young democrats club but not if there’s already a highschool democrats club or something. bc it can be easier to start a new club (bc u start out on top in rankings) and succeed in it. And it’s often hard to become prez or something in a club that’s already established so i think colleges recognize that aspect too.
so to sum up: it depends if u’re being original and taking initiative or just looking to get be on top in a club that u started.</p>
<p>I have a lot of leadership experiance, maybe too much, my teachers say I “Love being a leader”. lol. But I was wondering if I should try to balance it out… I don’t enter competitions because, well, I don’t like competing. Never have. I don’t have zero awards, but I just don’t really have many.</p>
<p>I’m planning to apply to top tier schools, should I keep doing what I love, or balance it out?</p>
<p>psht that might even be a good thing! colleges are so sick of the typical over-competitive kid. imho, leadership positions tend to look better than awards bc being a prez or something shows that ure respected by ure peers for ure actions and not just uber-competitive. UNLESS there’s something u’re particularly passionate about something that has a competition to it (like if you want to be a journalists or something it might be nice to have won an award for it but still not as nice as being editor-in-cheif.
if you keep doing what you love and it’ll come through (positively) in ure app.</p>
<p>both are different, it looks better if you did the first one though</p>
<p>^ I agree…</p>