<p>My notes/issues with these are at the bottom, so feel free to read those first! But, here are my EC's:</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
- JV Volleyball
- Club Volleyball
- Rec League Volleyball coach (team won regional championships)
- Varsity Public Forum Debate
- School newspaper Staff Reporter
- Cliffhanger Media Project (unique club at my school that conceptualizes, scripts, casts, shoots, edits and releases one feature length film per year) scriptwriter, cast member, and producer
- Designed shirt for Freshman Lock-In
- Head alto/soloist of my church youth choir
- Regular (every meeting) participant in sandwich-making/distributing program at my church</p>
<p>Summer before Sophomore Year:
- Computer Science summer school (not a previously attempted course)</p>
<p>Sophomore Year:
- Varsity Volleyball
- Club Volleyball
- Volleyball Referee (but only for the two months that the season lasted)
- School newspaper Spread Editor
- State finalist for newspaper design competition
- Cliffhanger Media Project Vice-President, scriptwriter, cast member, and producer
- Poetry Out Loud class winner, school winner, regional winner, state finalist
- Designed shirt for homecoming
- Head alto/soloist of my church youth choir
- Regular (every meeting) participant in sandwich-making/distributing program at my church</p>
<p>Summer before Junior Year:
- World History 1 summer school (not a previously attempted course)
- Volleyball camp coach</p>
<p>Junior Year
- Varsity Volleyball
- Club Volleyball
- Volleyball Referee (but only for the two months that the season lasted)
- School newspaper Layout Editor
- Won a national feature on the National Student Press Association website for a newspaper page design
- Varsity Public Forum Debate
- Cliffhanger Media Project President, director, head script editor, and producer
- Big Sib (freshmen are assigned Big Sib volunteers chosen from an applicant pool who then help them acclimate to my rather unique high school environment)
- Poetry Out Loud class winner, school finalist
- Designed shirt for homecoming
- Designed spirit pack for volleyball (warm-up shirt, Varsity shirt)
- Designed shirt for Public Forum Debate
- Designed shirt for Policy Debate
- Head alto/soloist of my church youth choir
- Regular (every meeting) participant in sandwich-making/distributing program at my church</p>
<p>Summer before Senior Year:
- Attended pre-college at the Maryland Institute College of Art for one month, earning three credits for graphic design</p>
<p>Senior Year:
- Varsity Volleyball
- School newspaper Layout Editor
- Varsity Public Forum Debate
- Cliffhanger Media Project President, director, head script editor, and producer
- Big Sib
- Co-Founder/Web Designer for TeenActivist.org (designed banner and buttons for site)
- Web Designer for NextGENHome.org (designed banner) / Newsletter Editor for NextGEN Policy club at school
- Designed full spirit pack for volleyball (warm-up shirt, Varsity shirt, senior shirt, sweatpants, sweatshirt)
- Designed shirt for NextGEN Policy club
- Head alto/soloist of my church youth choir
- Regular (every meeting) participant in sandwich-making/distributing program at my church
- Hopefully something with Poetry Out Loud
- Hopefully designing more shirts for clubs and homecoming
- Hopefully National Merit Semifinalist or above (I'm past the cut-off for my state from last year, but who knows)</p>
<p>Okay, so I know it's good that I at least have multiple EC's on my resume, but there are a few key gaps, and I'm wondering if those will kill me for college admissions. The gaps are (1) no job experience except two-month seasonal volleyball reffing (and I decided to leave that out of my CommonApp for lack of room and lack of importance in my life), (2) the sophomore year gap in debate and lack of awards and/or leadership positions in debate (I kind of only did it for fun and never really excelled...would it be better to leave it off the apps?), (3) not doing club volleyball my senior year, (4) the validity of my shirt-designing credits (I know it can be very simple to make a t-shirt design, but I want to be a graphic designer and all of my designs are a little more complicated and well-executed than just typing a team name and slapping clip art onto a digital shirt at Custom Ink... but is there any way college admissions could know that?), and (5) the inferior performance in the Poetry Out Loud competition my junior year as compared to my sophomore year (should I leave junior year participation out entirely?).</p>
<p>Anyway, if anyone could help me out with making calls for those, I would very much appreciate it!</p>