Hi,
I’m a 15 year old student currently in Year 11(Grade 10 in the US), as we use the British education system, here in Hong Kong. Last academic year, which began around early August, I vowed to myself that I would find extracurriculars to do and regularly take part in, as I knew the importance of them and that grades alone would not admit me into a good college.
However, I missed a couple of activities that I’d been wanting to do and I had this really destructive mindset - that I would just wait until next year, then rejoin those activities. As a result, the whole of that academic year(Year 10), there was no movement in terms of extracurricular activities. That was pretty depressing and now I realise how stupid I was to have that mindset back then, and it’s really got me brooding and I really am just confused as to what I should do now.
I am currently Year 11, and in November of 2019 I will be submitting my college applications. I’ve never been very active, extracurricular wise and am panicking a lot right now.
Please, could someone give me advice as to what I should do, and also will 2 years of extracurriculars be alright in the eyes of admissions officers, to get into a top-notch college?
I’ve panicked, blithely avoided extracurriculars so as not to burden myself with the sweat-inducing worry everytime I think about them, and panicked again after realizing the consequences of my actions - but I repeat the same mistakes all the time.
Plz help