Academic ECs vs Real Life ECs?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>What do colleges value more?</p>

<p>Being president of your class or CEO of a company?
Co-authoring a paper as an intern or authoring a paper as any other researcher?
Winning the robotics competition or designing and marketing a robot?
Debating in a classroom with students or in a conference room with the board of a company?
Model UN or working for a diplomat?
Winning the creative writing contest or being a regular in a major newspaper?</p>

<p>Is it better to be competing against fellow HS students or, well, everyone?</p>

<p>Discuss,
Chris</p>

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<p>Delete this; wrong section.</p>

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<p>how are you going to do any of the real life EC's during HS?</p>

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<p>If you’re lucky, internships. I got some of my own work published by doing an internship earlier this year.</p>

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<p>I had a similar dilemma. My options were to write for my university’s newspaper (“The Orion”) or intern at a locally distributed newspaper. In the end I chose the newspaper since I had other ECs pertaining to English within an academic environment (poetry performances at local high school, mentored by author, winning creative writing contests) and felt that one specifically outside of academia would enrich the overall field. </p>

<p>I’m pretty sure colleges want to see that you have some semblance of balancing academic growth with practical application, though. A healthy mixture is probably ideal.</p>

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<p>skimming your examples it seeems obvious you’re better off doing stuff ‘in the real world’</p>