<p>Do you think that adcoms are cynical when it comes to ECs? For example if you start a non-profit charity at sophomore year or all/majority of your ECs have sprouted in the last 3 years do adcoms immediately neglect them or are the ECs weakened? </p>
<p>I'd imagine they (adcoms) would be cynical but I'm a novice at the whole college application thing in America. Like if my ECs had for example (they are not/may not by my real ECs): </p>
<p>1) Started a school in a 3rd world country - 3 years
2) Debating - 4 years
3) Model UN - 3 years
4) Mock Trial - 3 years
5) Volunteer Work of other kind - 4 years
6) Tutoring - 4 years</p>
<p>Does this look bad that its only 3 year for most of them? Will they immediately think its purely for college and diminish its value? Thanks</p>
<p>3 years is fine, just means you weren’t quite sure what you wanted to do freshmen year and it took a little while to find stuff. Now 4 years is better obviously, since its longer, but 3 years is still good. </p>
<p>Its if you only had ecs that you started senior year that you run into problems.</p>
<p>but what if you joined an EC senior year that you thought you wouldn’t have liked in previous years? like I just became interested in the medical field mid-junior year and im joining my school’s HOSA club senior year. joining that club has the right intentions</p>
<p>Do you really have to clarify that in your application?</p>
<p>If for example, you won various distinctions (like 3rd in state) in your senior year though it’s your first year in that EC? I mean, shouldn’t it be self-evident?</p>
<p>Or if you put in 13 hours a week in a new sport during your senior year?</p>
<p>where would you put that kind of notice? i moved in the end of 8th grade-beginning of freshman year to another state, then in the beginning of sophmore year, i moved back to my original homestate. So i never really had a chance to continue, b/c the requirements of the schools were totally different, and i spent some time trying to figure out what I wanted to do.</p>
<p>also, does continuity show if you’ve taken a class like a foriegn language for all of hs, or is it just in ECs that matter?</p>
<p>I think that most colleges have applications that include a set of lines where they ask you if you would like to clarify any part of your application without restating already-given information. You could use that to your advantage to explain why you joined an EC so late.</p>