I’m currently a Sophomore in high school and I really want to do activities that shows my intrest in passions for when I apply to any top universities. I’m really passionate about Soccer and I really would like some good ideas in order to express my interest for the sport. I’m not the athletic type and since I’ve never really played the sport, I’m a pretty bad player (I didn’t even make the team for my high school). I am in need for ideas beside playing the sport to express intrest. The other big career oriented intrest/passion of mine is the medical field. I’m hoping to get into the medical field and was also wanting some good ideas to express this interest to the colleges. I live in a very rural area and any medical activities for students here are extremely limited, thus I have only volunteered about 75 hours at my local small hospital and hospice each during the summer. I’m also treasurer of the HOSA club and plan on getting bigger positions next year. Any other good ideas I could do to express medical interest? Please keep in mind I’m in a area where there are few opportunities. Since my parents are from Guatemala, I was also thinking of doing some medical related work over there during a summer. More good ideas would be appreciated, thanks.
Does your school have an athletic trainer? Would he or she let you volunteer with them?
Other soccer options-
Take a referee course. You can make some extra money reffing youth soccer.
Volunteer as a kindergarten assistant coach. You really don’t need to be able to play soccer at that level. You just have to help the kids learn some basics and keep them interested and focussed.
Really learn the game and blog about it. See if you can find a particular angle.
Write for the sports page of your school newspaper.
adding to the above:
Does your HS have a soccer team? Could you be team manager? e.g., keep track of stats, etc.
Keep in mind that when you go to college, you don’t major in “pre-med”. You major in anything you want.
But if you could volunteer once a week during the year at the hospial that would be good.
Check out “How to be a High School Superstar” by Cal Newport.
“The basic message of the book is this: Don’t wear yourself out taking as many classes as you can and being involved in every club and sport. Instead, leave yourself enough free time to explore your interests. Cultivate one interest and make it into something special that will make you stand out among the other applicants and get you into the toughest schools, even if your grades and scores aren’t stellar. Newport calls this the “relaxed superstar approach,” and he shows you how to really do this, breaking the process down into three principles, explained and illustrated with real life examples of students who got into top schools: (1) underscheduling—making sure you have copious amounts of free time to pursue interesting things, (2) focusing on one or two pursuits instead of trying to be a “jack of all trades,” and (3) innovation—developing an interesting and important activity or project in your area of interest. This fruit yielded by this strategy, an interesting life and real, meaningful achievements, is sure to help not only with college admissions, but getting a job, starting a business, or whatever your goals.”
http://www.examiner.com/review/be-a-relaxed-high-school-superstar