<p>Are Ec's really that important? Like on college applications is there like a half a page for your EC's and adcoms just skip over it or is it actually a big part of the application? Please Reply to This Thanks</p>
<p>heck YES (char)</p>
<p>I think so.</p>
<p>really important</p>
<p>top 50 schools = REALLY VERY IMPORTANT</p>
<p>top 120 schools = IMPORTANT</p>
<p>your local state school = DOESN'T MATTER THAT MUCH AS LONG AS YOU HAVE SOME</p>
<p>Especially at the top schools, your ECs will set you apart from the other applicants, and show what sort of person you are, beyond the numbers.</p>
<p>Sadly and apparently they are. I personally think they should not count in admissions, which should be about academic merit, not subjective non-academic things you can do. But I am not an adcom.</p>
<p>Sure they are important. Your grades, coursework, and test scores are the cake, and the ECs are the frosting. But so often these days many of the cakes are excellent. So it comes down to who did the best job with the frosting.</p>
<p>Good ECs can't make up for a poor academic performance, but they along with the essays sure can help distinguish you from all the other kids whose academics are just as good as yours.</p>
<p>Love the analogy, wow. Let's just hope it works for me and that the adcoms like straight frosting :) :) hahaa kidding</p>
<p>they are actually, VERY IMPORTANT. I am not lying to you, you can have the grades, but if you have no ec's, you are guarenteed rejection.</p>
<p>Flipsta it make since to weigh so heavily on ECs. Colleges want student body that's not dead, if the student body ends up that way it can have a negative impact on performance and the number of applications received. Not to mention that schools would be overloaded with top scorers, and eventually schools like HYPSM would only accept people with a minimum of 2340 SATs which isn't good for anyone except the ones that luck out and get that. Schools look for personality, and if you've spent the last four years locked up studying for the SATs, that says a lot about you.</p>
<p>There's no luck in high SAT scores, for the most part. It's APTITUDE.</p>
<p>no...that is an incorrect statement.</p>
<p>It measures a combination of aptitude and preparation. </p>
<p>Anyway...what if I did a sport for like 7 years and competed regionally, and even nationally 2 times, but then quit after 10th grade? Because of this sport I didn't really have any time to join any clubs for school, etc. So in 11th grade I started to join some clubs, but obviously couldn't have any leadership because I was a newcomer. I don't have any community service yet, nor have I held a job. Am I screwed?? Would getting a job and doing volunteering now (senior year) help, or would it just look like application padding?</p>
<p>u can explain the situation in the app. and show ur active participation in the prev. 7 yr sporting......</p>
<p>And to get a 2200+in sat requires Aptitude ......yes</p>
<p>But with Aptiude To get a 2200+ in Sat exam u need GOOD LUCK ...that says it all</p>
<p>As you can guess from my screen name, my daughter goes to McGill and is very happy with the school and city of Montreal. McGill (and I believe most Canadian schools) do not even look at EC's. They go by a strict calculation of standarized test scores, class rank and gpa. The application takes about 10 minutes and requires no ec's, essays or letters of recommendation.</p>
<p>The applicants scores are all placed in a computer and ranked against the other applicants with the top qualifications being admitted. This is very different from how my older D. was reviewed at Mt. Holyoke.</p>
<p>I dont know which is more fair and which creates a more diverse student body, although McGill seems as diverse as they get.</p>
<p>Do you really want to know what is not fair????</p>
<p>In the netherlands, if you want to do medicini, you must have real LUCK, because admission is solely based on a draw!!!</p>