Are my EC's enough for IVY league/International

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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I am the president of Debate Club and I joined lots of debates which I won. Our club arranged debates and I was president of them.
I am coordinator of English and Francophone Days in my school.
I have 3 projects;
One of them is We gathered other IB schools which in Bosnia, Hungary and Poland.(I am a IB student) and published a magazine that I was photographer of it.
Second one is I searched issues of Chines Women who live in small town and shot a documentary about it.
Third one is I went Macedonia and searched three main religions when I was there and took lots of photo and my school prepare a gallery for those photos.
Lots of Mun
I went Hong Kong, Italy and Indonesia for teaching English and drawing for the kids.
I am in with painting and I draw since I know myself. I accepted CSSA for summer art camp in California.
I provided a special copy machine for my close friend who is not able to see and for money collecting, I organized a fair.

My sat and ib score are pretty good my I have doubts about EC’s
Please tell me your ideas or something else, thank you for readin bunch of these things!

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College’s judge you in the context of your school, and what options are available to you – that’s true for academics and extracurricular activities. Harvard has some great advice about extracurricular activities, that would apply to Yale and to any selective US college:

Beyond that, all selective colleges look for a long term commitment to an activity – one to three years – as it shows devotion to something beyond academics. The idea is that commitment and devotion (some call it a passion) is translatable – it’s human potential, which might be directed to another activity in college and beyond. So long as your EC list shows a long term commitment to something, then you’re fine!

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do you think it shows commitment to something? thanks for replying! :slight_smile:

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The schools don’t just look at the list, they want to see how you pursued your interests and what you made of this. Plus. how you have some sort of impact. You’ll need to make the right presentation in your applications. Start by getting to know what these colleges are really about, what they look for, in the first place.

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What should i do exactly. I want to study architecture or psychology and i did lots of projects. Those projects I wrote above are most serious ones.

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As @Lookingforward commented, it’s impossible to tell your commitment and devotion to your EC’s from the way you’ve listed them. Right now, it just seems like a laundry list of activities, which is not what colleges are looking for. Last year, on another thread about resumes. I posted my son’s resume. Look at the way he’s listed his EC’s and then do the same on the Common Application with your EC’s: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1667731-college-interviews-resume-vs-activities-list-p2.html

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You should feature those projects on a website which you can create for free, and include links to them on your EC list.

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Thanks! It seems really nice and regular :slight_smile: Other thing I want to tell you is should I send a video or picture that I took in my application because I shot really nice documentary.Second one is I do not have serious award but my acceptance in CSSSA is really big thing. Their application is like college application, essays, recommendation etc. :confused:
It is sort of competition

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You can provide a link. They may or may not then follow it. If you feel you have a strong arts presentation, perhaps consider a college’s arts supplement. Again, you have to know how the individual colleges treat this.

CSSA may or may not carry weight with college adcoms. It’s not the admmission to those programs that matters. It’s how you show your fit for the individual college and the four year experience there.

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Admissions Officers really don’t have the time to watch a video, but if you edited a Hollywood-like movie trailer to your video, you could post that on your website. Keep in mind that movie trailers are no more than two and half minutes – so yours should be no longer than that!

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Thanks for the advices :slight_smile: I have ability to painting if I cannot show my love to them, I would be really disappointed. Does my IB score really affect my application as a international student?

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Start looking at what the colleges themselves say. We can’t emphasize that enough.

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Harvard is a bit more clear on how they value IB tests, but Yale and Princeton are probably the same. Notice at Harvard MORE value seems to placed on IB tests and AP tests than SAT and ACT tests:

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Where did your son get into, Gibby?

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My son is a senior at Yale, graduating next month, and my daughter is a mid-year 2015 Harvard graduate.

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Congrats! How lucky they and you are :slight_smile: Im junior right now and I wish I can get into too :confused: