<p>Hi,
Below are my extra curriculars that I would like to see if you think they are what MIT would be interested in.</p>
<p>-Eagle Scout
-FIRST Robotics State Winners (46th in world finals out of 400+)
-Washington State Aerospace Scholar
-Tennis Team Captain
-I run a Tech News Web Site Free</a> the Gadget|"We need a better logo."</p>
<p>Any above good? any above bad?? </p>
<p>Thanks so much!
-Joel</p>
<p>FIRST Robotics State Winners and Tennis Team Captain, I guess.</p>
<p>Those ECs are solid, especially the FIRST robotics one. Try to pursue robotics even further; are you competing next year?</p>
<p>yea, I am doing it again next year. Should I put all of those on my transcript? or not</p>
<p>Thanks again so much!</p>
<p>I’ve never really understood the question “Are my EC’s worthy of MIT.” Your EC’s are your EC’s, it’s really hard to manufacture EC’s to impress at application time. The question asked by almost any Admissions Officer at any school is “What does this student do, outside of class.” That is hard to fake over several years.</p>
<p>I regularly talk about impressive sounding EC’s at interview. For example, I have found that there is a small minority of students involved in community service or charity fund-raising at secondary school who can talk about it in depth once we get past the obvious talking points. The things that you do, purely because they look good get easily identified. </p>
<p>Beyond that, there is no EC that is inherently more worthy than any other. I spoke to one kid who was a guild-master of his World of Warcraft Guild, and managed to get some 70 people scattered around the country working towards a single goal. He spoke about managing personality conflicts, about delegating responsibility to deputies and how that had worked out and how it hadn’t. He talked about managing personalities and about the organizational challenge involved in arranging bi-weekly 40 person raids, just getting a differing group of 40 players on line at the same time, in the same place at the game world, to achieve a task. It was quite impressive, much more impressive than being president of the chess team, when the school arranges all of the competitions.</p>
<p>Was that MIT-worthy? I thought so. A kid may have no EC’s at school, because his family needs him to work after school every day. Is that MIT-worthy? Entirely possibly yes. The question any competitive school asks is what does this kid do, and what is the context that explains why he/she does it? Beyond that, there is no “worthy”.</p>
<p>@Mikalye</p>
<p>Well said. </p>
<p>As long as you follow your passions, anything you do is probably MIT-worthy (pure speculation :D).</p>
<p>As Orwell might say, all ECs are equal in terms of MIT-worthiness, but some are more equal than others.</p>