Are My Extra Curriculars Weak?

Applying to College
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<p>As a rising senior, my grades, SAT score, and rank are all fine, but I'm afraid that I'm lacking in the EC area. It might just be that the overacheivers on this website have corrupted my vision of an applicant with decent/good EC's, but who knows. Here they are:</p>

<p>Celtic Society--9th-12th
-possibly Vice President sr. year</p>

<p>LaSallian Club (my school's serice club)--9-12th
-Secretary sr. year</p>

<p>National Honor Society--10th-12th
- Director of Special Projects (i.e. recycling/tutoring) sr. year</p>

<p>Newspaper--11th-12th
-Assistant editor both years</p>

<p>Bass Guitar--played for 6 years
- in two bands, one of which has played a number of benefit gigs
-also play a number of other instruments (guitar & glockenspiel) and write songs</p>

<p>Tutoring--11th-12th
-started a tutoring program at a school in a high crime, low income neighborhood
- also will work as a paid tutor this summer</p>

<p>Work as an Usher at a Theatre--11th-12th</p>

<p>And I'm also going to work/do more volunteering this summer. My main concern is lack of focus/dedication, and that my EC's are generally just not good enough. </p>

<p>BTW, I'm a first gen student of Irish immigrants.</p>

<p>I'm going to be applying to schools like:
-Wesleyan
-Vassar
-Tufts
-Bard
-Sarah Lawrence
-Macaulay at Hunter College
-Hampshire College
-Columbia/Brown ED</p>

<p>THANKS!</p>

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<p>For Columbia and Brown, I would say they are fairly weak. But they aren’t that bad, they are just average I guess.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I figured that. Thanks, though. Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Way more than I have. This website has a way of making me feel sub-par lol. Anywhoo, maybe put more focus into one or highlight something they all seem to have in common (service) in your app. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Weak, go make a nuclear reactor in you garage along with a scanning electron microscope and a 32 qubit quantum computer.</p>

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<p>@iStabBunnies: Haha I know! It’s terrible, but I love it. And yeah i know, I’m trying to showcase my passion for teaching/literacy, which I have only recently discovered, but it doesn’t seem to be working out too well. Any suggestions?</p>

<p>@davidthefat: I don’t know if I’ll have time to do that after my summer-long trip to Zimbabwe, where I will single-handedly build houses for every citizen, make and distribute cures for AIDS, and found my own self-sustaining far by which I will be able to feed all the hungry. Thanks for the relatively elementary suggestion though! ;P</p>

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<p>Hm. Look for programs for it. Read to kids at the library. WORK at the library. Start a club. Tutor some kids. Work with people. I’m not really good at this because my school’s idea of “community service” and such is selling snacks at football games.</p>

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<p>Haha, okay thanks anyway. Does anyone else have any input?</p>