<p>Hi I'll be a junior next year at a public school in south oc california</p>
<p>I'm hoping I'll be able to get into Stanford and at the moment I'm looking into making my Extracurrics better. Please let me know if you think these sound good or if it'll be a reach (in regard to the ecs.)</p>
<p>9th grade- freshmen treasurer
Junior classical league (latin club) member-- won a regional and state convention academic testing awards (regionals=2nd daily life; state=2nd daily life, and 2nd pentathlon)
Frosh-soph girls bball
local hospital volunteer (started late = may)
cali. scholarship fed. member</p>
<p>10th grade- soph vice pres.
JCL- Historian; (regionals= 2nd daily life; state= 1st place daily life, 3rd place pentathlon)
jv girls bball (scholar athlete with 4.6 gpa that semester)
csf member
nhs member
local volunteer at hospital (not TOO much = 50 hours for the year)
JUnior year= I'm hoping to continue all that but also start a student global aids campaign at my school as a club
+ junior class vice pres. </p>
<p>basically im afraid these ECs are getting a little generic and that JCL academic awards aren't really worth much (plus they are like my only awards so that worries me)</p>
<p>exactly! well im hoping that by starting this club i can really put in my efforts into strating from scratch and making it successful. hopefully that'll add something</p>
<p>depends on what the resources at your school are. at least, that's what i'm assuming. cuz im also entering junior year and have lackluster EC's but my school has no clubs and barely any motivated kids. we also get out 530 twice a week (although this upcoming year it will be three times a week). anyways good luck to you and go rising junior CC'ers! w00t w00t!</p>
<p>ps: you've also got to realize that ur coming from one of the "competitive" states, especially with the high percentage of asians in CA (not to stereotype but most seem like overachevers or geniuses or what not. all my asian friend's parents push them even if they don't want to be pushed. or they push themselves.) however, you could also be a hispanic or black californian. that would put you at an advantage (although supposedly stanford is known for being more colorblind and has one of the highest acceptance rates of asians and indians among the top ranked universities. supposedly.) again: g/l. and have an awesome time with that campaign.</p>
<p>haha. i love hhow people are dumfounded when i write things like "5:30 twice a week" or "class size is eleven." anyhow, just wanted to say that :) unfortunately, it's the truth.</p>
<p>i know right? and we get out 5:30 three times this year, despite the fact that we're supposed to have block schedule. and how the h(e)ll am i supposed to explain myself when i apply to princeton in two years? we make do with what weve got (two days getting out @ 3:40 - though this year that would be two). not to mention that there's a lack of motivation within the student body in my school and i found out about the scholastic awards after the deadline this past year (im a sophmore). i could rant on about it for days. pm me if you'd like to know more because there is so much more juicy stuff. isn't it grand? isn't it great? isn't it - nowadays (dum dum dee dum) :p</p>
<p>"not to mention that there's a lack of motivation within the student body in my school"</p>
<p>wait...do you go to my school? lol</p>
<p>My school was extremely unmotivated and it was a horrible environment to be in when applying/wanting to apply to top colleges (although it worked out and I had a great time there).</p>
<p>Keep in mind though that the list that northstarmom has provided is a one person opinion.
For example, an out-of-state paid internship she listed as an outstanding achievement could be gotten incredibly easily if you have the right connections (my son, for example, could have done an internship at the national accelerator laboratory, if we were so inclined with no difficulty whatsoever). Being a nationally/state ranked athlete, on the other hand, is an achievment that requires a lot of time, energy, and money from a student as well as from the whole family (we happen to have one). I do not try to undermind the above advice by all means, but I would judge things a little differently coming from another perspective.</p>
<p>Just to make sure u know...I was talking about my highschool's environment.</p>
<p>I have a Gauranteed Transfer to Cornell U so I'm going to Stonehill for very little money next year, and then Cornell. Can't wait! (Only person in my school to be going to a top 50 school (one person is going to Syracuse...so...maybe I should say top 49 school lol). Besides for one going to University of Maryland (55) pretty much like 30 people are going to UCONN (68).</p>
<p>Although there were a few other good ones like a girl who is going to Wheaton but also got accepted to Middlebury (one of my best friends). Also the val is going to some tiny engineering school that must be good to some degree. Also one is going to American U...which I think is a really underrated place. </p>
<p>So not insulting the kids...because many are my friends and I like them a lot...but the environment wasn't very motivating. It was pretty much like "If I'm average or a little above average I'll go to Uconn". "If I'm a little below average I'll go to Eastern Connecticut State University or maybe central ConnSU or southern ConnSU if I want to go to another part of the state". Very unmotivating...in fact my counseler laughed at me when I read my college list when the Ivys came up.</p>
<p>The rest went into the work force, military, or became farmers. Then about 20 went to other colleges besides the ones mentioned (lower ranked then Uconn so I didn't mention them in the above ramblings, and I don't wanna list them all now :)).</p>
<p>lmao. Is ur school also an agriculture school? (like 1/4 of the student body takes ag) and we have animals out back like sheep and such. But with that also brings rednecks and racists/biases/no diversity :( (I'm half jewish so even that played a role)</p>