<p>I have a lot of ECs. However, I haven't really done any of them for an extremely long time. I don't really have any achievements in any of them either. How much would this affect my application?</p>
<p>I would suggest focusing on a few of those ECs that you enjoy most, and express your passion in those ones and how you plan to continue with them.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>@twinshk2: I guess you could be labeled as “well rounded,” which I don’t think is bad, unless you bet your chance of admission on any particular EC. After all, you’re just 13-15 years old and supposed to explore diverse areas of interests before find talent/passion in one or two of them. My 2c.</p>
<p>What will affect your application is whether you have a passion for something. You may be young, but at some point something has to be fueling you. Well rounded is good. But there are a lot of well-rounded kids in the pile. So either you make a strong emotional connection with an Adcom who wants to see you as part of the culture, or something on your application is going to have to stand out for them to choose you over one of the other thousand or thousands they are turning down.</p>
<p>Boarding Schools and Colleges look for passionate students who have something to contribute.</p>
<p>Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Be honest and list everything. You never know who is reading your file. The one thing you are tempted to leave off, might be the one thing that would catch someone’s eye. </p>
<p>But please don’t do to them, what one recent applicant did to me - which was to list every activity since elementary school, none of which they’d done for longer than a year. They were resume building and finally admitted it. Adcoms are astute at telling the difference.</p>