<p>“NHS, Mu Alpha Theta (Math honors club), Good volunteer hours, JV swimming and a bunch of other crap I don’t care about but joined just to put on resume”</p>
<p>And this is why I hope you get rejected from every single dream college you have.
I hope you realize that, a) stacking on extracurriculars just to get into a top college is a huge waste of your time and your youth, and b) that most top colleges can very well see when a student is interestingly well-rounded or just attempting to make a shopping list of pointless ECs to pepper their already-inflated ego.
Yeah, you’re probably going to be accepted to NYU, whatever. In the long run, you’ll most likely be making the same amount of money (of which you seem to cherish entirely too much) and be in the same position as any other person in your field of work that graduated from a decent university.
Do you really think its better to look back on your teen years and say, “I was like a high-profile business executive!” Would your family really be impressed? Or would you rather say that you were crazy (yet responsible) and happened to have an intense hobby for computers or whatever? </p>
<p>As far as the purpose of this thread goes, you can probably get into any university that your heart desires. But as a concerned CC’er, I recommend obtaining some sort of emotional freedom.</p>