<p>I am going to be a Senior and have maintained all A's with the excepton of 3 B's. SAT and ACT scores are on the way. I am enrolled in APs and have been since sophomore year. I going into my 4th year of Spanish(max we can take at my school) and I am currently involved in alot of various activities in my community, school, and church. I am Vice president of a young mens organization, I student tutor kids inside and outside of school, I'm captain of the golf team, I am active in helping run a youth leadership program at my church and I'm a member of the National Honor Society. I do have an opportunity to be president of National Honor Society but I'm not sure if my class load and being president, along with the other community services things I do, will be too much (Enrolled in 4 AP's). A friend and family member told me, who both went to Ivy Leagues, that I should fous all of my energy into one community service idea and not be involved in alot of different ones. So my questions are: Do Ivy Leagues like to see students that are heavily involved with alot of various community service projects or would they rather see a student focus their efforts into one project? Lastly do I need to take the offer of being NHS president if I have all these other community service things that I do?</p>
<p>Remember the expression, “depth not breath” or something like that… But anyways it’s good to being really involved in one thing and making an impact, rather then doing many things but doing them all poorly.</p>
<p>^That’s correct, but if you can be deeply involved in three projects (instead of being even more responsible for only one), go ahead and be deeply involved in three projects.</p>
<p>Try asking yourself , " Do I stand out from the applicant pool ? " Look at Harvard admitted students on another thread to get an idea of what it takes .</p>
<p>Hey fauxmaven, what’s with reviving all these old threads today? The last three I’ve seen your posts in are from June or earlier. This one’s from mid June, and it’s the most current of them.</p>
<p>When I see high school kids doing music or dance performances and raising 5 - 10000 dollars, or building wells in India and homes in Kenya it looks like a resume building activity. Given the number of hours it requires to organize such an event, to me it seems very obvious that parents are doing all the work and the kids just show up to take credit. On the other hand you could join your local youth council or church group and genuinely put in the 100 hours or so of work or maybe do peer tutoring which I think is a more honest approach to community service. But do the admissions officers see through this?</p>