<p>I'm a fairly good student but have absolutely no EC's. How will this affect me in getting accepted?
Thx</p>
<p>I think you need I have SOMETHING to show that you are well rounded. </p>
<p>DS plays trumpet at a high level and runs track and cross county. </p>
<p>Not much else in the way of ECs but he got full tuition and fees covered at one SUNY school and that plus room, board and books. </p>
<p>I think loading up on ECs is unproductive and unnecessary but showing true commitment to a couple is a very good thing. At least it was in ds’s case.</p>
<p>I think it depends on where you want to go. A lot of state flagships are numbers driven, but some of the smaller liberal arts schools value EC’s a lot more than others. You never played a sport, worked a job, volunteered for anything?</p>
<p>No sports jobs and only 5 hours of community service</p>
<p>Im going to be perfectly honest, you probably won’t break top 25 without substantial extracurriculars. Thats just the nature of competition. Do ECs really matter? They’re really the only things that do matter in competitive college admissions besides essays and recs, assuming that you’ve met the grade and score requirements.</p>
<p>hmm… it depends what you count as “Extracurricular Activities.” My Asian sister got into USC and UCSD with her only ECs being journalism (not EC to some, EC to others; she didn’t become chief editor or anything) and a summer trip to Yosemite working. Those were practically all her ECs. Oh, and she had a 4.0 but almost no weighted classes, and only had 3 AP exams (Calc AB, Psych, and something else, but they were all really easy), all in her senior year.</p>
<p>Trust me, things aren’t as competitive as they say on CC. I’ve seen personally other people get into top 15 colleges with minimal ECs, but killer grades and academic activities. This talk about “you must cure cancer to get into U Chicago” is stuff of fiction.</p>
<p>You would be surprised at what you can count as an EC… my kid collects insects and has monitored a bluebird trail for several years outside of school. She also does a club sport outside of school. She does some other stuff, too, but listed those outside things on her applications as well. Are you a rising senior, or do you have some time to work on this? Worst case – beef up your volunteer hours big time this summer. Preferably in one area/one thing you really care about. Do you work part time? Colleges usually take that into account as a reason for fewer ECs. If you are a junior, can you, um, join any clubs THIS MONTH, then next fall as well, and you could say your were in them junior & senior year? Like a foreign language club or something like that?</p>
<p>It does depend on what type of school you are applying to, but a lot of schools do want to see that you are interested in something besides school.</p>
<p>This is my junior year we finish June 7</p>
<p>Doing something’ out of the classroom makes you a better person in many ways, otherwise your eh, sorry to say, dull</p>
<p>If its work, or helping at home, something anything is better then nothing just as a perosn</p>
<p>Why haven’t you taken up any of the ECs offered at your school, got yourself a part-time job, or performed more community service? Whatever it is that you are doing with your not-in-school time is, formally speaking, extra-curricular activity.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it mat b because I don’t like working around others its awkward</p>
<p>Most colleges don’t evaluate ECs for admission. The ones that do are usually the most selective ones. Given your GPA, those ultra selective ones likely aren’t on your list. </p>
<p>You’ll be applying to colleges that won’t care about your ECs</p>