Do I have good enough EC's for top non-ivy colleges?

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<p>I'm in 11th grade right now and I feel like my EC's are weak to colleges like Washingon, UCI, UCSD, USF(San Francisco).</p>

<p>My electives:</p>

<p>Golf: 9 &11 & 12 grade year. Varsity 11th and 12th grade
History Club: 10th & 9th grade year but it now has ended due to no one joining.
Academic Team: All 4 years
Church Basketball League: 3 years</p>

<p>I was thinking of starting track this year(11th grade) and doing it next year too, but I heard starting a sport junior year won't help at all to college admissions if I don't win an award or leadership position. Is this true, not even the slightest help?</p>

<p>I know I should join if I want to join. But honestly I can run on my own time but if It will help with my college chances even the slightest bit, I will join it anyways. </p>

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<p>Look, the EC is not the most important thing for UCs, assuming you are instate. </p>

<p>You already have a sport you do at the varsity level, plus another organized one outside school. I can’t see adding running is going to have an impact unless you are going to CIF or state or whatever. Just do it if you want to.</p>

<p>You have an entire year to go after something to add dimension. For instance, since you aren’t able to keep up with the defunct history club, and you are interested in history, then what about doing something on your own or with anyone who was still interested? Maybe there are local resources. You can do an oral history project in your own community. Your librarian might have resources for you. Google around about oral history projects for high school students. Maybe your community has a historical society. Maybe you can volunteer at a historical society or be a docent on a tour of something. By extending and looking for opportunities in things you have done and are interested will be more compelling than running, imo.</p>

<p>Here’s another resource:
<a href=“http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/”>http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>@BrownParent‌ </p>

<p>I’m out of state if it matters, but I will probably take a 1 year break and live with my aunt and cousins to get instate. </p>

<p>Yep, I suck at running so I won’t make state or even varsity. I always run at home to get in shape so if it increases my college chances even the slightest,then why not join since I’m running anyways? If it doesn’t help at all, then I would prefer to run on my own time, but I wouldn’t mind killing 2 birds with 1 stone.</p>

<p>I just want to know if it will help at all if I join.</p>

<p>Also I only joined the history club since it met once every 2 months.</p>

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<p>CHECK WITH THE COLLEGE to see if you can actually do this. It’s extremely likely that even if you live with your aunts, you’re still a dependent of your parents so it’s <em>their</em> state that matters. It’d suck to spend a whole year doing that for nothing. </p>

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<p>Yeah I understand it might not work so my goal is to either get a scholarship from golf which I am really good at, or go to the University Of San Francisco which is a private school. </p>

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<p>It will absolutely not work in CA. Your residence is your parents until you are 24 unless you are entirely self supporting. For privates it doesn’t matter, except to the extent they are interested in geographical diversity.</p>

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<p>Yeah I though so. Anyways I don’t think money will be a huge issue for me, if it is I will just go to a private or in-state college.</p>

<p>I really need a solid answer of my main question. Will it help even the slightest bit or won’t matter at all?</p>

<p>I know I should do it if i really want to do it, but this will influence my decision on whether or not to do it. </p>

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<p>Bump</p>

<p>I have to make a decision really soon since tomorrow is the first day of mandatory conditioning, Any advice will be much appreciated. </p>