<p>Mine seem spread out. I feel like colleges will think I'm so scattered.
One of my friends who is a senior (I'm a sophomore) told me about her EC's and they all flow like:
She wants to be a Dentist
Went to dentistry camp 3 years
Volunteers at the Dentist office
Teaches about cleaning your teeth to kids
Went to Mexico over the summer to see cleft pallet procedures done</p>
<p>But I want to be something in the medical field (research/practicing oncologist, level 5 pathologist ect) and my EC's are spread out for instance:
-My classes this year make it seem like I'm in love with history with 3 History APs
-I might have an NIH internship or go to Governor's school for choral music or go to a 4 week science program
-I participate in a lot of musicals
-Church involvement
-clubs that don't relate at all
-Sports on the national competition level
-Mission Trips
-Violin and Piano
-etc etc etc</p>
<p>It seems like one day I'm a theater geek and the next I'm an athletic all star (wow that sounds conceited lol) </p>
<p>Just a lot of miscellaneous.
What about you guys?</p>
<p>I couldn’t imagine doing more than three EC’s lol. I only have piano, FFA and I’m bible study instructor for middle and elementary school kids. I would like to become a veterinarian one day, and the only veterinary experience I had was interning at a veterinary hospital over the summer. I plan on doing it next summer too if I don’t get accepted into the NCI Student Cancer Research Internship program. I feel like having focus is excellent, but it’s also good to see students do other things.</p>
<p>some of mine are a related, but I have a few that aren’t</p>
<p>I think when people say that depth is better than breadth they mean that you shouldn’t have just a bunch of random clubs. having more than one interest isn’t a bad thing. the trouble is when you do everything but excel in nothing. doing a few things and exceling in them is fine.</p>
<p>Yeah mine are pretty spaced. My ECs make me look like I’d want to be a career politician or an actress, whereas my life experiences reflect on what I want to do career-wise.</p>
<p>My ECs are mainly music or youth group related. There’s some intramural sport in there, but that’s only for a couple of years and not with much commitment.
My classes show fairly clearly why I’m leaning towards engineering.</p>
<p>My ECs are both really spread out and at the same time strongly related to each other. I want to go into pediatric medicine, if you break that down to science and children most have to do with my desired career. I work with children with special needs and then I also coach golf for children. Then there is stuff like math club, which is not really sciencey (I don’t care that sciencey is not a word), but relates to knowledge that I need to gain/enjoy. Oh and then I do a lot with graphics/art, but that makes sense since right now I am a visual arts major.</p>
<p>-Medicine/Science (Science Olympiad, Red Cross Club, cancer volunteering, neuroscience camp, EMT, biotechnology competition, shadowing a surgeon, research internship)
-Volleyball (playing boys volleyball, assistant coaching middle school team, managing girls volleyball team, refereeing girls volleyball games)
-Genealogy (research, some awards, indexing records, etc)</p>
<p>Of course, there are also other tidbits here and there, but most of my activities fall into these three categories. I’m thinking of going into genetics because my passions are science/medicine and genealogy, so that kind of combines the two :)</p>
<p>I don’t think it matters whether or not your EC’s are spread out or focused, as long as within those EC’s you’ve done something very substantial.</p>
<p>I group mine, too:
Science/Math/Engineering (Science Olympiad, Robotics, Math Team, Lab Assistant)
Vietnamese/Cultural stuff (Teaching, Dance)
Art (Theater, Dance)</p>
<p>I do everything I do because I actually like it. Quit Key Club, NHS in the first two months of freshman year. Whaddup.</p>
<p>-Robotics(More finance and PR than actual engineering)
-STEM Club
-Yearbook(journalism)
-Various clubs, ethnic and otherwise
-Stock Market Club (though I don’t really participate)
-Some volunteering</p>
<p>I want to work either on wall street or in international business in asia so my ECs kind of relate. They don’t really connect to each other though</p>
<p>Mostly volunteering (I actually enjoy it!)
-Teach the World Online- Program where members teach people in Haiti to speak English
-Environmental Action Club
-Teaching kids Thai language at my Thai temple
-Volunteer at my local hospital
-Key Club (still not sure if doing this club)
-L.E.O Club</p>
<p>and then…
-Asian Cultural Club
-JV Tennis</p>
<p>Well that sums up about everything I’m doing so far.</p>