<p>I picked a candy wrapper off the ground once...is that a hook?</p>
<p>1000 lives? You saved the WHOLE EARTH from global warming!
Must be a hook</p>
<p>how about sperm donation?</p>
<p>Okay, aside from the humor, donating blood can definitely be considered "community service". It is not an EC, however. I know it must be difficult with only one useful leg, but that's not an excuse to find other activities which you enjoy. There are plenty of people out there who don't do sports and get into good schools; sports are not essential. And, if you really want to play a sport, try golf? My friend's little brother has a leg problem, but he rocks at golf like no other.</p>
<p>What I'm saying is not that you should go out there and stack up impressive looking extracurriculars, but that you should find something you like to do.</p>
<p>if you give blood like everyday (even though you shouldn't, it's unhealthy, and will kill you) I think it could be considered an ec. I do the Walk for Israel every year in Chicago and I'll put that down on my app once the time comes.</p>
<p>I'm just not sure how legitimate it would be as an EC. Let's say that this kid is 18 years old. That means he gave blood 6 times... That's like 3 hours of community service, tops...Like I said before, colleges like to quantify ECs and community service in terms of hours and days, and this is just not looking like substantial community service.</p>
<p>What did you do the first 2 years of high school? And while I agree that having a leg injury is pretty rough, it doesn't mean you can't do other things besides sports. I never played sports in high school, yet I had an extensive list of ECs. I just don't understand what you did with the your time before you started giving blood and what you do in between those times that you have given blood...</p>
<p>Like other posters have suggested, you should definitely just apply to numbers-heavy schools...</p>
<p>I know a kid who had his kidney out when he was 4, so he was never allowed to play sports for fear that his other kidney would be damaged. He had a job at a hospital and spent most of his time on a school film/video crew. He is now the top med student at UMICH. ADCOMs don't take exscuses; they are nothing more than opportunites to excell in something else</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure the Red Cross comes to just about every high school in the USA every year. They come to mine anyways, and it's very popular</p>
<p>Sure, put it in. You will go far.
Just don't tell them what you do with the $.</p>
<p>With the exception of athletics (and excellent football players are in great demand at most schools), most colleges don't include ECs as part of admissions decisions. The colleges that do are places like HPYS, which have such an overabundance of high stat and strong EC applicants that they can afford to pick and choose to create a diverse class.</p>
<p>Doing community service is not a requirement to get into any college.</p>
<p>Donating blood isn't what I'd consider an EC, though it could count as community service. More impressive, however, would be arranging a blood drive or bone marrow drive because that would show leadership and also would indicate that you'd be able to contribute to the campus culture.</p>
<p>Giving blood, however, is a wonderful thing to do, and I applaud the OP for doing it.</p>
<p>In general ECs are meant to a) show you are a good person (so with the giving blood thing, check) b) used as a alibi to show you didn't spend every waking hour to get the grades and scores you did. So, what did you do with your spare time? Help babysit your siblings? Do chores around the farm? Play fantasy baseball? Jam with your garage band? All those are interesting to a admissions counselor. One admission counselor said a student accepted to their school that stood out spent all his spare time surfing, then starting a surf club, then having the club work with the city to build safer paths down to their surfing beach. Do you have some interest like that?</p>
<p>I hate needles. Last time I went to the doctor's, they had to strap both of my arms down. I should donate blood more often though.. I'm O+, I think.. so I can basically donate blood to anyone.. so I should really get to it.</p>
<p>nevermindddddd</p>