<p>I have a friend that is a little too young for CC, but has a blog and wondered if she could put it on your app on day. I can email the link if you want, but since it's new and short, I don't want to post it.</p>
<p>Absolutely not.</p>
<p>that does not qualify as an EC. Most colleges will not find that very impressive</p>
<p>even it has a ranking in the Top 100 read blogs of the day/week/year? even if the blog becomes featured on blogs of note on blogspot? etc.</p>
<p>^ Maybe it’ll be worth a mention then, but what are the chances of that happening? Do you know how many blogs there are in the world? It brings a picture to mind… [url=<a href=“http://despair.com/blogging.html]Blogging[/url”>Blogging - Despair, Inc.]Blogging[/url</a>]</p>
<p>thats like the fat guy on the numa numa dance claiming fame. internet fame isnt noteworthy. it feels desperate</p>
<p>my 2 cents</p>
<p>Blogging is an interest, not an [extracurricular] activity. IMO. Unless it wins the “Best Blog Ever” Award, she shouldn’t mention it.</p>
<p>If she posts often, has a large following, and it takes up a significant part of her schedule, then I say yes. </p>
<p>I read a lot of fashion blogs by teenagers and twenty-somethings. Some of them have gotten so famous that they design lines for high street stores and have celebrity followings. (Jane from Sea of Shoes is the best example of this. Tavi from Style Rookie, who is 13, is another good example.) You just have to make sure that the writing is top-notch so, when an admissions officer checks it out, they’ll be impressed. It must be interesting and engaging, or else you just killed your application.</p>
<p>Don’t listen to the above posters; maintaining a blog really is an adequate hobby just like karate or writing poetry. Just because it’s not a traditional activity doesn’t mean it’s not important.</p>
<p>The percentage of college professors and administrators who maintain blogs and personal websites is much higher than the population at large so the idea that they don’t take them seriously or view all blogs as a waste of time seems awfully silly. Yes, the blog should be quality work if it is to be mentioned, but if it’s well done and maintained over a period of time it can be a great way to demonstrate creativity and wherewithal. A well written blog can say a lot more about an applicant’s proactivity and intellectual curiosity than, say, a Key Club membership.</p>
<p>Yeah you see, right now, I do not think the blog is any good. After all, she is going to high school this year. I am pretty judgemental. Do any of you want the link to see what you think?</p>
<p>^ Maintaining a blog is probably better as an EC than dissing one’s friends on College Confidential. Before you post a link to the blog of the “friend” you’re dissing, you might consider what her reaction will be when she follows the track-back link here and finds the multiple threads you’ve started in your quest for people to agree with you that how she chooses to spend her time is bad. I’m starting to wonder about this “friendship.”</p>
<p>um, I am friends with this girl. Genevieve is three years old than her. Okay, she might not know her that much. By the way, those posts were deleted because she thought that she was no expert in the field. We live like next door.</p>
<p>j00 and Genevieve, do either of you know what “discretion” means?</p>
<p>Facebook is a pretty time-consuming EC.</p>
<p>srs biznes</p>
<p>being responsible in conduct. I want to think making a blog is a good ec, but I don’t really know. I haven’t even started the college process that much yet, besides being almost finished with high school.</p>
<p>@ ansar: agreed. I wonder if I should have put Facebook as one of my extra curriculars. I mean, I spend a lot of time writing on walls, sending bumper stickers, and basically maintaining friendships online… it’s a way to show college admissions officers that I’m social and friendly and concerned about others in a way that being in Science Olympiad can’t, ya know? AMIRITE or what?</p>
<p>You’re reaching out to a very big community.</p>
<p>I call that pretty helpful to society.</p>
<p>I would say if the blog is well written and interesting, sure. If it the “Today I went to JC PENNY!!!” kind of blog, obviously, no.</p>
<p>It’s like anything else. A blog could be an excellent extracurricular on a college app if it’s important to the applicant, fits well into an overall set of academic and non-academic interests, and is brought to life in one of the essay prompts. ECs are, by no means, limited to school clubs and so forth.</p>
<p>Perhaps your friend could flip the question around and start asking college how much they value blogging. Then, she could only consider those schools that value HER interests.</p>
<p>This is the process by which students start to find a “good fit” by matching up their particular interests with schools that value and nurture those interests, whatever they may be.</p>
<p>Sure you should put it down as an EC. An EC is anything you routinely spend time on. I put going to the gym down as an EC, and I got into Harvard, Princeton, Duke, Dartmouth, etc. But keep in mind that I wrote the CommonApp short essay about going to the gym to expand upon it and demonstrate its importance in my daily life. And that essay was very creative and very meaningful. I suggest you do the same if you list blogging as an EC- most EC’s explain themselves, but the less commonly listed ones do not, and any chance to add some flair to your application should be utilized.</p>
<p>When applying to elite universities, anything you can list that shows depth or breadth of character should be listed, IMO. The fact that you keep a blog tells much more about you than a membership or ‘officer’ position in yet another hollow high school club. Just because it isn’t as boring as the usual EC, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be listed (or even highlighted) on an application.</p>