<p>It would also be a great movie....</p>
<p>No, but not taking care of your pets can be a felony.</p>
<p>Helping with home improvement projects for your own house: Not considered an EC. This is considered being a family member. Depending on what you do, however, it may be a good subject for an essay.</p>
<p>Getting paid for doing work on other people's homes: A job is considered by colleges as the equivalent of an EC, a strong EC.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, unless you're applying to some of the country's top colleges, the colleges won't care about your ECs anyway when it comes to figuring out whether to admit you. What the colleges will care about are grades, scores, coursework and class rank.</p>
<p>cristalena-- yeah, im gonna stand by my first post here and say that an essay about compassion, dedication and human care/love is a really powerful essay. </p>
<p>I am personally a bit skeptical of 'what i learned from___" essays- i have seen terrific ones and terrible ones. I know NOTHING of the OP's writing abilities... ur right. I really can't judge the essay until i see it, but i have a perception in my mind and me persoanlly, if i were an admissions officer- i'd rather read a great essay on day-to-day life.</p>
<p>also, OF COURSE somethign like that woudl change ur life. the question is how... do u kiss ur mom goodnight every night before u go to sleep? do u volunteer now with the elderly? do u do anythign from a true need in ur soul that u hadnt before... somethign that u would do even if u had never heard of college? or do u live a pity party?</p>
<p>i dont know u, and so im not going to judge u- but i just want all of the posters here to be able to reasonably undertsand my side- even if u disagree</p>
<p>what if I built my entire house over the course of the entire school year? why wouldn't that count as an EC? </p>
<p>Are there rules somewhere about this? It is definitely extra-curricular, and it is definitely and activity. so, why isn't it? </p>
<p>How about training for eating contests? does that count? I can eat 7 pounds of beans in 20 minutes. shouldn't that count for something???</p>
<p>How about not wasting our time.</p>
<p>Okay...let's all stop with this thread.</p>
<p>I find fhqwgads' story quite amusing. I find it even more amusing that people actually believed it. Ah, the internet.</p>
<p>Is CC an EC?????? Does it help if I become a senior member or if my post count is close to Northstarmom's???? Will getting 10k posts in 4 years of high school increase my chances at Harvard??? If I don't get into Harvard my parents will force me to go to community college because Harvard is the only school worth spending a dime on :(</p>
<p>And omg statistically speaking - if the college knows that you go to CC - that's a better predictor of academic success than a whole swarth of other measures!!!!11</p>
<p>I think you will have the best chance at top colleges if you include all of your EC's, fhqwgads2005. </p>
<p>I am picturing you with one leg, having cut the other one off as it was trapped under a rock. While you are learning to use your prosthetic limb, you are building a new home for your family (with your two good hands). On the job site with you is your two dogs, one of whom needs to be watched constantly because of an eating disorder. You are really juggling things as during all of this you are training for an eating contest (no small feat, because your practicing is particularly disturbing to the anorexic pet). </p>
<p>Since I can only assume that you've maintained excellent grades duing all of your unique achievements, I have high hopes for your admission to a top institution.</p>
<p>I can't believe people actually believe this troll's story. lol</p>
<p>If it were true, it would have been on the news. Or reader's digest haha</p>
<p>I think they would have made a Lifetime movie about it by now. lol</p>
<p>techincally, yeah.</p>
<p>and why isn't my number of posts going up??</p>
<p>Because you're posting in the Cafe. Cafe posts don't count</p>
<p>Cowtipper Quote: "I can't believe people actually believe this troll's story. lol"</p>
<p>I think it was pretty obvious that it was a joke.</p>
<p>Darn it! Why did this get moved to the Cafe? It is a completely serious post, and I really need answers because I'm in the process of completing my college application. What is wrong with that? </p>
<p>Spideygirl, I actually finished with the house (I actually only build about 1/2 of it) about a year before my accident. Also, both of my dogs have an eating disorder. One is anorexic, and the other one is on a strict diet. But that does not stop her from eating pounds of grass every day. LOL. Also, just to let you guys know, it was not my entire leg, I had it amputated just below the knee. Nothing completely extreme.</p>
<p>I think we need a link to a picture of your prosthetic leg before we'll ever believe you. There would be a news story about it, if it actually happened, especially considering all the press that Al Hill got after he cut his leg off with a pocket knife after it got trapped under a tree.</p>
<p>Actually, a picture of you in your hiking uniform, with the prosthetic leg and knife used in the self-amputation, would be acceptable. In the background could be the house you built, trophies from the eating contests, and the two dogs (including the one with the eating disorder).</p>
<p>Can you imagine if all of this were true? Pretty amazing story. Very, very entertaining as a ruse, however. :-)</p>