<p>I am taking Newspaper class, but we put out a paper and most of the work is outside of class.</p>
<p>Of course it is. Maybe you should organize an entire Newspaper Club, that’d be even more of an awesome EC to put on your college resume.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t know what to tell you. There’s a newspaper school at my HS, but it’s obviously a class and not a club/EC. I mean you say that most of the work is outside of class, but the same thing can be said for some AP classes. I would just ask your counselor. I don’t think you would want to freak out colleges if they saw Newspaper class on your transcript, but also on your list of ECs.</p>
<p>At my school journalism is a class, but kids on the paper still do work outside of class and count being on the paper as an EC–especially the editors.</p>
<p>If it’s listed on your transcript, you probably can’t count it as an EC.</p>
<p>If you become an editor, it counts.</p>
<p>Yearbook and Newspaper are classes at my school, but I put yearbook on my application as an EC, since I’ve been an editor for 3 years (Ed-In-Chief for 2) and therefore put a whole freaking lot of work into the stupid thing outside of class time.
My friend is an editor for both Newspaper and Yearbook and he listed them as ECs on his app, and he’s into Yale. </p>
<p>So, they can be ECs if you put outside work into them, yeah.</p>