<p>If i were to put 5 EC's, which ones should i put out of these?</p>
<p>1) Math team (4 years)
2) Science Olympiad (leader) (3 years)
3) President and founder of USABO club
4) 400 hours volunteering at tutoring center (students from 1st-5th grade)
5) Going to my country this summer and helping fight poverty/getting blessing for my father's death (it is a cultural thing) by traveling around the orphanages of Bangladesh and providing food for them (i don't really have a paper to show i did this, but i feel that this was a meaningful experience)
6) National Honor Society (2 years)
7) Contributor to Bengali/English poetry magazine Shabdaguccha
8) Science Bowl (2 years)</p>
<p>I have cut my EC's down to these 8, but i have heard that 8 is a little more than what it should be. Should NHS be in the awards/honor section? i think 2,3,4,5 are very important, but im not sure about what the last one should be. I have been in the Math team since freshman year, but im not a leader. Should i still put it? My major is going to be something science/math related. What do you guys think i should list as my top 5? or should i list them all?</p>
<p>its a club that prepares you to passing the USABO. We practice past USABO questions after we have learned it in the club. Usually, the participants are in AP bio so they have a pretty good understanding of Biology.</p>
<p>Yeah I agree agc0319. #5 is really hard to understand (i still don’t get it) so putting it in the little box on the app probably isn’t the best place to get that across. An essay would be a much better option. Plus is that really an EC?</p>
<p>It’s difficult to answer your request because you haven’t told us what you achieved in most of the ECs. So take math club for example, was there something special the club did (like a competition), and was there something special that you did to contribute to this success. Or, the Science Olympiad, President of USABO, National Honor Society, and the Science Bowl – same questions. For your volunteering, it’s clearer. Here it would help to know what you achieved. Was there a particular student who went from an F to a passing grade because of you. For the poetry magazine, did some number of your submissions get published. What’s the circulation. Did you get feedback from the editor.</p>
<p>Most of the clubs i participate in take a competition. </p>
<p>Math Team- we take math competitions (NYML, mandelbrot, etc)
Science olympiad- its a competition held in february and we spend the whole day there taking tests. Its a large group of people
USABO- its a Biology test and we go over the topics using Campbells and we take the previous tests to practice</p>