EC Questions/Start Own Business

Applying to College
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<p>So far my EC's are not that great</p>

<p>Volunteer Planting Trees (once/twice a month for 3 years)
Helping my siblings (MY WHOLE LIFE! This is why I don't have time for anything. They are 15 and 10, but my parents are divorced and they are a handful)
Summer Job as Festival Worker (last summer and this summer)
Research at the UW (this summer)
Sports (Track, XC, volleyball, JV in everything)
President/Founder of BSU (just started last week, no black kids at my school, so nothing's going on.)
Volunteer at Thrift Store for Cancer (started this week)
Band (3rd grade to present)</p>

<p>I want to be a science major (Biochemistry), but I really love fashion. I'm wondering if it would be wise to start an online vintage clothing store? </p>

<p>My Plan: is to get clothes from thrift stores, garage sales, and second hand stores that are unique and usually very high priced, and sell them for profit. I even thought of some ways to alter clothes to make them look like things from magazines (jeans can easily be turned into jean shorts by cutting the legs off, colored by dying them different colors, and you can add studs very easily.). I'm also thinking of potentially expanding to a jewelry/shoe line by changing them a little. Advertising can be done through my friends ( I know they love clothes/shopping), Facebook and other social media, bulletins at school etc.. </p>

<p>What do you think? Is this too soon? I have a summer job to get my business started, but I don't know how it will sell? I'm planning on using my money from that job (plus $300 from my mom) to start up. I don't have to many friends so advertising would be very hard, but I like a challenge.Someone I know is willing to help me with the website so hopefully it will look good. If you've done this, or known someone who has, can you give me some advice? Also, if there's a better business I can start that you think would be good could you tell me?</p>

<pre><code> Thanks so much
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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>Do it! </p>

<p>It sounds like a great experience, even if it doesn’t necessarily catch an adcoms attention. Of course, I’m assuming you will enjoy doing it and are not just doing it for college (in which case its not worth it)</p>

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<p>Yeah it sounds really fun to me. I hope it works out. Do you think it would be necessary to get a business license?</p>

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<p>221 views and one response, come on now I need more opinions.</p>

<p>BUMPITY!</p>

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<p>bumpyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy</p>

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<p>Sounds interesting, and I think you should do it for your own enjoyment, not to write a line on your college apps. However, thats not the answer you’re looking for. Basically, Im questioning the value of starting a business in clothing. Yes it is unique, but colleges don’t necessarily look for things just because they’re “unique”. I could start a massively popular porn website, but it wouldn’t be a positive for college (actually, it would probably be a negative). The fact that you want to major in biochem also hurts. If you were an arts major at some prestigious art college, I could see it helping. Otherwise, I think it would be a waste of space on your app, to be painfully honest. Also, you’re thinking too small-scale. For a for-profit business to be regarded as a positive on a college app, it would not only have to be immensely productive, but also revolutionary. Emma Watson created a clothing line and donated millions of dollars from the line to charity (she got into Brown, but im sure for other reasons). If you wanted to turn your business into something, maybe you could somehow make it a nonprofit and use the profits to help poverty-stricken families (similar to something that my organization did). Bottom line, if you want to do it because you like it, go ahead. But if you’re expecting to pass it off as an EC on your app, don’t.</p>