<p>So throughout my high/middle school career my mom has always told me that ECs are wonderful for college admissions, they'll love them. Which has resulted in me being a member of around a dozen ECs. Now I am going to be a senior and am realizing that I don't really care for half of the ECs I am involved in, and the ones that I do care for I did not put as much time into as I would have liked. </p>
<p>Will colleges look at my ECs and think "This girl is all over the place," or "She can't have enough time to be truly devoted to these ECs?" </p>
<p>In a word, yes. You should have committed yourself to the ECs that you care about, and not wasted time on ones you don’t just because colleges like to see ECs. </p>
<p>Too late to change the past, but senior year you should drop the ECs you don’t care about and focus on ones you do.</p>
<p>I mean I didn’t half-ass everything, I ended up being the head of three of the organizations, and tried to do the best I could with my time, but didn’t do anything outstanding with them this past year (ex: didn’t raise money to send the Irish club to Ireland, or submit the school newspaper’s articles to writing competitions).</p>
<p>Don’t worry about being amazing. Honestly, I was in probably a dozen ECs, and didn’t even bother putting some of them on my application, like cross country (I only did it senior year, and only to prepare for lacrosse). The commonapp only has room for like 6 or 8 different ECs, so just put the ones that you were most devoted to. I know I put the max on, but didn’t bother wasting my extra space with ECs that didn’t show anything about me. I’m still glad I did cross country, but I tried to focus my reader’s attention on what really mattered to me, and it must have worked a little (Brown 2013).</p>