<p>Okay guys, here's my dilemma. I have a lot of ECs but i was wondering if I was doing enough.</p>
<p>Tennis: (no leadership position yet the most devoted EC). In Summer, i join a league and devote at least 6-8 hours a day to it. In Fall, i devote 2 hours every day to Arthur Ashe program. In Spring, we have the tennis season where i devote 2 hours every day to it. I am not the best, so i am not the captain. Still i devote a lot of time to this.</p>
<p>Newspaper: (Sports editor), I love this. I probably wont be editor in chief but still, i love it. </p>
<p>Chess Club: (president), 2 hours a week to the club.</p>
<p>Chess Team: (captain): 3 hours a week to games. Also enter tournaments.</p>
<p>well they thing is most other schools your ECs would have been great, but harvard and princeton are the two top colleges in the country. They will recieve thousands of applicants with aewsome ECs from student body presidents to award winning math/science/etc contestants. I would look for some more distinguishing ECs that separate you from the rest. Somehwere on the lines of winning tornies or even crating some club.</p>
<p>Ill just say this in my school only one person got into harvard. She was our valedictorian. She was in 5 clubs 3 which she ws president and the other two she was an officer. She plays tennis as a sport(I think she was the captain for the girl's team) and had done over 1000 community service hours.</p>
<p>Wharton is the hardest Penn school to get into. NYU is significantly less selective, but still greatly so. Berkeley is near impossible OOS.</p>
<p>To me, your EC's don't look bad at all. The problem is, they're just average. They don't help you show much passion, besides the fact that you like chess and tennis.</p>
<p>You could do more, but don't join a club just to pad your application. Colleges have a remarkable ability to see through that. Get involved in things you love to do, and excel.</p>
<p>yikes. I am doing tennis. I discovered passion for it only 1 year ago and i play day and night and now i am better than some of my friends who have been playing for 5+ years. Still i am not the best though. I think i ll stick with tennis and try my hardest.</p>
<p>Tennis is definitely the standout on this list - I can tell you're way more committed to it than to some of your other EC's. Are there any journalism competitions you can enter? I know my region has some kind of school newspaper competition (I'm not involved in it, so I don't know specifics). Are you amazing at Chess? If so, that EC improves - if you can list "won tournament" vs. "entered tournament", that's a big difference. I don't know what Eco Club is (economics? ecology?) but VP position looks good.</p>