<p>Hey,
would some of the accepted Cornell students post their EC's to give me a slight idea about what Cornell is looking for?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>This is a ridiculous question, sorry. Cornell looks for passion and variety in your ECs, that's the straight up answer...</p>
<p>I was on a state champion hurdle relay track team, on the debate team, a national champion for FBLA (business), and programmed what comes out to about 350 pages of code.</p>
<p>please dont mold your life/extracurricular activities based on what yuou think the college is looking for....if you have no true passions guiding you other than college admissions, what do you plan on doing after getting to college</p>
<p>i second mercury. people have the misconception that cornell wants (hypothetically) LAX players or trombonists or singers or something. Cornell wants passion in your ECs. dont (i second SANGEL) mold your life to what you think cornell's image of good ECs are. Because you'll be wrong, because cornell doesn't have ECs it looks for in general.</p>
<p>The only thing I can say is that its good to have some community service or mentoring type activity to show that you have philanthropic intentions, whether it be randomly helping build houses, or (IMO) even better, giving back in areas related to your interest. I, for example, as an avid musician, tutored elementry school kids in music in an after school program.</p>
<p>Kids who get lucky with ECs are the ones who randomly, coincidentally, and always unknowingly, happen to have something cornell needs that year. If the half the baseball team was seniors, because that class happened to be nasty, then really good baseball players might have an edge that year in admissions. If 4 of the 5 trumpeters in the jazz ensemble graduate, same deal for trumpeters. Or if there are very few music majors, music majors might have an easier time that year.</p>
<p>Bottomline, dont do what you think cornell wants to see. Do what you love, do it well, and do it passionately.</p>
<p>and when i visited, the admissions guy specifically addressed that...i guess they have bigger prob than most bc there are so many colleges that you must apply to one of. he said they saw right through someone picking a college they thought would be easier to get into and then having incongruous (right word?) and weak activities to justify their choiuce</p>
<p>sounds like a good word...yes, if you apply to engineering school having started the drama club, and with Bs in your science classes and As in your humanities, and you took AP englishes and histories and not sciences, and your essay is about E. A. Poe...yeah, that wont fly...</p>