<p>Hi,
I'm a student from the Netherlands and I want to go to college in the US. However, when I see the extra curricular activities of some people from the US I get very intimidated. It's just that here we don't have any ECS such as key club, leaders of america, national honors society or even real varsity teams. The amount of ECs is actually very limited here.
However, I do have about 6 ECs sctivities inside my school (my counselor was kind of astonished when I told him; he considers it as a lot), two voluntary jobs and a summer internship.
Do you think colleges might also look at this in comparison to the amount of ECs available at Dutch high schools?</p>
<p>Community activities, church activities, doing outside research or working a job -- any of these can impress American colleges. They are more interested in what you accomplished than whether you did your activity in school. Indeed, since it usually takes more determination, creativity and independence for students to do activities outside of school, those may impress colleges more than teacher-advised in-school activities.</p>
<p>Thank you! :)</p>