<p>Just curious, what do you think is better: having many ec's that one has committed time to, but are all different (i.e. Model U.N, school newspaper, french club, and drama club) or to have a few ec's that one has committed time to and are within their passion/interest. (i.e school newspaper, book club and literary club.) </p>
<p>I was just wondering because sometimes I see chance threads where people list a ton of ec's all different and varying, not that theres anything wrong with that, and people tell them usually that they need to focus more on what there passion/interest is and pursue it, while others have a few that are in the area of their interest and people post that they need more ec's. So i just wanted to find out, what people think of this. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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<p>The problem is that it's hard to tell from a list posted on here whether someone is committed to their ECs or just joined a bunch of stupid clubs to look good for college. </p>
<p>No top college wants the type of kid who lists 20 different activities on his resume and hasn't really done anything meaningful.</p>
<p>That does make sense, i guess it comes down to the commitment and time someone puts into the activities.</p>
<p>Just for perspective, my most involved ECs were a hodepodge (math, writing, spanish, football coach, student mentor, etc) just because I have a lot of different interests. Your ECs don't need to be all in one sort of category if you don't know exactly what you wanna pursue like me. And yeah, everything worked out for me (I know I'm in the Columbia forum (I'll always have a soft spot for Columbia. I come from LI and visited Columbia twice, and it's still probably my favorite campus of all the schools I visited... I intended on going ED but changed by mind in Aug/Sept) even though I'm going to Penn)... My advice would just be do all the stuff you like, don't feel that you need to conform or anything.</p>
<p>I think having a lot of good and committed EC's is a good thing....and honestly, how could someone know what they want to pursue in life in freshman year? Perhaps by junior year when you know what you want and have committed to a certain theme of EC's, you can explain that in your essay or your teacher/advisor of that club would probably mention your passion. Just make sure to express that!</p>