<p>Graduated HS in 2012, I'll start going to community college this fall. </p>
<p>Plan to apply to transfer to top schools, among them Georgetown (which accepts about 20 applicants from my CC every year, my number one choice) John Hopkins, and some Ivies (I highly doubt that I'll get accepted but I'll still apply. Save your words I know they are even more difficult to transfer to, but my school has had students that have transferred to Yale, Brown, Stanford, so its not impossible to transfer from a community college and yes maybe they were Ivy material since high school, but I don't see why they would have attended CC if they could have gotten into Ivy league schools, especially since cost is not really a factor since this schools have great financial aid packages)</p>
<p>I plan to take part in EC activities, get a 4.0 GPA and get into an honor's program that my school offers. </p>
<p>My question is this: when it comes to filling out the transfer applications and I have to mention my EC activities, would I have to talk about my EC activities during high school? or do they only look at what you did those two years in community college? I know they ask for HS transcript, but that doesn't include the EC activities. Do they ask you what EC activities you did in HS?</p>
<p>I messed up in that aspect of high school, I only have like 3 activities and they are not big. I didn't really volunteer outside school, nor did I have leadership positions, except for treasurer of one club.</p>
<p>The first two years I went to a "ghetto" school, and due to my immense ignorance I didn't stay after school due to the fear that I would find my self at night getting chased through an alley, despite the fact that even though it was a gang filled school that would have been unlikely and many kids were doing great things. Ironically enough the EC activities I took part in were in that school, but I took part in them after i had transferred to another school. The new school was "better", took honors and AP classes and I kept my GPA high, but I couldn't make friends, maybe because I was used to being around "ghetto" kids and this were all wonder-land white, Asian, and white Hispanic kids (not being racist or anything, just stating that I couldn't communicate with them). Ironically the reason I participated in the other school was because I kept in touch with my teachers who I consider friends, and who the majority were white. My plan when I transferred was to do EC activities at my new school, but I didn't and now I regret ever transferring, especially since at my first school I was the smart one, the only one in the sophomore class to get a 4.0 GPA both semesters of sophomore year, among the 7 students who had scored advanced in the DC CAS, I stood out, and at the other school I was just another student with good grades among many.</p>
<p>It's dumb how I realized so many things after HS, despite the fact that I had a general idea during HS of what I needed to do to get into a good university, but now its too late and my hope is to do great in CC so I can get into a good school but I don't want my lack of HS ECs to keep me back. </p>