Extracurricular Plan - please be honest

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Here’s my list:

Political Science Club - Founder, President
StuCo - Current officer, but running for VP for junior year
Student Body Core Leader
NHS - only open to apply this year, but planning to run for office
MUN - planning to run for officer
Internship on a State Representative campaign
Member of my high school’s board
100+ service hours

Here’s my colleges that I am looking at:

Emory
Vanderbilt
Case Western
University of Florida
OSU
Georgetown
W&M
Cornell

Please review this list and tell me what I can improve on. Please do not tell me to become the state champion in debate, because we all know that is not really realistic at this point. I am open to suggestions in positions to try and get though.

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Do what you love! This all looks great! I see a bunch of leadership which is great. Do you have safety and match schools as well?

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@bopper OSU is a match/safety for me. About 70% of the students from my school get in. We are a very competitive high school about 20 minutes away, so they are pretty aware of my high school. As for others, I will probably apply to Pepperdine and I haven’t quite figured out another to be honest. I want to join the Stock Club, but I am scared it’s going to change my spike. Any advice on that?

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do what you love, and do it well. don’t do extracurriculars because they look good on paper. your extracurriculars are much, much more impressive than mine were/are. you’ll be just fine.

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@kalons Thank you! I do love what I am doing, which is great! I just want to make sure it’s enough to compete with top students.

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it’s a really good plan for poly sci! keep us updated on whether or not you get those leadership positions or not!

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It seems good. The key to getting into reach schools is how you present to them your EC’s. Make sure you put together a formal resume and write strong essays.

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I’m interested in starting a polisci club at my school? Can you tell me what you guys do?

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One simply does not create a club for the sake of getting into a college.

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@MrElonMusk Who said they were starting clubs solely to get into college?

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@MrElonMusk I didn’t. I love political science, and I have enjoyed running it very much. It’s been a huge success at my school. The whole goal, especially afternoon Parkland, was to come together. @whoknowswhere25 I did an introductory presentation on the first meeting, but then I picked a topic for the first meeting, and we did it. Then I had people vote on what they wanted to talk about next (with some boundaries), and we are talking about that topic this week! We usually have 25-35 people who come, so it has gone well. This list is also outdated btw.

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@bodangles I was referring to @whoknowswhere25. @ab2002 Not trying to attack you. Kudos to you for doing activities that truly interest you.

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And who said whoknowswhere25 isn’t “truly interested” in political science?? They just asked for advice on how to get a club off the ground.

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@bodangles Please let me clarify my statements. I never assumed @whoknowswhere25 's intentions or interests. My comment

is only meant to serve as a friendly reminder to current HS students. From my experience, too many of my HS clubs were created for the purpose of being written on college apps.

I’m probably digging myself a really big hole right now with my comments…

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@MrElonMusk No, your point is completely valid. It happens a lot.