Extracurriculars in High School

<p>Hi everyone!</p>

<p>These are my extracurriculars at the moment... </p>

<p>President of Economics Club
- Captains in Economics challenge, Federal challenge, and etc.</p>

<p>President of Math Club
- Doing all the competitions such as AMC, AIME and ARML...etc</p>

<p>President of Doctors club
- Mentoring kids and shadowing doctors</p>

<p>President of Science Club
- Science Olympiad, US Olympiad tests, and Science bowl.. Captains in all of them</p>

<p>President of Robotics Club
- FRC team Captain and driver, World championship qualifier, spread community awareness by volunteering and etc.</p>

<p>YT Math tutoring videos and local tutoring
-Just started this recently (like last week)! Trying to get 500k+ Views by application :D</p>

<p>Volunteering at a hospital in Child care department</p>

<p>I just want to know if you think this is way too "much" and they might look down upon it. I honestly can't quit any of these though.. except for the hospital volunteer program. Do CCs think I should drop stuff and focus on academics instead (i.e. self-study more APs or take more college classes). I'm spending a significant amount of time and a couple has produce very good rewards :P. Any advice would be great! Thank you! Class of 2018's MIT applicant :o wish me luck</p>

<p>Too many activities is never a problem. A laundry list is a problem. The difference is whether or not you can talk about it - do you just say that you’re president, or can you talk about what you’ve accomplished in the club in the role of president (or as a member)? If your titles are just titles, I wouldn’t bother listing them. If you can explain for each one in depth what you do, it’s totally worth keeping.</p>

<p>Exactly what PiperXP said. As an editor-in-chief of one club, a non-president leader in 3 others, and a member of several more, I don’t imagine ever having the time to lead 5 groups! Think about these questions when you apply: How often do they meet? What do you do? What have you accomplished in each one?</p>

<p>Simply being president is good, but like Piper said, make sure you can demonstrate that your leadership was more than just a title :)</p>

<p>I think whether or not all these leadership roles are too much depends on two factors.</p>

<p>1) Do you want to do them? If you say, “I honestly can’t quit any of these though,” through a true sense of internal motivation, you should definitely continue to be in the club.</p>

<p>2) Your surroundings. At a big, highly academic suburban school there would likely be other leaders of your caliber in the student body. If so, I would share some of the responsibility around ala luisarose, above. If you are at a small school, there might not be a deep pool of enthusiasm and leadership, and the club might fold if you declined to lead. Then I would say it makes sense to have that many leadership roles.</p>