<p>I don't know if I'm posting this in the right place, so excuse me if I'm not. Anyway, I'm worried about my extracurriculars. I'm currently a sophomore involved in the following activities:
Spanish Honor Society
Math Honor Society
Leadership Club (since 9th grade)
Sophomore Advisory Board</p>
<p>I'm really interested in Computer Science/Engineering, but I don't feel like these clubs represent my interests. I also enjoy volunteering and that's probably all I'm going to do this summer. Do you guys have any suggestions on what types of clubs I can join or what I can do over the summer to show my interest in the computer science field? Thanks.</p>
<p>Learn a coding language and say you like write programs in your free time. Make more and more complex programs and maybe some that can be used on your school website.</p>
<p>We have Science Olympiad at my school which I’m defiantly doing next year. The robotics team at my school is REALLY good and they stay after everyday to work on their robot. I can’t do a commitment like that since I’m looking for a job next school year.</p>
<p>OP-- your ECs do not have to reflect your interested major. they have to reflect who YOU are. maybe you’re passionate about something else… make it show.</p>
<p>i’m also interested in the same major… and the only thing i’ve done that remotely major related is learning programming at community college right now</p>
<p>^ You also have no results to show whether that it adequate. </p>
<p>I’m not saying it isn’t because I really have no idea what’s necessary to get into a computer science program, but I just feel like I should point that out.</p>
<p>do you have counter results? just curious.
many adcoms have said while they like to see that someone is consistently strong with one passion, they want a well rounded person strong in all areas. the OP could do comp sci things academic wise and maybe have all of her ECs dealing with charities, etc</p>
<p>I don’t have any counter results, which is why I also said that I’m not saying it isn’t adequate. I don’t know anything about computer science programs, but I wanted to point out that your plan isn’t proven to work so you can’t really recommend it yet. </p>
<p>you should totally do it! i volunteered at a camp for children with learning disabilities (downs syndrome, ADHD, autism, etc) for three summers (then moved to a diff camp)</p>
<p>good!
and no there aren’t, but that makes me even more unique (: there are more women in the science field, but it’s still good to see more women :D</p>
<p>Maybe you can start a computer club at your school, if it doesn’t have one already. Otherwise, yes you should learn some programming languages, and apply that knowledge to make real results.</p>
<p>Btw, I wouldn’t choose ECs on the basis of whether or not others think they’re decent; decide for yourself if you’d want to do it (not trying to sound too harsh here, but just trying to make you remember that since they’re your ECs, your opinion comes first )</p>
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