<p>Which are considered more impressive ECs?
I know you should follow up on your interests but just for curiosities sake</p>
<p>NHS or Beta Club</p>
<p>PAC (politically active citizens) or Model UN</p>
<p>Literary Magazine or Philosophy Club </p>
<p>Internship w/ furniture importing company or electronics assembly
(furniture intern consists of filing stuff, more like a job)</p>
<p>volunteering at local library or tutoring</p>
<p>Depends on time spent, first off</p>
<p>MUN
Lit mag.
Internsihp
turtoring</p>
<p>Thanks sr662, I appriciate it.</p>
<p>just a couple more factors...</p>
<p>PAC officer or MUN member</p>
<p>Beta Club 3yrs, NHS 2yrs (available only to junior&seniors)</p>
<p>and can I group them by category instead of clubs in my app.?
ex:
Community Service:
-Beta Club & NHs
Current Events:
-PAC & MUN</p>
<p>Thanks again</p>
<p>I'm really no expert....others?</p>
<p>Do what you want to do, not what you want to put on your app.</p>
<p>contrary to what gmman said, I believe it's important to do things to put on ur app. Colleges wanna see u deeply involved and engaged in ur extracurriculars, which looks good on an app. I've never in my life heard of any of the EC's u listed, but do the ones in which u think u can 1) spend the most time 2) gain the most recognition. That's what colleges look for. Remember, in the end, college admissions is a game, and if u know the rules, u can play and win. Peace.</p>
<p>I'm an alum interviewer for Harvard.
The best ECs are the ones that you enjoy and that you run with by creatively pursuing your interests, happily spending time doing them, and by strengthening your skills, taking on leadership roles, having an impact on the EC or with the EC, and/or by winning awards or other recognition.</p>
<p>In general, the ECs that stand out in admissions for top colleges are ones that students created themselves (and that really were substantial ECs, not resume dressing) or that students made a big impact on such as by reviving a moribund organization. </p>
<p>Depending on how it's pursued, any EC can be impressive. For instance, tutoring can be an impressive EC if one makes a major impact on a student's life (and this impact can be documented by a supplementary recommendation by the student or their parent), creates a fund raising project as a result of what one learned through tutoring (such as being inspired to collect donations to start libraries at Head Star programs or low income schools); decides on a career related to one's tutoring experience (and that career could be anything from deciding to be a legislator to impact the country's educational system to deciding to become a neuropsychologist in order to help people with learning disabilities). </p>
<p>When it comes to the top colleges, they don't care how many hours one spends with an activity. What they care about is how you impacted the organization and how it inspired or changed you. Having a title that's bascially resume dressing, such as if you become your school's MUN president but do nothing to strengthen the organization, is not impressive to top colleges.</p>
<p>When it comes to places like HPYS, most successful applicants that I have seen have had two strong and very different ECs. For instance, a student might be a varsity athlete, statewide champion in that sport, and captain of their team and the creator and chief organizer of a successful school-wide project to raise the funds and build a Habitat for Humanity house. The student also would have been involved in both activities out of their own interest, not to look good to colleges. Frankly, it's virtually impossible to sustain that level of commitment to any ECs without deeply caring about the activities.</p>
<p>Hi i was wondering if you guys and Northstarmom could giver your opinions regarding my extra curriculars...
My Activities
1. ISNA Helper 4 yrs-Yearly Convention which is attended by over 30,000 people
2.QCC Newsletter 6 yrs-Child Care Business I work For
3. Founder of MUN
4.Founder of Weightlifting Club
5.Service Club 3 yrs-over 200 hrs community service
7.Hospital Volunteer-over a 100 hours
8.APNA Ghar-Womens abuse shelter advocate
10. Library Advisory Board
12. Area Representative for my Mosque
13. Mosque community fundraiser
14. Teen Bodybuilder-HOBBY
15. Little Engine that Could Winner in football
16. Football 3 yrs
17. Basketball one year
19 Volleyball 4 yrs
20. Golf 1 yr.
21.Shadowing at Cook County Hospital
22.Research at UIC
23.Research at NIH</p>
<p>Hi, I started a one-man non-profit organization that basically does book drives and donates them to prisoners, poor children, and developing countries. I have gathered 12,000 books so far. Will this make me stand out?</p>
<p>Courageous:</p>
<p>Quoting myself: When it comes to the top colleges, they don't care how many hours one spends with an activity. What they care about is how you impacted the organization and how it inspired or changed you. Having a title that's bascially resume dressing, such as if you become your school's MUN president but do nothing to strengthen the organization, is not impressive to top colleges."</p>
<p>Thus, I can't look at a list of your activities and answer your question. What exactly you accomplished on your ECs and how you present them will be how adcoms will evaluate your ECs.</p>
<p>If you need suggestions for how to present them, there's a thread pinned to the top of one of the boards that addresses how to present one's ECs. For instance, library board member could be just resume dressing if you attended some meetings and sat there and did nothing else. It could be a big deal if, for example, you suggested and organized a new initiative for the library. Adcoms would understand what your position means if you explain it on your application. </p>
<p>Right now, all I see is a laundry list. It isn't the length of the list that impresses adcoms, alum interviews, etc., but the depth of the ECs.</p>
<p>what about me?</p>
<p>i have many extra curriculars also, but i think waht tops mine is that i am editor in chief of 2 major student publications...does that help??</p>
<p>of course not Jdm and alien...try harder next time... we faculty here at community college only want to see the best and brightest with solving world hunger, etc. as ec's gosh!</p>
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solving world hunger
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hey I did that the other day! What a quinkidink!</p>