I’m a sophomore in high school (GPA is 4.16W just throwing it out there because I don’t really know where I stand with others my age) and I’m just all around nervous about college because it’s never too early to start thinking about college. I’m into CS, and I feel like I have what one might call a “laundry list” of extracurriculars, many of which I took up this year, and for the sake of privacy I won’t disclose the exact names:
- a coding club for girls at my school
- intermediate computer team (started this year)
- honor society for the language i take
- i tutor third graders (started this year)
- JV lacrosse (not sure if I’ll make varsity this year, probably not)
- a nonprofit organization where you design your own cards and sell them, then donate the money to a charity foundation
- a nonprofit organization that fosters interest in CS through workshops that our team designs. I am a member of the production team
- idk if this counts but culture club for my ethnicity
- i also don’t know if this counts because i haven’t won any awards for it but i’ve loved to write since like third grade
I’m worried that because many of these have a really minimal time commitment (some of them are literally like once a month for an hour or less commitment than that), and because I have like no leadership positions and nothing I’m particularly good at, it will look bad. Should I be narrowing down my list, if none of them are particularly time-consuming? Should I find more time-consuming ones? What are some suggestions? Ideally I want to find/pursue things I actually like, but I also want to find something that actually showcases the effort I put in, like volunteering? except i don’t know where i can consistently volunteer every year, usually it’s like one-time volunteering opportunities and i’m not affiliated with a church group or anything.