Feedback/help on my extra curriculars so far (Sophomore)

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(First of all, I would like to apologise for my english, I’m currently working on my TOEFL certificate and didn’t sleep all night)

I would like to ask for feedback on my sophomore year extra curriculars and maybe recommendations for later that I could do as an International student.?
I‘m aware not everything counts as an extra curricular and belongs to the additional information option

In my sophomore year
•I was student body representative,
• Founded an anti-discrimination council
• was UNESCO representative at my school
• organised a graduation team helping with the planning of the graduation
• planned the whole graduation (venue,decorations,food,managed the money++)
•was in a programme tutoring fellow students
•did a 5 week programme at e-twinning with my teacher (hard to explain)
• held the graduation speech
•created over 20+ extra curriculars planning each one of them (it was up to the teacher in charge to choose which should be implemented)
•did a graduation montage (filmed the school/our class for 2years)
•planned spirit week
•was in the executive committee of my school
•was part of the school conferences regarding students behaviour (if they did trouble we decided whether they get suspended etc.)
•planned school sales
•planned class trips (?my teacher was a bit questionable)

I also got honored twice

So in that year I‘ve discovered that I love managing and organising stuff and I‘m not sure in what way I could push that into a passion?
My main interests and passions are management, humanities, social studies and all that stuff but I don‘t know what sort of extra curricular‘s I can do on a bigger or even national level. I also enjoy doing stuff against injustice in general.

I‘m from germany and we have different categories when it comes to school, so to finish high school I had to change schools after graduating sophomore year at my old school and am now ‘repeating’ sophomore year again (it doesn’t count as repeating it‘s hard to explain)
I already got elected as grade representative and I‘m planning activities where I can also win awards but most of them are for STEM, I have a lot more on my list for the future like taking actual college classes alongside of school etc.

I‘ve also heard, that the schools that i plan on applying to really like leadership skills and I think I at least got that covered. Through doing so much work for the school in general I also managed to build great relationships with my teachers which I hope will help me with the recommendation letters

I‘d appreciate any advice and recommendations on extra curriculars

Edit: I didn‘t add any internships (since they weren’t significant) or other stuff like playing instruments etc. - I genuinely hope I don’t have ‘childish’ extra curriculars I just wanted to ask for advice when it comes to non-stem (?) subjects… like what activities i could do regarding those subjects

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It seems like you are living a great high school life, very engaged. I would say continue what you are doing and follow your natural interests.

Organizing can certainly be a “passion” and a guide to studies and career.

Can you say more about your music/ Do you study with a teacher? Sometimes music can help with admissions, and you could submit a music supplement if schools accept them and you are good enough to warrant that.

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I will try to and thank you so much for taking your time to read what I wrote.

I grew up with instruments, I used to play small instruments like the xylophone as a child, then switched to the flute, piano and then seriously did the violin for a few years. I wouldn’t consider myself confident enough to officially submit something though since it’s been a while.
I did a lot of stuff as a kid, athletics too but I had a burnout in grade 9 which kind of made me unable to follow each genuine passion I had.

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Your list is quite long. I think that you should focus on whatever is the most important to you. I also think that you are doing very well (ignoring grades which are not in your post, unless I missed them).

Also, read the blog “applying sideways” on the MIT web site. The same approach applies to other top universities in the US. As I understand it, it recommends that you do what is right for you, and do it very well. If MIT would be a good fit, then “what is right for you” and “what will help you get into MIT” will be the same thing. “Do what is right for me and do it well” is exactly what I did in high school and I did attend MIT for my bachelor’s. One daughter used the same approach to get into a very good DVM program in the US. However, what was right for her and what was right for me were entirely different things.

I might add that you should look at the differences between the top universities in the US and consider which would be a good fit for you. Also, pay attention to the cost of university in the US, and think about the option of instead getting a bachelor’s degree in your home country and a master’s degree in the US (which is likely to cost less because the master’s is either one or two years, rather than four).

And don’t expect to be able to stay in the US after getting a degree here.

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