<p>I know that its good to have ECs. What I'm not all that sure about is what counts as an EC. For example going on school exchanges with schools in other countries for a few days/weeks, does that count?</p>
<p>does anyone know?</p>
<p>anyone? Does it look good, or doesn't it matter?</p>
<p>I've heard that year/semester long is a strong extracurric, but I'm not sure how much weight weekish-long has. It definitely doesn't hurt, and shows some degree of internationalism...</p>
<p>If you do something like an exchange program, you'll probably want to write about it. At this point you can go one of two ways. The first, and you don't want to do this, is to say what you did there. The second, and the optimum path to take, is you writing about what the program did to you. What was it about your experience that had such a profound impact on you that you want to share with adcoms. They will not care if you narrate about a summer in France living with orphans. If you write about the significance of your experience as a human being, then adcoms will give a listen.</p>