hey guys im about to be a junior and I barely got any significant EC’s. I mainly volunteer and do some clubs. Any ideas of extracurriculars? I am interested in math, science, programming and the STEM field in general. Please reply as I would highly appretiate it
-Robotics team (Look on the FIRST Robotics website to find teams in your area)
-Academic League/Quizbowl (Competitive)
-Programming club (Any language, it wouldn’t be hard to form one if your school doesn’t have one)
-Mathletes/Science Olympiad (Competitive)
The VAST majority of schools do not care about ECs. Grades, scores and class rank/rigor.
Ah, but @Erin’s Dad, @HugeOverachiever isn’t interested in the vast majority of colleges…s/he wants MIT/Harvard/Yale and now it seems NYU (perhaps as a fallback?).
OP, read [url=<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways%5Dthis%5B/url”>http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways]this[/url] and [url=<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/there_is_no_formula%5Dthis%5B/url”>http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/there_is_no_formula]this[/url].
These are true for all the tippy-top schools.
As many posters have tried to tell you, not taking AP World in Grade 10 will NOT be why you do, or don’t, get into any given college. Equally, a ticklist of ECs is not going to get you in- or keep you out. It will be about how you take what you do- and what you do with it.
ok thank you very much.