<p>Hey just wondering what the incoming class looked like on an extracurricular level? What type of activities did they do, summer work experience, for how long?, and how did they make you stand out.</p>
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<p>Class of 2013 2+2 Admitted Student Profile</p>
<p>Total Applicants 630
Admits 106
% admitted 17%
Undergraduate Institutions Represented 52
Female 41%
International 25%
Countries Represented 15
Average GMAT 718
Average GPA* 3.73</p>
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<li>Excludes GPAs not on 4.0 scales. </li>
</ul>
<p>Educational Background
Humanities and Social Sciences 49%
Engineering and Natural Sciences 48%
Business Administration 3%</p>
<p>Right you wanted to know about extracurriculars…</p>
<p>Anything that shows your future leadership potential.</p>
<p>So founding an NPO, leadership roles in clubs/school organizations, published papers, captain of a university sports team, Olympian, etc., etc.</p>
<p>Are the Politican Science and International Relations majors considered in the group of ‘‘Humanities and Social Sciences’’ ?</p>
<p>It’s hard to tell you exactly what people did since it was so broad and varied. Some worked at prestigious publications, others worked in the nonprofit sector. Some did the traditional corporate America type things, others were in engineering. It’s definitely varied. What’s most important is you key in on an internship that will allow YOU to shine. <em>Don’t</em> take the pencil pushing internship when you can take the one that gives you the opportunity to completely overhaul a system, direct a project or otherwise be a leader that makes a difference. Internships are important - most students had 2 or 3 - but make sure that while you’re there you do more than just get coffee. Or if you do, you also end up spearheading the process on getting your office manager to approve the purchase of only fair trade coffee and recycled paper filters, even though it’s not in their budget, and you do this by organizing a wildly successful office fundraiser, involving people from twelve different departments ;-)</p>
<p>On an extracurricular sense - do what YOU’RE passionate about. Like movies? See if you can start a film society. Event planning? Get involved with your college’s student event committee. Responsibility and leadership flow naturally from involvement, and involvement is easiest (and more fun) in activities you’re actually interested in. Your passion will naturally shine through in your essays and applications, and believe me, they will <em>notice</em> if you are just doing things to “pad the resume.”</p>
<p>And yes, politics/IR are lumped under humanities/social sciences.</p>
<p>Would an applicant still be considered a strong applicant without internships but with very strong extracurriculars?</p>
<p>by strong extracurriculars I mean serving in national and regional volunteer leadership positions with Amnesty International, and working on the national level with a progressive policy organization and publishing several policy white papers and policy memos, among having a near perfect GPA</p>
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<p>Well you’ll certainly still be under contention, but remember that many applicants to 2+2 have impressive extracurriculars during the school year and still manage to do internships. So if you haven’t, it may raise a question. Now if you haven’t done internships because you’ve spent every summer doing research/working at Amnesty international/working for a progressive policy organization (and those things all can fall under the broad umbrella of “internships” - research intern, policy intern, etc, so you may be closer than you think) then that’s different. But if you’ve been super engaged during the school years and spent the summers chilling and drinking mai tais by the pool, yeah, that’ll raise a red flag. An internship certainly doesn’t have to be in business (or paid) to be an internship!</p>
<p>Well, I’m studying engineering. My school offers many summer internships. See if your school does.</p>