Help! No clear direction

Applying to College
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<p>People on this site say that colleges are looking for applicants with developed interests who have passoinately pursued one particular activity for all for years of high school.
My EC's are very random. There is no clear focus.</p>

<p>Freshman year
SHAPE
spanish club (I'm not hispanic!)
played oboe and saxaphone in band.</p>

<p>Sophmore year
spanish club member
SHAPE
band</p>

<p>Junior Year (new state and new school)
Newspaper
volunteer club
(school doesn't have a lot of clubs and doesn't have a band)
part time job</p>

<p>summer plans
paid research internship at an immunolgy labatory.</p>

<p>plan to major in either Biology or History.</p>

<p>My EC's don't say much about me as a person and they don't show any interests. I don't have any leadership positions. And my sumer internship came out of the blue. How will this affect my chances at getting in to a good college? Does it even matter as long as colleges see that you are doing something?</p>

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<p>Probably makes HYPS unlikely given that you don't have some hook like being from ND.</p>

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<p>I'm a URM and very low income.</p>

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<p>how did u get the paid research internship? Any idea where I could get one? </p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Spin your lack of focus as an indication of your diverse interests and well-roundedness. Also, somebody else on collegeconfidential said that the oboe is the best instrument to have on your record, as every band and orchestra needs them, and few people play that instrument. A low-income URM who plays the oboe? You should do well in the admissions process.</p>