<p>Hi. I am going to be a sophomore in the fall and has been very interested in becoming a foreign service officer and studying at Georgetown's Walsh SFS. However, i don't know what kind of extracurricular activities I should be doing and what kind of organizations I should be volunteering for. Can someone who has applied and been accepted tell me what kind of things I should be participating in besides Model U.N. and my student body government? What Also, should I maximize my history classes in high school?</p>
<p>You should do the extracurricular activities you will enjoy, so that you can make the most of your high school years. Because you enjoy them, you will do better in them, and will write great essays about them later, when you are applying. If you will enjoy Model UN, then by all means do it. It is a great program for those who are interested. Same thing with student government. Doing these will also allow you to make sure that this is the kind of thing you want to do with your life, but make sure you keep looking at other things that you might not even know about yet.</p>
<p>History is great, but colleges don’t trust much of the History you learn in high school, especially U.S. History, where the textbooks are all pretty bad, and the teachers pretty inconsistent.</p>
<p>^Agreed Spend time in high school doing those things you truly enjoy and which could ideally provide some leadership experience. Think quality over quantity. Students who apply to the SFS have very diverse interests and talents and there is not a one size fits all mold. The high school extracurricular activities that tend to be the most common are MUN, student government, class officers, FL clubs, Operation Smile, NHS, FL Honor Societies, summer travel abroad usually associated w/a service project, Page Program at the state or federal level, etc… Then there are those who do jaw dropping things like spend summers traveling with nomadic tribes in Mongolia, all the while learning the native dialect and then decide to do a gap year as an intern helping to set up an investment bank in Mongolia. No joke! So, sky is the limit. Take your talents and interests to the highest level putting your unique stamp on whatever you decide to do.</p>
<p>^Mongolia doesn’t have nomadic tribes. It also doesn’t make sense to learn the “native dialect” unless you know the language itself in the first place.</p>
<p>^ Urberville </p>
<p>You cannot be serious in saying that Mongolia doesn’t have nomadic tribes. More than a 1/4 of the countries population still lives a shepherding nomadic lifestyle. Although settled agricultural communities are becoming more commonplace, nomadic families still dominate countryside. </p>
<p>You absolutely do not have to be proficient in a language before you can pick up and learn a local dialect. He never claimed to have mastered or reached proficiency in Khalkha. On the contrary, what made his adventure so extreme was that he first spent 6 weeks in Ulaanbaatar gaining a working knowledge of Khalkha and then went out to live with two different nomadic tribes in two different regions of Mongolia. If you have ever spent a significant time abroad you know well that sink or swim predicament of jumping into a language, while potentially terrifying, helps tremendously in learning the local vernacular very quickly. </p>
<p>Getting back to the OP’s question…My point was that she doesn’t need to follow a prescribed course of EC’s to get into the SFS. She’s only limited by her imagination.</p>
<p>^Gosh, a sizable portion of the population of Mongolians still lead nomadic lifestyles, but that does not mean that they live in tribes. A huge difference there. Most nomads live only with their immediate families. There can be clusters of families that happen to live close together for a brief period of time that your son might have mistaken for tribes. The only real tribe that I can think of in Mongolia is going extinct and is not nomadic.</p>
<p>Also, learning whatever native Mongolian dialect doesn’t make sense as far as I know, because the Mongolian language is pretty much uniform across the whole country, unless your son went to the very westernmost part, but even there almost everyone speaks standard Mongolian. In any case, you original post would have been more accurate had you simply said “Mongolian” instead of “native dialect”.</p>
<p>^ I received a PM w/links shortly after your 1st post on this thread suggesting I not indulge any of your posts. It seems you have made quite an impression ■■■■■■■■ around the Harvard threads and posting antagonistic comments. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1104628-phone-calls-anyone-also-im-accepted-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1104628-phone-calls-anyone-also-im-accepted-2.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1103968-reasons-why-youll-rejected-7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1103968-reasons-why-youll-rejected-7.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1095452-official-harvard-2015-decisions-countdown-thread-16.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1095452-official-harvard-2015-decisions-countdown-thread-16.html</a> Post #237 so unnecessary</p>
<p>Since I am fairly new to posting on CC, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you were indeed accepted this year to Harvard with a rather low 2030 SAT (your words). Perhaps you could actually answer the OP’s questions and also share your insights into which extracurricular/service oriented activities, classes and courseloads a school like Harvard and other top 20 schools want to see from someone with applying with a 2030SAT.</p>
<p>No need to fall back on personal history creeping when you are answering to a simple factual post. I’m assuming that you are doing this because you realized you were wrong.</p>
<p>By the way, if you had stalked me even more, you would have realized that most of my previous posts were satirical impersonations of stereotypical CC users, as should have been evident from the posts’ ridiculousness.</p>
<p>As for the OP’s question, I believe he would be better off simply using the “Search” button near the head of the page, as this question has been answered bajillion times already.</p>
<p>I will admit curiosity when I received the PM telling me not to feed the ■■■■■ and a link to check out. But listen, I have no personal interest in you or why you choose satirical impersonations to mock students who are worried, stressed or frustrated with the admissions process. </p>
<p>In reference to my prior posts about EC opportunities, I suppose we could argue semantics back and forth but it seems a rather pointless waste of time. It wont do the OP any good and would only serve to further highjack their thread (for which I apologize and intend to do no longer).</p>
<p>As once a wise person said: “No. You’re Wrong. So admit it and just sit there in your wrongness and be wrong.”</p>