<p>What are you guys (high school junior)' plan for this summer?
some are takin SAT classes, some are having internship, some are doing volunteer work...
but i hav no idea :S</p>
<p>Any Suggestions for me?
anything that can help me w/ my college application...
since i don't have super high GPA, SATs or ECs...i really should do something meaningful in the summer</p>
<p>please help, and thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Definitely do something that will raise eyebrows (positively of course).
I spent a whole day being "taught" on funeral home business at a big hospital. So I watched and learned how a cadeavor is properly cleaned and suited for funeral process. That was something that admission officers rarely see in resumes.
Also, as a native Korean, I bothered to take a day trip at Demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. Dangerous but also interesting. Got to stand on North Korean land for 2 minutes! Derived a lot of essay topics off from this experience.</p>
<p>This girl I read from a book went on a biking trip across America during summer. Maybe go work as a custodian at a big stadium or subway and learn about the other side of life that you've never been exposed to.</p>
<p>Use ur wildest imaginations to do something very very unique that'll make admission officers remember u at the end of the day.</p>
<p>Hopefully me working with cancer patients at a camp by the American Cancer Society for one week will raise some eyebrows!</p>
<p>thanks!(: any more advise?</p>
<p>i have a strict rigid schedule all planned out.</p>
<p>wake up and eat breakfast.
study for sat
work out
go to bed</p>
<p>@ 3365: My schedule is only half of that, :P.</p>
<p>Random stuff I'm doing this summer:</p>
<p>2 required courses online
AP homework
volunteering
STUDYING FOR SAT/ACT! < Most important!
Starting college essays
I might do a driver's ed course</p>
<p>It's not some fancy internship, but it's all stuff I need to do.</p>
<p>ok so for SAT, r u guys mostly doing self study or course?
do courses reli help?
and yea i hope all of u can share ur summer plan :D</p>
<p>lol don't let SATs consume ur summer!!</p>
<p>Don't just study for the SAT sometimes students do significantly better on the ACT.</p>
<p>Do you something you like; please do not plan your activities based on what you think adcoms will want to hear, as thirstyice seems to have done.</p>