<p>Ok so how screwed am I if im just starting to do stuff outside school,junior year is almost over and I am just starting this summer on community project type stuff/volunteering etc.Planning on Business major to a top school like NYU. Does it matter at all if you have excellent academic performance unless you have EC's?</p>
<p>Better than not doing anything at all ... like me</p>
<p>Were you accepted?are you junior currently, where are you applying?</p>
<p>Sure, it would be great to have volunteered 500 hours with underserved ___ (fill in the blank), but it's not necessarily too late. Do you truly have no EC's? Not every EC needs to be part of a formal or academic program. You can give the admissions committee a sense of who you are by looking at what you do with your time.</p>
<p>What do you do in your spare time? Do you run regularly and enter local 10k's? Do you have an extensive collection of stamps that you archive? Do you have brothers and sisters whom you babysit while your parents work? Do you have a commitment to something outside of school and family? List it and write about it. I'd be surprised if you had nothing to list...</p>
<p>I only really started ECs my junior year, and I have to say that I believe my unique EC activity was the hook that got me into all the schools I applied to. Then again it was a great activity that not many students take part in.</p>
<p>If you're starting now you better be doing some impressive stuff.</p>
<p>what did you do?</p>
<p>Ok so I know its hard to believe but I honestly have nothing under my belt for EC's. I was completely under a rock about how much colleges care about this stuff. </p>
<p>Hopefully, I get into this Youth commission program we have here which means I work with other teens and the city counsel members to introduce new programs and such to the city that would benefit the youth in the city and help raise some money.I know this type of stuff looks good, but how good? If I stick constantly with things like this, will it up make for anything?</p>
<p>Why bother asking? Honestly, it's not like any of us would know the answer. And even if we did, would it help?</p>
<p>And just go for it. Make the best of the rest of high school; do what you want. You'll end up happy, I promise :)</p>
<p>I'm looking for people with similar experiences and what their outcome was, or they might know someone who was in a similar situation and what they did.</p>
<p>"what did you do?"</p>
<p>It's not so much a simple EC activity as it is a way of life. I joined something that changed my life and my entire viewpoint. This was reflected in my essays and app, and it helped me immensely in my opinion.</p>
<p>I think if you find the right thing like I did it's not problem that you only started in your junior year.</p>