For those of you who Know* the difficulty and rarity of getting a article published in a national science journal, will colleges give me a considerable amount of weight on it?
Couple of people said it would get me into some good colleges (with good gpa, scores), but like one guy said to not count so much on it.
I need motivation to do this very large scale project (takes a massive amount of work), and if colleges don’t really look at it so importantly than i don’t know if I would do it.
<p>i would have to say yeh, it's very impressive because (i think) only actual scientists get articles published and i guess to have that extensive of scientific knowledge in high school is pretty amazing.
but then again, you obviously need great scores/other ec's to balance it all out. work hard on it though, i think it'll help you a lot!</p>
<p>jose1:</p>
<p>Do not concern yourself with what colleges will think. If you genuinely want to do this project, the motivation should come from the challenge itself, not from the resume incentive.</p>
<p>Doing activities just for admissions purposes is a sure way to be unhappy, mediocre, and (most often) rejected. Most CC kids have fallen victim to this at one point in their high school careers.</p>
<p>jose1 - do NOT do anything that you don't want to and remember that quality counts with ECs not quantity. The other thing to ask yourself - what if you do this project and don't get into your "dream" school. Would you be mad that you wasted your time on this project? Would you be spending so much time on this project that your grades will drop? Just a few questions to ask yourself. Good luck with your decision.</p>