<p>^^ Yes, I’ve already read that article. </p>
<p>A job shows that you are determined, you work hard, and you have a good work ethic. Low income or high income, they get kids want money and that is considered a positive extracurricular activity. Personally, I think it can only help. Though it may not be the most helpful thing in the world for a college app, most kids have jobs and it can’t hurt.</p>
<p>Wow. I didn’t realize this thread would have provoked such a conversation… In my case, i got my job just because I wanted spending money… since I used $2,000 that I won from a competition to pay for half my car… need to pay the insurance on it and gas and stuff… I didn’t really have an admissions motive involved in it, more so just curious about how it would weigh, anyway, despite it only being a few months.</p>
<p>Although, I am a bit dissuaded now, I joined a large amount of my activities at the beginning of Junior year. I had no idea about preparing for college before junior year… and I didn’t really join my organizations with the aim of impressing colleges… and only recently have I discovered how much this stuff is weighed in admission to selective unis, ah well. Surely starting some things Junior year is better than doing nothing at all, right?</p>
<p>Re: <a href=“Lifting the Veil on the Holistic Process at the University of California, Berkeley - The New York Times”>Lifting the Veil on the Holistic Process at the University of California, Berkeley - The New York Times;
<p>There wasn’t a veil. The Berkeley admission process description has been publicly available for years.
<a href=“http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/committees/aepe/hout_report_0.pdf”>http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/committees/aepe/hout_report_0.pdf</a></p>
<p>Privileged kids are at a severe disadvantage in the college admissions process since adcoms will expect more from a kid who is privileged than from a kid who isn’t. Having a job is arguably one of the best ECs since it conveys a sense of non entitlement. The WORST thing for an adcom to think is that a kid is privileged since they will then judge them on a much higher standard on an already high standard.</p>