How good are my EC's for getting admission in Stanford?

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<p>School House Basketball team
Discipline Prefect(Captain)
Captain of my neighbourhood water POLO team.
Most active student in Quizzes.(Captain)
Campaign for cleaning the city.
Gardening at school
President of GK club
Member of the local swimming club and I am the fastest there!
Sung a lot of songs in school's assembly. Member of the school band.
Programming in JAVA.
Cycling
An administrator of a very successfull page at facebook.</p>

<p>I also volunteer in a neighbourhood hospital , supermarket and I alone volunteer for sheltering local dogs and giving food to them.</p>

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<p>Nobody there to help??</p>

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<p>There’s no point in asking CC members to comment on your activities. We’re not the admissions officers and our yes or no to your question isn’t going to admit or deny you.
The point of activities isn’t to rattle off a list of positions but what you have done with it.</p>

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<p>@savethetrees
You are right, either you have to have significant achievements in your activities or position. also, it depends on your circumstances and how many opportunities are available in your town</p>

<p>Also, you need to tell us all your test score, School stats, and anything</p>

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<p>Your ECs are similar to those of most Stanford applicants. The things that separates the actual admits from the 80% of applicants who “just miss” getting in are essays: most admits have not only accomplished things in but have also GROWN FROM their extracurricular involvement, and they make these points in their essays.</p>

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<p>aleasisctaest, thanks, I agree with you :)</p>

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<p>Thank you stefanbamloo for the advice :)</p>

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<p>hate to break it to you, but you very well may be dooming yourself to get rejected. you can only be the captain and president of so many things. sometimes a short, yet meaningful list of extracurriculars will get you farther than a whole laundry list.
that’s my $0.02, but i’m just basing this on past CC threads where some people were in so many activities where none of them really mattered. </p>

<p>best of luck</p>

<p>also, the biggest mistake you can make is spouting how your ecs have defined your life in your essays. that’s boring, nobody cares. wow them with your essays, no admission officer wants to hear “dribbling a basketball lead to my success as a person” those essays just come off as phony</p>

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<p>Thanks sillyup ! you said absolutely right! How much weight EC’s carry for an International student whose school has very less oppurtunities?</p>

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<p>ECs are big for all students, but like i said it’s not about the quantity. people with 3 ecs that they’ve stuck with for 4 years will get in over somebody that lists 10 or more ecs. dedication to an activity is much more important than the number you have.</p>

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<p>Now , I understand ! It’s all about quality! But , I don’t have won any major or regional award in my favorite EC’s , am I in disadvantage?</p>

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<p>I will also be applying to UCLA and Berkeley</p>