<p>The only thing a can list that is good is that a went to Jamaica went on a Missionary trip my church to Jamaica and and ending up saving two lives. I'm not really in any clubs at school. I like to play piano and alto sax on my own time, but not for a group. I was own the step team at church, but since people stop coming to step, they canceled it. I'm feel like I'm screwed. There's really nothing in my area to join. I mean I did do a LOT of community hours over my summers, but I'm not really " dedicated" to anything. My church doesn't really have a lot of things goes beside the choir and that's it. Should I join the choir? I
One thing a hate was the fact that the step team was cancels, because I actually like doing that, I don't like singing in the choir. I did do community service hours with my church. We went to Houston to minster to the homeless and gave them food, we also went out into community once to spread the word about Jesus and our church. I'm reluctant to join clubs at my school next year because colleges might look at it and say I've only been active in them for a only a year and not my freshmen year or sophomore year and declare me as not dedicated. I do plan on taking ROTC and French all my high school years, should I include this as a club? I'm stressed because I live in Texas and we have some really competitive colleges down here and I checked college board and it said that extra curricular activites are under the "very important" section. What should I do? Will my hours of community service balance with me not having not clubs? My GPA is 3.6 unweighted and I also took honors/AP classes so will that help?
Since I was not very active my first two years of high school, will colleges take my junior year in consideration?</p>
<p>Which “highly competitive schools” in Texas are you applying to?
The only “highly competitive school” in Texas is Rice.
With the other ones, top 10% or a decent SAT gets you in.</p>
<p>Your community service activities and engagement with your church is an EC and a major one. So is the music you practice and play on your own. If you really care about your music, try to take it to another level - by playing for your church, joining the school band, forming a group with others, teaching others to play (if you are good enough), writing music, taking an AP music class or an appreciation course at a local community college…</p>
<p>But for most schools, grades, test scores and class rank are really what matters. Letters of recommendation matter somewhat. ECs are just ‘on the margin.’</p>