How many extracurricular activities should I take

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<p>Look more closely, T26E4 was directing their comment at the OP, who wasn’t being sarcastic, not at yoouung who was.</p>

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Take a look at the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Also, there are places for high schoolers to publish stuff–look for them online.</p>

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<p>Okay will do</p>

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<p>Just “Do you, and do you well.” Over the years I’ve realized that’s really the only thing you can do: be yourself, and be the best self you can be. If you do that, in classes, extracurriculars, and college applications, colleges really can’t ask for anything else. There is no ‘model applicant.’</p>

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<p>“and I will do the Society of Future Authors because I really would would like to be an author someday but I don’t know which others on my list of things that I would be interested in doing would be good for me to do.”</p>

<p>This would be better ECs for you:

  1. Write something and get it published (a short story maybe?)
  2. Write for your school paper
  3. Write for your community paper
  4. Write for a literary magazine for your high school
  5. Do searches on-line for writing competitions for high schoolers
  6. Yes, tutoring is considered an EC
  7. As for all of those clubs, you can try them out to see if you like them and stay with the ones that you enjoy. I don’t think any of them will (except debate maybe or becoming a recruited tennis athlete to play in college) will help with admission to Yale.</p>
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<p>Just to add support to this thread - when I applied to Ivies, I didn’t expect to get in. I was in a grand total of 3 activities, if you count senior class president as one of them, as opposed the often much longer array of things other people do. But I thoroughly enjoyed what I did in highschool, and come decisions time, I found out I was deferred to Harvard, but was fortunate to be accepted to 3 other Ivy’s. </p>

<p>It’s unwise to go into the process trying to achieve Harvard/Yale/other Ivy as the ultimate goal. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to go there, but don’t compromise 4 years of your life in highschool working towards this, because after going to college for another 4 years, then what will happen? You probably will fall in an existential crisis since your most ultimate goal was to attend a top school. </p>

<p>Good luck!</p>