I participate in school clubs and I do dedicate my time to all of them. The thing is, I haven’t been elected as an official for any of them, besides the one I created which won’t surprise colleges. I am in government council, school paper, elementary school STEM partner program (volunteer), my own service type club, and that’s about it. I should have joined JSA or Debate but now it is too late!
I also work part time during the weekend at a museum. I participate in fall and spring sports but I’m not varsity material.
How can I improve my ECs? I don’t stand out in this category at all!
Forgot to mention I’m a junior. Thanks!
It’s not all about how many ECs you are in. What matters is what your overall involvement in your world has been like over the past few years. Schools are not interested in hearing a laundry list of ECS. Rather, they want to know what has meaning for you and what were the results/outcomes of your efforts. You could blow the top schools away with only one EC. An olympic athlete will have only one but that one is meaningful. If you did something with the museum on weekends, what was it and how does it fit with your goals. Put together a profile of who you are and what is important to you.
@lostaccount I understand that it’s not just about having a list of ECs. I am committed to the ones listed but I don’t have any type of high status in any of them such as president or secretary etc. I’m not looking to add any more ECs, but ways to help colleges understand I am active those clubs even though I don’t have that president or vp label.
Isn’t student government elected?
I’d think there is some potential to do more with journalism, maybe a journalism camp or internship or writing for an online journal or a journalistic writing/photography competition or becoming editor. I know there is a state and national competition for yearbook, is there something like that for school newspaper? Maybe branch out into broadcast journalism.
But only if you love it. Think about what you do professionally and do things related to that.