How weak are my ec's...?

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<p>How weak are my EC's for Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley and Ivy League Schools?</p>

<p>EC's:
co-founder and secretary diversity club (secretary 1 year member 3 years)
co-founder Music Club (secretary 1 year member 1 year, it died after 1 year)
piano (since 7th grade)
CSF member (4 years)
key club (member 4 years, editor 1 year) - about 80-100 hours from this
100 community service/recreation hours
Internship at a cancer research center/hospital
self-taught guitarist (idk if this is an EC)</p>

<p>Thanks
-Martain-</p>

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<p>have you won any piano awards? have you recorded anything?</p>

<p>Your ECs are OK, depending on where you wanna go, but still, they seem pretty bland.
Nevertheless, they prove constant participation throughout high school in several activities.
Best of luck!</p>

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<p>^^ I haven’t won any awards. I make beats so i guess recorded?</p>

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<p>UCLA and UCB don’t put that much emphasis on ECs, just an fyi</p>

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<p>Seems good, nothing spectacular though.
Will be sufficient.</p>

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<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Pretty decent. Though I’d drastically triple to quadruple your volunteer hours to be sure. And compliment your musical skills by teaching kids to play instruments that are handicapped/not privileged for your volunteering. </p>

<p>If it grows to be a this big organization in your community, you’re even more set bud ~_-</p>

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<p>Assuming you’re in-state and you have a good GPA/SATs, you’re fine for LA and Berkeley. Otherwise, your ECs are pretty weak for those private schools.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the input guys, anyone else?</p>

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<p>Fine for the UCs.</p>

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<p>The research thing is actually pretty good if you want to study some sort of science… maybe accentuate that on your application if you’re interested in a science oriented major.</p>

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<p>How off am I for Stanford and Ivies?</p>

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<p>I would say you have fairly decent ECs compared to other people, if I were you I would focus on your internship in your applications (for the EC part).</p>

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<p>“fairly decent” I will take that. I can’t help feel discouraged though when some people on CC have amazing stats. Anyone else care to enlighten me?</p>

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<p>its not so much the clubs themselves but what you did in them or how the club contributed to your community
what exactly do the diversity club & music club do? i dont know & im sure an admissions officer doesnt either
try to think of major events or accomplishments in each EC you can mention & for ivies or any quality private school focus on being unique but still geniunely commited to each EC</p>

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<p>^^^ thanks a lot, great advice!</p>

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<p>BTW, my unweighted gpa is either 3.99 or 4.0. And my sats are 1850 but lets say i get them to like 2200 with good satII scores. How am I looking?</p>