How would you rank these ECs?

Applying to College
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<p>I'm in my junior year now, but these are all things I will continue next year.</p>

<p>National Honor Society (11,12)
Science National Honor Society (11,12)
Spanish National Honor Society (11,12)
Tri-M Music Honor Society (11,12)
Mu Alpha Theta (11,12)</p>

<p>I played bass guitar in my school's production "Rock 'n' Roll Revival" (9,10,11,12)
Also played bass in the pit orchestra for my school's fall musicals (11,12)
Preformed in several small groups with members of my school for events like "Empty Bowls" and a local church's "Coffee House" throughout high school</p>

<p>Member of the school's newspaper (11,12)
-I edit the Opinion Section of our print edition and the Humor Section of our online edition this year. Hopefully, I'll have another editing position next year.
-I also write the advice column if that counts for anything</p>

<p>Rec Basketball (9,10,11,12)
Attended and completed Religious School (9,10)</p>

<p>I currently have about 120 service hours from volunteering at my Synagauge and a summer camp for kids.
I plan to work this summer.</p>

<p>In terms of competitive universities, how would these ECs look with my 4.0 (4.7 W) gpa and 2270 SAT? What else could I do?</p>

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<p>you have nothing to set you apart from the endless thousands of other 4.0s…</p>

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<p>im also a peer mediator (11,12) and serve as a youth representative on my county’s commision on children and youth welfare</p>

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<p>All of them are run of the mill.
You are seriously lacking leadership positions as well.</p>

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<p>Your ECs are better than those of most college-bound students in the country. Your ECs may even help you get merit aid at some schools that offer merit aid. It’s only when it comes to the very top schools–places like Harvard where your ECs would be ordinary.</p>

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<p>Ya, you definitely are lacking. But I would try doing something within those ECs to help you stand out. Like with TriM, maybe you could start a program to bring music to the local elementary or middle schools. Or something like that. Just try to use what you are currently doing to do something more “special.”</p>

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<p>Yeah, they are what a lot of people seem to call a “laundry list” of EC’s. If you’re looking at tippy toppy schools, then you’ve got to go the extra mile, and then another mile.</p>

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<p>ECs are not rankable jeez
do things that you enjoy</p>

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<p>^You seriously think the OP enjoys all of those? Bullcrap. There’s a reason why people call them ordinary or “laundry list” or whatever. People do them to put on the application.</p>

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<p>^ very sad indeed</p>

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<p>its a sad, sad world.</p>

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<p>That made me laugh. Laundry list of EC.</p>

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<p>Oh, my two cents are that your ECs are fine. Nothing that will help you, nothing that will hurt you. Just average.</p>

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<p>REC BASKETBALL? give me a break they are going to laugh at the fact that you are just adding random activities onto your list…
put it this way, would you put intramural basketball on you resume…then don’t put it on your college app.</p>

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<p>OP, don’t listen to these overachievers. Keep doing what you love and keep in mind that probably 70% of college-bound students just go to school and go home and waste their lives away.</p>

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<p>My suggestion: Ditch anything you don’t really enjoy, and put that effort into the two or three things you really like. You’ll get more out of those two or three things, and your ECs won’t look so much like you are joining clubs and doing stuff just because you think you have to.</p>

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<p>Sherwood93 - Your ECs are fine. In 12th grade, consider trimming your list to two things (maybe 3) that you absolutely love and might be elected leader/president/captain. </p>

<p>BTW - I attended Magruder in the early 80’s and all my cousins went to Sherwood. I have really fond memories of going to R&R Revival with them. It was a great show and I’m glad to read that it has endured all these years. :)</p>

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<p>My bad = p</p>

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<p>olleger,
Start your own thread so you don’t hijack another person’s.</p>

<p>A good place to figure out how your ECs rate: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/82799-how-impress-adcoms-your-extracurriculars.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/82799-how-impress-adcoms-your-extracurriculars.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Haha, I’m like the biggest opposite an overachiever can have. I meant laundry list as in the fact that there’s a lot of things that are obvious resume boosters. They’re good EC’s, just not great.</p>