<p>Is speech and debate considered a strong extracurricular? How do you being captain of a speech event would stack up to being captain of sport?</p>
<p>Do you think adcoms would know about specific speech events and give more weight to the more difficult ones? What about the different kinds of debate?</p>
<p>Do National Awards have more legitimacy because the results are posted online National</a> Forensic League - High School Speech & Debate Honor Society, Speech & Debate Organization for adcoms to see? What if someone is a nationally-ranked debater in a smaller competition? Would adcoms know about the size of specific tournaments and their difficulty, for example the Tournament of Champions versus a regional competition? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>If you’re looking at top colleges, the measure will be winning at top events, and yes, the colleges know which ones they are.</p>
<p>Captain of a sports team is no big deal unless you are recruitable. Again, if we are talking the colleges CCers love, captain of anything at the high school level is an average EC.</p>
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<p>Sad, but true.</p>
<p>Debate is my strongest EC as well. I’m captain, and I have many, many NFL points. It’s all about dedication to the EC: if you have leadership in it, win at the state level or beyond, and show a love for the activity, it will give you a boost, sometimes a significant one, sometimes an insignifcant one.</p>
<p>An EC is “strong” if you make it. Yes, captain of your school’s forensics team is good–but what have you accomplished in that position? Did you make an impact on the club and influence other members? Did you change some club policies so meetings would run more efficiently? Or did you sit around with your title as captain and do the bare minimum? Have you contributed anything significant to that EC? Along the way, did you win recognition? </p>
<p>Forensics may be a very strong EC for an average student, but CCers generally don’t settle for “average.” So really, what matters is the contributions you made to an EC, not what it is.</p>
<p>That’s what matters.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. This reassures me that colleges know it’s valuable.</p>