<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I'm just here to ask a fairly basic question. Would creating an app for Google android or the iphone/ipod/ipad, a good ec. I plan to make a simple app, but I am doing it by myself. I am just wondering if putting this down on a list of ECs is impressive or destructive. It would be low on the list (for listing by importance) but I think it shows who I am and what not. By the way, I would be an engineering or physics major; maybe C S.</p>
<p>Thanks
conner</p>
<p>I don’t see why not. My friend did that (he was rejected).</p>
<p>^ lol, but agreed. Would look good imo.</p>
<p>This is a great EC; I would totally mention it as an EC or on your resume.</p>
<p>** Dude just do what you like and aPply sideways. Don’t try to purposefully do things for colleges BecaUse USually that doesn’t work out well. THere was AN article from MIT that says you should aPply sideways. Maybe SOMEone can post THE linK. Btw My compUTER is havinG Problems SORRY! **</p>
<p>thanks for the replies, and i’m not doing this for the sake of having it as an ec, it is something I enjoy.</p>
<p>Yes, if you do it, put it on your resume, low, as you had planned. Also include sales/download data if it gets to be an impressive number. If I were an adcom and I read “developed an app!” my first thought would be “OK, cool.” If the next sentence were “It got 10 downloads!” that wah wah wah letdown noise would play in my head.</p>
<p>Put, I put it in on my app, but no as an EC at first (I later changed it for other schools after I submitted the first few. I didn’t really think of it as a normal EC at first, but it really does count especially if you spend a good amount of time on the app. Even simple apps require lots of time.)</p>
<p>Honestly, even for a relatively simple app (mine is called Quad Solver for the iPhone [Connecting</a> to the iTunes Store.](<a href=“Connecting to the iTunes Store.”>Connecting to the iTunes Store.)) I spent a lot of time designing it to a point that I’m happy with the work. It doesn’t matter that it’s free and there’s only be about 8-10,000 downloads in 18 months. (That may sound like a lot but it’s really not that much in retrospect, but I didn’t list it.)</p>
<p>Anyway, I’ve mentioned it in my interviews and usually shown it because it’s a talking point about what I love to do. Self-teaching is a great quality and the downloads / specialization of an app really don’t matter as long as it works.</p>
<p>I wrote one too. ‘AndChat’ for Android with 200k downloads =)</p>
<p>My intended major is CS and I talk about the app in just about every interview. Make your app if YOU want to. I put it in the middle of my EC list because its the only one I’ve published. I’m working on a game for iOS atm!</p>
<p>Depends. Making an app is absolutely easier than the average layman with no programming experience thinks. Making a successful app or a clearly useful/helpful/interesting one is hard. I imagine adcoms will shortly be flooded with CS-type kids who have all built websites and built mobile apps, so it’s not so much building the app itself but how you sell it. If it’s something you’re superenthusiastic about that you think is a fantastically interesting idea, and you’re willing to develop and iterate and seek feedback and improve upon it…yes. The enthusiasm will leak into your application. But don’t do it as a checklist of “things I can do that look good on an application”. If you can’t talk about it with enthusiasm, it’s never going to be an impressive EC.</p>