<p>Hi I'm a freshman in high school. I feel like I'm not doing enough ECs. Here is the list:</p>
<p>Model Un
Art club
Jazz band
Timmy club
Orchestra/symphony
Private flute and piano lessons
Volunteering at the hospital and library
Flute choir
Tutoring middle schoolers</p>
<p>I feel like it's not enough! I was going to do Yearbook club, but I couldn't because it was at the same time as Model UN.</p>
<p>Depth > Breadth</p>
<p>Like Hobbit said, it’s much better to be greatly involved in, and passionate about, a few or multiple ECs versus having 10 or so that you’re barely involved in and don’t care for.</p>
<p>Drop the ones you don’t like and you’ll be good.</p>
<p>this is too much</p>
<p>As others have already said it’s better to be very involved in a few clubs than be in a bunch you don’t actually do a lot for. I can’t judge whether or not those are too many because I don’t know how your time is spent at them, I wouldn’t automatically say it’s too much or quit because I’m in about that many clubs and I spend a lot of time at all of them.
It’s good that you’re very involved early into your high school career.</p>
<p>what is timmy club…</p>
<p>You’re a high school freshman. You’re here on these boards looking at people with extracurricular/awards lists a page long and you think you don’t have enough. Realize that they’ve got two or three more years of time than you do. Realize that more is not better. Quantity alone is meaningless. If you have the capacity to seriously engage and contribute in all of these areas—that’s excellent. But most high school extracurriculars are B.S. kinds of responsibilities where you show up to a club every week during lunch, hang out and listen to the officers desperately trying to get the overachieving-yet-apathetic crowd to get involved, and leave after the free candy is distributed.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about enough in the context of quantity. Worry about enough in the context of quality, because it’s not a big deal if you can’t fill out the ten extracurricular slots in the Common App during your senior year. It is a big deal if you have no clue what to write about on an essay because none of your extracurriculars were meaningful and viscerally important to you, and you go and interview and they ask you about your clubs and there’s nothing much to say, and you are faced with the crippling awareness of how pointless all that extracurricular busywork was.</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m getting a bit existentialist here. To be brief: don’t just add more extracurriculars. This is not like filling out your Pok</p>
<p>Those are a lot of clubs. As the people on this thread said, depth is greater than breadth. I have the same issue, and I am going to drop a few. Then I’ll probably really get into the ones left and organize myself so that I can actually do something worthwhile. You should do things that accommodate your interests and plans for the future. Those are usually the ones that give you a boost. Believe me, I’ve seen it work out for others, and besides, if you do too much, you’ll go crazy, especially if you don’t exactly enjoy it.</p>