I want to eventually transfer to a UC from Community college and I was told to start doing extracurriculars now instead of later. If you look at my post history you might know that math does not just “come to me”, but I was thinking about possibly tutoring the math that I do know either at my school or elsewhere.
My question is should someone only do tutoring if they plan to become a teacher or does it look good regardless? My current intended major is Economics and I’m contemplating minoring in mathematics. Are there better/different recommended extracurriculars for economics students? Thank you for any responses.
I think tutoring is one of the best types of EC’s or jobs that a college student can have. It’s a job that one is balancing on top of school, and it’s a job that involves having an ability to explain things to other people. It definitely looks good.
It “looks good” regardless, but you should probably do extracurriculars you actually enjoy. Colleges like to see CC students doing extracurricular activities because their hope is that students will continue those activities once they transfer.
It’s nice to tutor, but at your college, it’s neither community service nor the same as engaging in some EC that drives you to put in hours.
I actually can’t understand why you are thinking of tutoring in math if, on another thread, you say you never “got” math. Did you even get decent grades? This isn’t the sort of thinking people mean, when they advise you to ramp up activities.
I definitely did not mean I would try to tutor people on math that I only got a “C” in. I’ve aced my math classes so far in CC (although I’m not at what I would consider difficult math yet), but I can see how simply helping others with math may not mean much on an application.
What math classes would you be tutoring? I work as a tutor in the tutoring center at my community college, and a big percentage of the students coming in for math tutoring are coming in for remedial math courses that are basically the equivalent of high school Algebra I, Algebra II, and Geometry. A lot of students come in for college algebra, trigonometry, and statistics as well. Fewer students come in for calculus tutoring, although I do get a fair number of students for calculus II. There are other work-study tutors here that aren’t capable of tutoring the more advanced math, but tutor a ton of students in the basic math.