<p>colleges don’t really even want you to be in like every single club. Just choose one or two things and do WELL. But also keep a rigorous course load and your academics up.</p>
<p>A guy at my school had a higher rank than I did, a 35 ACT, and had a 4.0 with AP and IB classes but didn’t do much extra curricularly. He got rejected from Vanderbilt. I had a few stellar EC’s and a 29 ACT. I was accepted. So even near perfect grades and scores don’t guarantee you in. For some people tests and stuff just come naturally.</p>
<p>That’s considered an “outstanding” foreign lang. department? I go to a pretty good Public high school and we offer 3 languages up to AP (and 4 when some students choose to take Virgil) as well as four years of Chinese, Latin and Italian. Then again, the school district is incredibly affluent.</p>
<p>^ Okay, perhaps it doesn’t seem outstanding to you but where I live, it definitely is, especially when you consider the dismal state of the Michigan economy. lol. Our public school budget just got cut by a lot. In any case, I was just posting that to show that some of the stats listed on that person’s resume were obviously fabricated. :P</p>