My EC's lack contests - anyone have any good ones?

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<p>I'm a freshman, and looking at posts from others, determined that my EC's are slightly weak. A main category I'm lacking is demonstrating proficiency at my ec's (boy scouts, soccer, piano, policy debate, quiz bowl) through awards. I lack the skill and suck too much at piano, debate, soccer, and quiz bowl to earn any type of award in.</p>

<p>So i was wondering if you guys knew about any individual academic contests that I could enter, and are worth it. All fields are welcome (my strength is english, my personal interest history, and like a true asian i'm hoping to be premed so science is my focus LOL)</p>

<p>So list any academic contests you may know of !! What was your experience with it? Ultra-competitive?
Thanks for all your help!</p>

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<p>without awards or competitions or whatever, its a bit hard to find the common thread running through everything. but you’re a freshman so you should choose several ECs to focus on and stick to them and become a star in those things.</p>

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<p>–bump--------------------</p>

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<p>you’re a freshman. calm down. most of the contests (math, essay, etc) are open only to juniors/seniors anyways, and to be competitive, i agree with srrinath. pick an EC that you really really like- not just for the sake of a college app - and work hard at it…IE, do you like reading/writing? join debate/mock trial/MUN. do you like math? compete in the AMC, AIME, etc…</p>