<p>I'm a little nervous right about now. I make fairly good grades right now (3.9 cumulative and a 4.28 this past semester.) My ECs are lacking though. In my high school career, I've participated in Cross Country, Basketball, Tennis, Bowling, and Lacrosse. Clubs on the other hand are at zero. I've had interest in them and gone to call-out meetings for them, but I never seem to follow through and commit to them. I'll have 100 service hours by the end of my senior year by various works around my community. When joining high school, I received an award, The Presidential Scholarship, by a score of 96% or above on the entrance exam. With this, I've been required to take all honors level classes (highest difficulty). By the end of senior year I'll have taken 2 AP and 2 IB courses. I feel such a need right now to join club; ex. Habitat For Humanity; or something of the like. Will joining a few of those type of clubs increase the appeal of my application I guess is my main question. Feel free to comment on anything you would like also. ;)</p>
<p>What kind of college will you be applying and what do you want to study? Also, what year are you? Your ECs appear to be related to sports, so you do have ECs. Are you particularly good at this sports such that you can eventually play a leadership role with the team? (Captain, for example). Can you convince your team to support some community event together? Like quarterly volunteer missions for Habitat for Humanity or monthly volunteer stints together at the food shelf? You have to connect your leadership and community service to something you are already motivated or passionate otherwise it just shows up as hours on an application. If you are applying to highly selective schools, you want your application to tell a story, not just check off boxes on a list (ECs, check; community service, check; good grades, check). A stronger application at a highly selective or selective college describes a person: SwagCity is a strong student that has been taking the most rigorous classes offered at high school X. He is a strong student that participated in multiple sports throughout his high school career. He his a natural leader who coordinated volunteers from various athletic teams to support a monthly visit at the local food shelf, which was particularly needed in town Y this year due to the recession impacts and recent floods. Swag is well regarded by students and teachers alike, not only for his strong academics but also for his support of the student body through his role on the student council. This year the student council supported a town carnival which raised over $Z for the local food shelf.</p>
<p>That’s a person, not a list of stats. If your counselor or teacher knows you and all the list of wonderful things that you accomplished, a college would read this and be able to see the full person and what you could bring to a university.</p>