<p>I agree with Thomas Sowell (you can read the whole book here! <a href="http://www.amatecon.com/etext/cac/cac-toc.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.amatecon.com/etext/cac/cac-toc.html</a> ) Kids should not do EC's and community service to build a resume to get into college. Period. Do what you can cuz you like it or you want to help people. Let the college admissions chips fall where they may. And Sowell is right that admissions committees are arrogant to think that they can judge kids' whole characters, instead of looking only at objective criteria like their grades and test scores.</p>