<p>So - here's the thing, because of family circumstances, I've had to babysit my younger sister since I was in 8th grade, every day, after school, from 2:15pm to 6:00pm - which prevented me from joining clubs or sports for the most part - so the majority of my EC's/Achievements took place during the summer. </p>
<p>Currently a Junior </p>
<ul>
<li>Science/Technology Internship with Dell and Verizon Partnership (1 month) </li>
<li>Generation Citizen - Civics Day Representative at Boston City Year (On going year long project on proposed school budget, which I presented by myself, to a City Year Council)</li>
<li>Model United Nations Summer Assembly at Harvard University Business School (1 week)</li>
<li>Tutoring Pre-Alg and Algebra I to Middle Schoolers through my school's Math Enrichment Program (1 month) </li>
<li>Youth In Government at my local YMCA (on-going) </li>
</ul>
<p>These are basically all I have. No sports. No Key Club. Nothing else. I'm not looking for Ivy League schools - I have a decent GPA (~3.65 and rising) and my test scores are fine - all I wanted to know is if my EC's are "good" too.</p>
<p>you need more leadership</p>
<p>Well - for the science and technology initiative - I was the head of most of the projects - but there weren’t any “leadership positions” per se - it was more of us learning about different computer programs, etc… </p>
<p>For generation citizen - I was in charge of 30 students and oversaw the entire project, and was in charge of presenting it to the board. Basically I was the only person who was permitted to go to the City Year headquarters in order to present it, and I single handedly created the presentation/powerpoint itself</p>
<p>No real leadership in Model UN - mostly just learning modules on public speaking, world affairs, etc - lots of note taking. I did win, however, the title “Secretary General.” But that didn’t really entail much besides the fancy title… lol. </p>
<p>Tutoring - I was the only tutor, I tutored 10 students, created projects and presentations with them, and had little supervision by a teacher, most of the time, it was just me, one on one, with the students. </p>
<p>Youth in Government - yeah, I kinda need to hop on the leadership bandwagon with this one, haha. :)</p>
<p>those programs you were in the lead for i would talk about in your common app extracurricular essay and i think you would be set! :)</p>
<p>Really, if people are on here saying their ECs are inadequate even though they’ve had an internship and proposed projects to their city council and done something at Harvard…I’m screwed.</p>
<p>well the internship was 1 month, and the thing at Harvard wasn’t that big of a deal, Harvard was just kind of the site for it</p>
<p>the city council thing is pretty impressive</p>