Ok… so I’ll be transferring my school in junior year, so my leadership prospects look a little bleak, although I’m planning to start a poetry and crossword club. Will founding a non-profit online literary magazine (already decided the name, guidelines, themes, etc,) compensate for that?
Please, please reply fast!!
Your application will be a collection of information they will look over. It isn’t one thing or another but how you present yourself as a cohesive whole. Whether your magazine helps you or not may depend on the impact, quality, how you interact with others, what you actually do–is your role a writer, editor or what?. Remember, they may not look at it at all, so you will list the years you worked on it and you may need to use an essay to show the place of it in your life.
Relax! Top ECs only matter if you are trying to get into a super selective school, like HYSP - most other schools don’t care.
FAST!!!
(sorry, couldn’t resist… As the others have said, relax.)
thats a bit of a disadvantage but it will obviously be taken into context (something worth mentioning in additional info and counselor’s letter) so make the best of the situation
@jamesjunkers hahahahahhahaha! I don’t know if anyone else got that but that was hilarious
@Homeless2Harvard, thanks, I do it for the fans 
You’re a sophomore now? What’s the rush? There are students on this site who have to commit to a college in 6 WEEKS or less. You don’t even have to apply to colleges for at least 18 MONTHS. Do yourself a favor and calm down.
Pursue your writing and publish your magazine because you enjoy it. If you look for a bunch of activities to pad your ECs with the hope of impressing adcoms, they’re going to recognize it as a bunch of ECs designed to impress adcoms. This isn’t new to them. Do what you enjoy, get involved in your community, and have some fun.
Ok… thanks a lot!