<p>Hey y'all. If you guys could take a look at my ECs, that'd be great. I'm concerned about the fact that two of my biggest ECs (Swimming and Boy Scouts) dropped off after sophomore year (but for good reasons...swimming injury and moving to another town kept me from doing the respective activities)</p>
<p>Here goes (in order of importance):</p>
<p>~Running, grades 9-12, 18 hours a week, 48 weeks per year
~Model United Nations, grades 9-12, 2 hours per week, 20 weeks per year
~Boy Scouts, grades 9-10, 8 hours per week, 36 weeks per year
~National Honor Society, grades 9-12, 2 hours per week, 32 weeks per year ~Swimming, grades 9-10, 20 hours a week, 48 weeks per year(yeah, I did do both swimming and running freshman year, and yes, it did average about 6 hours per day, 6 days per week)</p>
<p>Awards and Miscellaneous:
~Local Science fair participant freshman year, promoted to the state level (did a project on running injuries)
~Eagle Scout
~I got 3rd in state in swimming in my freshman year
~Varsity Cross Country (we won state this year!)
~Internship program (will have spent 8 weeks working with a group of doctors in the transplant department)
~Job shadowed a physical therapist for a week</p>
<p>I am really interested in the Multiple Degree BS/MD degree programs that Brown and other colleges have. Will they be able to recognize that my dedication to sports makes it hard for me to do medically-related EC's during the school year? Is just job shadowing enough?</p>
<p>Also, as I originially asked, does the lack of swimming and boy scouts ECs hurt me? Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>From what I've heard it's not the number of EC's it's your performance and dedication in the EC's. Eagle Scout is a good thing, shows commitment. The thing that would make your EC's special is if you were in the top 3 in your state in something. National level is even better. Otherwise, you're just in there with the rest of the pack and will need tough courses and high GPA to have a chance. The GPA's I've seen posted for kids applying to the Ivies's is 3.8 unweighted and higher. Another post said that sports are better than music for the Ivie's, though. Many of the kids applying to Ivie's are into music.</p>
<p>You're barking up the wrong tree.You should do stuff because it is fun and you enjoy it.Doing stuff because you care what other peoples opinion is of it is really (to put it very bluntly) stupid.</p>
<p>Jpro, First of all, he IS doing the things he likes, he wants to know the opinions of other people so that he can attend a good college. How very idealistically great is is for you to condescend other people because you don't feel they are as good as you. He didn't join a bunch of random extra curricular activities just to please a college, he's just wondering--like almost everybody on this forum--how his chances are stacking up, you don't need to unfoundedly criticize him</p>
<p>billybobbyk asked the same questions about his ECs in many other threads. Appreciate what you have learned, look forward and do what you like to do.</p>
<p>How did you make Eagle Scout in tenth grade? Isn't that unusual? Well, I think that your ECs are pretty good. You are deeply into running, and that is good, and you have the state championship. Would you run on a college team? That could be a plus. The med internship sounds good. Shadowing sounds good to me. Again, they are looking for depth. If you can show leadership in running, win more awards, or do more in the medical career exploration area, it will just look better and better. Sounds like swimming is just over for you. The scout thing- I wouldn't force the issue- you have two other ECs. No sense going back to scouting just to look good. However, if you really wanted to, and it fit, fine. For Brown, I've heard that being recruited for sports and/or having spiffy ECs matters a lot.</p>