<p>These are all things that I enjoy... Unfortunately, my interests are pretty common...</p>
<p>A few of these are locks, and some will require some work. But I believe that this is a pretty reasonable prediction:</p>
<p>Eagle Scout*</p>
<p>Service club founder/President in tenth, district positions in eleventh and twelfth</p>
<p>Academic Decathlon 10th, 11th, and 12th, probably a few medals with our team not going to state.</p>
<p>Some position in National Honor Society in twelfth</p>
<p>I watch a lot of basketball and post on a forum. In addition, I am beginning to write articles for a fan-site called BleacherReport. I was in Journalism in 9th grade.</p>
<p>Piano for 13 years, but I suck. There are probably six year olds better than me.</p>
<p>Are these too generic? Are they good enough for top schools?</p>
<p>I am a boring person and really don't want to add anything else.</p>
<p>It’s not too bad.
Have you passed any piano exams, won any competitions ??</p>
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No. ):</p>
<p>Piano is far from my main EC. I’m just not talented enough. It’s just something I enjoy on the side.</p>
<p>Well, you definitely have a volunteer hours especially from being an Eagle Scout. I would say you’re above average.</p>
<p>ECs are also what you make out of them. If you’re in Decathlon and your score keeps dropping, you don’t attend NHS meetings, and your presidency in service club leads to nothing, your ECs are just lame resume-fillers. There are people who get into college with just one really good EC. Make sure that you try to excel in one or more of them.</p>
<p>Most schools don’t care much about ECs. HYPS and increasingly the other ivies taking under 12% want off the charts, but it falls off quickly after that.</p>
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<p>I don’t think that’s true. Countless applicants to HYPS – much more than they can accept – have great test scores (let’s say 2200+ SAT I) and GPAs (ie 3.8+ UW). What distinguishes them from their peers if colleges don’t take ECs into much consideration? They’d all be the same. (Disregarding circumstances like URM status.)</p>
<p>At highly competitive colleges the ECs are what matter once you have the stats. My point is that once you get beyond the very top, Eagle scout and lots of service is enough.</p>
<p>I don’t think posting/writing on bleacher report counts as an EC, but if you happen to know otherwise, can you let me know? I post on several sports forums when there is an interesting discussion going on for their respective teams</p>
<p>Overall, you have pretty solid EC’s and being an Eagle Scout will look great.</p>