Rate these ECs

Applying to College
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<p>Could you guys please rate these ECs on a scale of 1-10, for top colleges.</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Revision Club
- Founder/President
- Increase grades of students by 2 (e.g. C to A)
- 2 years
- 240 Community service hours by the time of application)</p>

<p>Guitar Club
- Founder/President
- Compete with another club that charges students (ours is free)
- 2 years
- One of the most successful student led clubs in the school (there are many)
- 160 Community service hours by the time of application</p>

<p>Business
- Head of Economics/Business decisions
- Create furniture out of glass (no mainstream glass recyclers in Hong Kong)
- Selected nationally to go to an international exposition where we advertised our product
- 2 years
- Essay topic
- 500 Community service hours by the time of application</p>

<p>Cloud Chamber
- Organizer/Group Leader
- Created a small scale replica of a cloud chamber and documented results
- Gave opportunities to kids in the year who had no leadership (one kid who loved design but had no leadership was given the task of creating the actual product, and heading two other students who assisted him)</p>

<p>Linear Particle Accelerator
- Organizer/Group Leader
- Created a small scale replica of a particle accelerator and document results
- Gave opportunities to kids in the year who had no leadership (one kid who loved physics was given the opportunity to set up the whole experiment with the aid of an assistant)</p>

<p>Student Council
- Elected representative
- 2 years</p>

<p>Summerbridge/Breakthrough Collaborative
- Solo teacher
- In charge of 10 students
- 7 weeks
- Elected out of hundreds of applicants</p>

<p>Varsity Golf
- 2 years
- Got into team after just 3 months of intense effort, teammates had over 8 years of experience
- Essay</p>

<p>Community Service
- 1500+ hours by the time of application including clubs listed above and other small endeavours</p>

<p>Teaching in Xiamen
- Group leader of 6 students from school
- Went on a trip to rural Xiamen to teach English to 20 young kids who had never experienced English before
- 1 week trip</p>

<p>MUN (probably will not put on application)
- 2 years
- No leadership
- Joined because it interested me</p>

<p>Debating (probably will not put on application)
- 2 years
- No leadership
- Love debating</p>

<p>Gym (probably will not put on application)
- 12 hours/week
- 2000+ hours by the time of application</p>

<p>Thanks a lot.</p>

2

<p>Wow. 9/10… This is about as good as it gets, except you aren’t part of some US team or anything like that.</p>

3

<p>This isn’t aimed at you specifically, but I don’t understand why people who have great ECs bother with threads like these. It’s obvious they’re amazing, and posting them just makes it seem as if you’re bragging.</p>

4

<p>Only LINEAR particle accelerator? Dude, that’s lame. Six of my neighbors can already do parabolic particle accelerators. And I’ve heard of a kid doing an oscillating particle accelerator still getting rejected from UC Irvine.</p>

5

<ol>
<li>No major accomplishments (at least based on what you’ve typed). Cloud chamber? Particle accelerator? Good job. Now show us some productivity out of them. </li>
<li>ECs don’t really line up very well - guitar and revision clubs are not community service. Business isn’t communnity service, it’s a business for profit. </li>
<li>3 big clubs, all of them 2 years each? That makes it look like either you crammed all three of them for resume boosting or you did one, quit, did another, quit, then another one. Not much consistency or passion shown there.
Your clubs + gym hours adding up alone total close to ~40 hours/week. Add in varsity sports and other stuff, that’s almost impossible to manage in Asian schools given the extremely competitive academic setting. If you were from some super poor family, it may make sense to pour those hours to a job, but you don’t need financial aid. </li>
<li>You are at Singapore but your business is in Hong Kong? Again, something doesn’t sound right there.</li>
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6

<p>Another braggart on CC? Not shocked.</p>

7

<p>Hey, your resume looks a lot like this guy’s:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/929566-any-chance-economics-uchicago-ea.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/929566-any-chance-economics-uchicago-ea.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Oh wait…</p>

8

<p>What is “Gym”?</p>

9

<p>Somewhat scattered, overall good enough. Push your Cloud Chamber and Particle Accelerator thing to the Adcoms.</p>