I’m a sophomore who currently lives in the UK and am planning to apply to schools such as Columbia, Georgetown, Duke and Brown. However, I am not sure about the strengths of my EC’s currently and how much I need to improve them.
1.) Speech team - been on it since 8th grade, represented school in regional competitions - also will run the team next year and should get to the national finals this year as it is a better team.
2.) Debate team - on my debate team since last year, again represented them in a few national competitions
3.) Soccer/ Football - JV Varsity
4.) Cricket (Its a sport thats popular in England) - my team got to the state final and I play for my state - also selected by my team to go on a cricket tour to India next easter for 3 weeks (highly selective only 12 people are going out of 100 who tried out) 5.)
5.) Cricket related - also work with a cricket charity and helped raise over $15 thousand last summer - help them with fundraising and admin
6.)Public affairs club - been going since last year
7.) International affairs website - just started my own current affairs website which hopefully should be quite good as I have writers from all around the world - interviewed people ranging from Brazil to Singapore and have a team of writers and we all communicate (www.worldfp.weebly.com) in case anyone is interested.
8.) Work with a community planner/charity and we put pressure on local governments to accept 3000 syrian refugees
9.) Last two summers have worked at a charity in India with orphans helping them with their homework and school projects 10.) Have worked for 2 weeks at a law firm shadowing a partner and contributing to a couple of cases
11.) Kumon instructor - taught maths and english there for the last 2 summers
I’m looking to improve my EC’s in some ways by starting a few clubs next year but I’m not sure what else I can do. How can I expand on my EC’s and improve them to make them more sophisticated.
Thanks.