<p>Hey guys, I have a question about this extra curriculer activity that I have. My passion is to help people (thats why I want to be a doctor). My origin is from a 3rd World Country. I created a charity in that country and have done many fundraisers for the charity. Also I am in the works of creating a website for it as well. I did not do this out of just college, but truly for others in need. However, will this make my resume standout in admissions to Ivies? and could it make up for a low Freshman year GPA? thks!</p>
<p>Many Ivys look at freshman year grades only as a basis to the rest of your application. (The Princeton information session I went to said that freshman year grades were not half as important as other aspects of your application). They want to see that if you didn’t start out well, you made up for that sophomore, junior, and the beginning of senior year. If you continue with your charity and can show a true passion for it in your application as well as higher grades throughout the next three years, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>No, this isn’t especially impressive. In our affluent area, lots of kids start charitable nonprofits without realizing how much of a cliche this is. As an interviewer for a highly selective school, my first question when I see this is always to ask why you started your own charity instead of supporting one of the many that do an excellent job in country x already, have years of experience and infrastructure already in place, can offer subject matter expertise to the beneficiaries and have the backing and oversight of foundations and large donors?</p>
<p>My suggestion, if you are truly serious about medicine and serving the under-served community is to contact your local free public health clinic and start volunteering there. You can get some ‘hands on’ experience that will be invaluable for your future medical school application. And if you want to help them with their web site or fund-raising, I know they’d be pleased.</p>
<p>I think that it would look good. yes, their are others who also start their own non-profits, but the number is a bit exxagerated if you ask me. and many of them just do it for college. I think that if you porttray it right, colleges will see your passion. that should help you stand out</p>
<p>Thks alot guys. and to M’s Mom. I am planning on becoming an EMT at my local hospital, they have this oppurtunity for students to do that in my area. Its actually a pretty tough program, but alot of my friends said its amazing. Would that help me out aswell to stand out in the admission process?</p>
<p>also how else in my application can i show that i truly have passion in this?</p>
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<p>EMT is a great idea - but hard work. At our local volunteer fire dept. it included weekly overnight shifts. But S did it and learned a great deal - and it was cited by the admissions person at his college as one of the ‘stand-out’ ECs.</p>
<p>You can show your passion through your essays where you can write about why you do what you do what drives you and the obstacles and experiences you faced in your journey -that’s why essays are there for…to show your interests and personality.</p>
<p>If its really your passion then don’t worry Adcomms will detect it right away. I agree with the above posters who says a lot of websites are made just before the college apps just to make an impressive resume.</p>
<p>This is entirely my opinion but what you do doesn’t really matter …the depth that you are involved at and heights that you have reached counts more than the activity itself :)</p>