<p>Hello, I am currently in 12th grade but I have been investing in real stocks (via online trading sites such as Scottrade) since 11th grade. I usually research for new stocks after the trading hours and when I am at home, but I usually manage my portfolio during school hours by using my phone or a computer/laptop.</p>
<p>Would this be considered as an extracurricular activity or work experience or even both, on the UC app?</p>
<p>Bump.</p>
<p>I don’t know, BUT I certainly wouldn’t even hint that you manage your “portfolio during school hours by using my phone or a computer/laptop!” </p>
<p>I have classes that allow us to do whatever we want during our free time using chromebooks or just computers. (AP Computer Science)</p>
<p>. . . and you’re quite sure university officials will be aware of your school’s possibly unusual policy? </p>
<p>Ehh probably not, but that’s not what my thread is about.
Bump</p>
<p>@Wafflepiezz: Of course it is! If you list stock trading as either an EC or as work experience on a university’s application, it becomes a matter for the institution’s potential scrutiny. </p>
<p>EC not work experience.</p>
<p>You can manage your portfolio during the day without having to be on it all the time. You shouldn’t be doing day trading if you have a strategy anyway. I would also consider it as an EC.</p>
<p>If I were you I would attempt to make a club out of it and mention that as an EC. Personally, I created a finance club “Goldstein (my school’s name) Capital” where I’m pretty much the only one doing any actual trading lol. I built upon it in my ECs section.</p>
<p>@oldfort Everybody has their own ways of managing their own stocks and I’m actually making hundreds of dollars with my own way.
@ds0501 We have 2 finance clubs at my high school and I’m apart of one of them. However, I don’t think being a member matters a lot to colleges, does it?</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies, my high school counselor never responded to my email so I’ll list it as an EC.</p>
<p>Colleges usually like to see leadership positions, but being a member definitely doesn’t hurt. </p>
<p>I don’t actually see this as an EC… sorry, we adults do it all the time and don’t consider it a hobby or accomplishment. Just one more chore to do in life.</p>
<p>It sounds like a hobby if you’re just investing.</p>
<p>A hobby can be regarded as an EC, if you spend lots of time and effort doing something you are passionate, then you can regard it as an EC. colleges just want to see that you have something other than academic work that you’re passionate about that’s all. </p>