<p>ya no ****, its obviously not going to be about the process</p>
<p>Still, pass.</p>
<p>How good of an EC is qualifying for/participating as part of the US team in an international science olympiad that is a non-chem-bio-physics olympiad (e.g. informatics or earth science or astronomy)? Does this even count as an EC, or just as an award?</p>
<p>I never formally joined a club or the like, I simply took a few tests, was told that I could take some more tests, studied up for about 4 months, and then took more tests 0_0"</p>
<p>I feel that, like stated earlier, a good EC is one your fully committed to and spend a lot of time with.</p>
<p>Like with my Robotics team. We start in September by organizing stuff, getting back together and such. We are a combined school effort, and we have various departments for everyone. We spend 2 straight months, literally sometimes afterschool 2-9 and weekends 12-8 or so, working on our robot and promoting our team. We travel typically to two regionals, Boston and another. The parents make food for the team each late night, which shows effort. People clock in 200 hours for one season, and our team is committed. The point is, something like this is something that would be a good EC. (Sorry if I was more or less promoting myself, just meant to have an example.)</p>
<p>What makes a good EC from a great EC is leadership. If you're being a leader in you're school and community in ECs then it's all the more impressive.</p>
<p>How strong of an EC is being a member of countywide student committees that work on countywide school issues affecting students every day? I am on a few and I am really loyal to my positions on them. I attend a lot of meetings on weekday evenings. </p>
<p>Will it make me stand out as an applicant for top colleges? However I am not on my school's SGA so I don't know if that will hurt me.</p>
<p>I sometimes feel like I am at a slight disadvantage in regards to ECs...I go to a TINY (90 people in grades 9-12) school, and we hardly have any clubs or anything like that. Do you guys know if schools take that into account? I mean, I've been decently active in my community (some service and tutoring)...There are so many things I would have participated in in a large public school, but I didn't go to one. I did, however, take advantage of what my teensy school offered.</p>
<p>I guess my question is do schools just know when your school doesn't offer the things other schools offer? Because I look at other people's sports, debate club, model UN, etc and I'm just like wow I got nothing here and I feel like I'm at a disadvantage.</p>
<p>remember, when it comes to EC's it's "depth, not breadth." the quantity of your ECs don't matter as much as how involved you are. Are you the president? Did you start the club? Have you won awards for the club? Is the club challenging and national recognized (i.e. newspaper, FBLA, NHS, FCCLA, etc... vs. a knitting or comic book club with only 5 members).</p>
<p>Wow the last few lines.. amazing</p>
<p>What is TASP, RSI, WNL?</p>
<p>Totally agree with Mewrue! Im being put at a disadvantage since the school i attend has offered few activities as compared to the other elite schools.
Considering that my results are good (within my school context) but I have no major leadership positions in the activities I had participated. Im really perplexed about my situation!(I felt even worse after reading all the other students' achievements at cc)</p>
<p>Can someone please enlighten me what are my chances of getting into Oxbridge?
(I have yet to take TOEFL/ielts tests)</p>
<p>Asian
Academic:Top 5% of 1000+ student population
Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Class representative of a non academic subject
Class representative of English subject
Piccoloist ,First Flute and Librarian of School’s Symphonic, and Concert Band
(Grade 6,7,8,9, 10, 11,)(6years)
.Indian Dance(Grade 11,12)
.Participated in Physics Olympiad(Grade11)
Volunteer:
• Hospital Auxiliary Volunteer(100hours)
. Founder of Fund raising project for Disabled children with 40 members (50hours)
.Volunteer at National Libaray(40hours)
.Founder of Book drive project (100hours)
.World Vision Famine Camp (30hours)
.School Orientation Leader(30hours)
Work Experience:
.Worked at local hospital in summer
.Worked as a clinic assistant(6months)
Awards
Symphonic Youth Festival competitions - Silver Awards (Grade 8 and 10)
Edusave Scholarship(Grade8)
9 Bursary Awards (Grade4-11)
College Award -Student of excellent value(Grade11)</p>
<p>MY ECs:</p>
<p>1) WATER</p>
<p>working on a sailing ship: training -> training volunteer -> able-bodied (I'm here) -> currently working to become a deckhand</p>
<p>maintenance crew for the ship</p>
<p>capt. of oceanography team in school</p>
<p>used to be on the rowing team</p>
<p>2) ART/SOCIAL SCIENCE</p>
<p>prez of philosophy club (very special)</p>
<p>Intel research on child development **</p>
<p>writes poetry as hobby/gotten published in teen mags</p>
<p>That's ridiculous. Very, very,very few people have such extra curriculars and are able to gain admittance into great colleges. Maybe not Yale, but very good colleges. What I've found is that people who show that they aren't doing the ECs just for college but because they are passionate about them tend to be successful. That means you should spend lots of time consistently volunteering at a certain place or something of the sort.</p>
<p>What if there's one major thing you've been focusing on for over 28 hours a week? Say you started an organization that you commit 4 hours or so to every single day for the past year, or a company, or something that really shows initiative and is not common at all. If this is pretty much the only thing you have (other than the usual MUN, 80 social service hours, Olympiads, etc) what are your chances to universities like JHU, Rice, Cornell etc?</p>
<p>Here are my EC's. I took far more interest in activities out of school than in school. As a result my GPA suffered (3.6 GPA). But I racked up over 1500 hours of community service.</p>
<p>Law:
1. **Internship at Real Estate Law Firm between 8th and 9th grade summer.
**2. **Internship at Insurance Subrogation Law Firm between 9th and 10th grade summer.
**3. Internship at Legal Aid Society between 10th and 11th grade summer.
4. **Founder of an international group that helps administer advice and counsel to students looking at careers in corporate law. I have advised students in Germany, France, India and China. This started in 9th grade, and it is now a network of over 80 people.
**5. Completed 40 classroom hours at Emory University Law School.
6. **Created a non-profit service in 9th grade that helps citizens living below the poverty line find attorneys to help them with their legal issues.
**7. **Professor of Coporate Taxation for an International Orginization that aims to teach working adults skills to advance in their jobs and run their own businesses (since 10th grade).
**8. **Volunteer Paralegal for the National Campaign for Election Reform. (since 10th grade)
**9. **Member of Paralegal Association
**10. Member of FBLA and compete in the Business Law Division, won various regional tournaments (since 9th grade).
11. **Have a published essay on the death penalty.
**12. **Quoted in the New York Times on the foreclosure crisis.
**13. Finance advisor for Association of Human Rights and Torture Defenders</p>
<p>Debate:
1. **Captain of Novice Debate team in 9th grade. Captain of JV Team in 10th Grade. Captain of Entire Debate team in 11th and 12th grade.
**2. **Top 10 speaker awards at over 10 tournaments.
**3. Semi-Finalist and Finalist at state tournaments every year I debated.
4. Attended a National Debate Institute.
5. Intern during 9th grade year at the International Debate Education Association.
**6. **Coached Novice, JV, and Varsity debate (since 10th grade)</p>
<p>Military:
1. Volunteered for VA hospital (since 10th grade)
2. Started an awareness project for homeless vets (since 10th grade)
3. Navy League-Legislative Affairs Volunteer (since 10th grade)
4. Will be completing my Private Pilot certification in the near future through an auxilary unit of the United States Air Force.</p>
<p>Cycling:
1. **Have been cycling since 8th grade.
**2. **On a semi-pro team that competes nationally, joined in 10th grade. The team is a feeder team for a professional cycling team.
**3. Have won multiple regional races.
**4. **Put in atleast 10 hours of training per week.</p>
<p>Technology:
1. **Website designer and maintence for two non profit orginzations.
**2. Certified Electrical Inspector
3. Certified in JavaScript
4. **Certified in C++ programing
**5. Certified Computer Hardware Technician
**6. **Do various computer work for neighbors and non-profit orgnizations.</p>
<p>Additional Volunteering/Certifications/EC
1. **Editor of a newsletter for Refugee Education Sponsorship Program International (since 10th grade)
**2. **Board Member for Global Citizens Corps-Awareness and fundraising group (since 10th grade)
**3. **Advisor for a Hospital Located in rural India (since 10th grade).
**4. **Certified Junior Instructor for Tae Kwon
**5. **Have been playing golf since the age of 8.
**6. **Have been taking guitar lessons since 8th grade.
**7. **Certified in Business Writing
**8. **Comm. Service trip to Israel where I helped repair a town destroyed by Hezbolla attacks
**9. Fluent in Hebrew
10. Started an Ebay Business in 9th grade that made $300-$900 a month
11.Various freelance writing projects. Most recent was a project for a popular online retail store.</p>
<p>^^^You, my friend, are insane.</p>
<p>patriot4, how many hours do you have in your day???</p>
<p>thats an awesome list.</p>
<p>USpatriot4, that's amazing! </p>
<p>Wow how did you as a freshman in high school advise college students looking at careers? And 1500 hours?!?! My friends are amazed when I tell them I have 180.</p>
<p>is mentioning 2 summers of rec swim team and indoor soccer during the winter and spring for two years worth mentioning?</p>
<p>How do my extracurriculars look? I saw the scores that UCDavis gives out for certain categories of ECs (the post was in one of the beginning pages of this thread), and I don't really fit any of those. Are my ECs just completely off topic? </p>
<p>I'm going to apply to University of Chicago, Duke, Emory, Wake Forest, ect. My GPA is a little low, so I might have to rely on my ECs a little more. Do you think I have a chance?</p>
<p>~ 4 years of policy debate-- first in the district in 2008, National tournament qualified (competed in Las Vegas), Quarter finalist and octafinalist at 2 national tournaments, First place at the Samford Institute tournament, several speaker awards</p>
<p>~ In 2008, I single handedly founded an international literary and art magazine which has published works from people from all across the US, Sweden, Canada, etc. It has received around 10,000 readers. I'm also currently the editor-in-chief. I've also designed and maintained the website for the magazine.</p>
<p>~ In late 2008/ 2009, single handedly founded an organization that encourages people of all ages to engage in hobbies that will make their lives more meaningful. It has members who's shared their success stories from all across the U.S. I've designed and maintained the website for the organization.</p>
<p>~ 10 poems/photography published in 8 international literary and art magazines. Each have about a 20% acceptance rate.
~ Established website where I sell my photography, and have had pretty good income in place of a job.</p>
<p>~ Co-president of the AI club in our high school for 3 years. During my co-president years, the club has won the "best interest club" award from our high school.
~ I helped establish another club in our school during Sophomore and Junior year. I'm currently the co-vice president of that club, and it has more than 100 members.</p>
<p>~ Piano for 6 years-- state champion in 2007, honorable mention in state in 2008, district winner for 3 years (fresh-junior), winner of sonata competition in 2007, consistently invited to play in private recitals, etc.</p>
<p>~ I've volunteered at a selective Science center, the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America. I have over 500 hours of community service.
~ I've worked in a lab at a state university over the summer.
~ I've attended 2 national debate institutes over the summer
~Attended a selective Youth Leadership camp during summer 2008</p>
<p>~National Merit Commendable 2008
~Member of the Spanish Honor Society
~Member of National Honor Society
~Member of Mu Alpha Theta, a national mathematics honor society.</p>