UC Requirement or staying with EC?

[mncollegemom]

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By the way, no one pushes kids into those EC-type classes. Those kids are there because they want to be and they do have schedule issues. There is a huge downside of having those activities as classes. It means that top students have to choose between something academic and something like being editor-in chief of the newspaper (in my son’s case) and that they have to lower their GPA and ranking to pursue leadership in those ECs. So usually the kids who are ranked first and second are the ones with fewer ECs.

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<p>Which is exactly backwards of what colleges want to see. The only EC that we have as a ‘class’ is marching band. It is just their fall band class vs taking a concert band in the fall if you are not in marching band. They do get to practice during the school day but they have practices in the evening as well.</p>