There’s a province-wide teacher work-to-rule protest going on in my province in Canada, which essentially means all extracurricular activities are canceled for an indefinite amount of time until it’s resolved.
I have extracurriculars, but none of these are athletic or from my high school. I was planning on doing both of those types of extracurriculars this year, but then the protest happened and now I’m unsure whether I’ll have the opportunity to take these types of extracurriculars.
I’m looking at applying to a couple of the Ivies and Stanford next year, with one of the Ivies being EA in October 2018.
If I’m unable to take any high school extracurriculars between now to the time of my applications due to the work-to-rule protest, will this lessen my chance of acceptance?
There are so many things you can do outside of school. ECs are not just school based. Use your initiative. How can you get involved in your community? What can you do to make a difference? Enter some competitions. Get an after school job. Design and research something. You might even be able to write a great essay on how the teachers strike gave you a good reason to be involved in soemthing you hadn’t done before.
And I am confused becasue you say your ECs are outside of,high school, but you are talking about not being able to get inolved with high school ECs. If you can’t be inolved in high school ECs, then you have to carry on with your other activities or find some new ECs.
ECs don’t have to be at the high school. It can be anything you do outside of your academics. You can volunteer in the community, get a part-time job etc… And if, as you say, none of your ECs are in your HS now I don’t see why you would be impacted.
You seem to think that ECs are things someone else sets up, all the most selective US colleges care about is whether you signed up or not. In this view, ECs are like AP classes; if your school offers them you need to sign up, but if not you’re off the hook.
Actually these are the kind of students the top colleges hope to screen out. They look for kids with initiative, the ones that start something that enriches their life/learning/community (although any given activity will be stronger in some areas than others).