<p>Do skills count as extra-curricular activities?</p>
<p>For example, knowing a foreign language, a computer language, etc.</p>
<p>No. The only way I can think of making a language an EC is if you learned it through some kind of academic club. ECs are things outside your curriculum that enhanced you during your high school years because you pursued them. Skills count as ECs only if you pursued them in some type of organized environment. If you pursued them on your own, like when I taught myself a lot about web designing, it is a hobby.</p>
<p>As a general rule, ECs are things you spend time on during your high school years. So knowing Java isn't an extracurricular, but teaching yourself Java or taking programming classes outside of school is. Knowing Lithuanian, likewise, would only be an extracurricular if you taught it to yourself or took lessons outside of school--if you grew up speaking it or learned it before high school, it's not an EC. </p>
<p>Note that skills can lead to related ECs, say, volunteering at a Lithuanian community center or designing websites for profit or charity.</p>
<p>lol EC is anything you learn or do outside of the classroom..</p>
<p>Etselec and Carpe basically contradicted eachother.</p>
<p>So is it an EC if I taught myself? What if I'm taking private lessons?</p>