<p>Okay well right now I'm in a community college (kind of). The school I go to used to be called "Bellevue Community College" but recently they changed to "Bellevue College". This is because they now offer 4 year degrees. But my school is a community college because anyone can get in. </p>
<p>-Well I have a 3.9 GPA and I'm on the deans list at my school and in PTK.
-Right now I attend a few clubs including the philosophy club, political science club, and the republican club.
-I'm a drum player and I've been playing drums for 9 years so I'm pretty good at it.
-In about a month I'm going to go get my first job (I already got the job, just haven't started yet)
-A couple of years ago when my neighbor ran to be one of our congressman's in our state I did a ton of stuff that helped his campaign (would this count as something?)</p>
<p>I'm going to my school again for another year because I want to get an AA transfer degree before I transfer. Since I'm going for another full year at my school, and having lots of time on my hands. I have a lot of opportunities to do some extracurriculars.</p>
<p>I'm wondering what extracurriculars do you reccomend for me? Since it is evident that I'm lacking extracurriculars. I'm not into sports. I was thinking of joining my student government next year. Also doing some volunteer work (how many hours would be good?).</p>
<p>What other options are possible?</p>
<p>P.S Although I haven't decided what 4 year I want to transfer to, weither it be an ivy league or not. I don't like limiting myself and I'd like to keep my options and opportunities open.</p>
<p>Thanks for your time</p>
<p>For E.C’s, I would reccomend trying to obtain leadership positions in any of the clubs you’re all ready in. Student government would be good. Volunteer work would be good if you can relate it to your major, or some subject your passionate about. For example, if you’re an English major, tutoring underpriveleged children in reading. </p>
<p>You didn’t mention what your major is or any location preferences, so that makes it difficult to narrow down places that would be a good fit for you. With a 3.9 GPA, you have a strong shot at many schools. </p>
<p>Also, have you taken the SAT?</p>
<p>Ah, good old BCC.</p>
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<li>Leadership positions (Student Gov, president of a club etc.)</li>
<li>Work experience, either paid or internships, bonus points for being related to your major. As mentioned above, show passion in what you are involved in. </li>
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<p>Tailor your academic curriculum to qualify you to transfer to the nice transfer schools you want to go to but make sure you fulfill the transfer agreement to get into UW as well as your safety.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to butt into the OP’s question, but I have my own as well that relates to this.</p>
<p>I’m a Chem major at a community college also and I’m just beginning doing (paid!) research in an organic chemistry lab at Case Western. According to the PI, his goal is to synthesize the drug Taxol that used to treat cancer.</p>
<p>Now this is really time consuming (or it will be when I really get started heavily into it) as the program also requires us to attend weekly meetings on campus, do a presentation every semester and possibly go to science conferences around the country. With this on my application (and hopefully a good letter of rec from the professor), especially when I apply to Case Western, would it be fine just to have this as my EC with, like, two other things? I was just invited to join PTK (last spring was my first semester) and I’ll be doing this social justice program for the next two semesters with 21 credit hours for the fall. I have a 4.0 currently as well and I plan on having roughly a little over 60 credit hours when I transfer.</p>
<p>So would only three things listed as ECs, even though one is SO heavily related to my major, still be good enough to get into a top university? (I mean like Case, OSU*, UPenn, Northwestern, Indiana University-Bloomington, where my PI got his Ph.D, and University of Chicago)</p>
<p>*I’m less worried about OSU because I’m an in-state student.</p>
<p>^ No need in worrying about the number of ECs you have. Stick with what you’re interested in and what you can make the most headway out of. If it’s just working in the ochem lab, then so be it. </p>
<p>I think people stress the number of ECs way too much and not what they are actually doing. You sound like a solid candidate to me :)</p>
<p>Being heavily invested and passionate about one thing is worth more than being slightly invested in a bunch of things.</p>
<p>That’s right, Kulakai. Btw, I see you’re from Vegas. Did you transfer from UNLV? I’m going to transfer from UNR…thinking about USC as well. We’ll see.</p>
<p>@KevAquarius - I transferred from CSN actually. I didn’t like the business program at UNLV or UNR at all. If you want to see an articulation history from past transfers from UNR/UNLV/CSN etc. to USC, check out:
<a href=“https://camel2.usc.edu/articagrmt/artic_hist_range.aspx[/url]”>Error;
<p>I used this to plan my curriculum so I’d cover as many transfer pre-reqs as possible before transferring.</p>
<p>Apply for the All-USA academic team scholarship (I think the application period starts in October or November), even at the state level, you will receive recognition and scholarship money. It’s awesome.</p>