<p>I've really done nothing of note outside of school... I went to anime club for like 2 months in 11th grade but that's really it. I know it doesn't just have to be school clubs or anything, but I've done no sports, I've done no charity work or volunteer work, I've never had any sort of job (except like babysitting my little sister)... I was in chorus in 9th grade, but that was a class, so? I don't know. I'm so worried. :(</p>
<p>Well you gotta give us some stats to go with it XD If your stats are really good then you can stand a shot!</p>
<p>No matter what school you are looking at you are not in an ideal situation. There is a good chance that schools that would be matches would become reaches, safeties become matches and so on. What colleges are you looking at?</p>
<p>What did you do to fill all the time??? I would get bored really fast if I didn’t have a single EC. If you have good stats you still have a shot at college but they aren’t usually going to be ivies or anything.</p>
<p>Well my gpa is 3.35 and my qpa is 4.04 and I’m at least in the top 20% of my senior class… I got a 1920 on my SATs. Last year I took 3 AP courses and I’ve been in like accelerated classes throughout my entire school career. Last year I took AP Lang and got a 3 on the test, APUSH and got a 4, and AP Calc AB and got a 5. This year I’m in 6 AP classes (I’m going to die.); Psychology, Literature (since a 3 isn’t good enough for credit like, anywhere), Studio Art, Economics, Statistics, and Environmental Science. I’m like just scratching the surface of having even remotely impressive stats.</p>
<p>idk, to pass the time I’ve just mainly like, used the computer and slept. I don’t do much, and when I do, it’s just hanging out with friends at each other’s houses. I might join It’s Academic! this year, but today was the first meeting and I couldn’t make it because of a dentist appointment which was disappointing, but I’m going to go to the teacher in charge tomorrow and check things out. </p>
<p>I’ve applied to Albright College and York College of PA and gave my counselor the document request forms, and I plan on applying to Towson University and Washington College soon. Albright wasn’t even originally in my top colleges, but they kept sending me things urging to apply and I figured since it wasn’t far away and the application wasn’t ridiculous, then why not? So I did. I had a list written down somewhere, but I can’t find it… I know Salem College was another choice even though it’s a little far for me. University of Maryland is in my sights, but not like, in the front like where I have Towson, York, and Washington. I wasn’t planning on applying to an Ivy League school, but my mom just wants me to see if one might accept me, so I might apply to University of Pennsylvania since it’s the closest one. (I live in Maryland, the Baltimore area.)</p>
<p>Wow, I just bothered to do the math. My class rank is 37 out of 328, and dividing 37 by 328 gets me .11. I’m just below the top 10, wow.</p>
<p>state schools will be more looking at stats than ECs that private schools</p>
<p>The Common App folks say its members “all share a commitment to the mission of promoting access through holistic admission.” The list includes Albright, Towson, Washington (Md,) and Salem (NC.) </p>
<p>I think you might be yanking our chains here.</p>
<p>I haven’t been using the Common App… I dunno, I just thought I’d ask, because like I said, I’ve been getting worried about putting nothing down for my extracurriculars because I have none. Welp, I’m at least not getting into Towson’s honors college because I’m pretty sure you need some… unless I kick butt on the two essays.</p>
<p>Any other opinions?</p>
<p>When I was doing college tours a few years ago with my son, we asked the director of admisssions at a mid sized state school about the the weight given to ECs. The answer: none. She said it was strictly a numbers game. I was very surprised, but found that to be true at the mid sized to large state schools we looked at.</p>
<p>How many years ago?</p>
<p>You’re better off applying to mostly large state schools. Stay for a year or 2, then transfer to a smaller school if you decide you don’t like it. Try U Delaware, Penn State, West Chester of PA, Bloomsburg of PA, Kutztown of PA, URI, UNH, Rutgers, U Indiana, U of Alabama, UMass Boston, etc.</p>
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<p>I agree with cchlloe. Large public universities tend to value value ECs less then private schools (especially LACs). Though I don’t know if I would suggest Penn State it would be a low to mid reach for you.</p>
<p>Large public state schools are the best bet you have. They look at what you actually did rather than look for the whole “well rounded” garbage. I was easily accepted into Clemson University and University of South Carolina with absolutely no ECs, jobs, charity, or whatever other fluff CCers spend their life on. I didn’t even go to a club once. I had a 3.96+ UW gpa ~top 15% class rank, 3 AP, 1990 SAT.</p>
<p>On college tours they also said it was strictly SAT/ACT/class rank/GPA. In fact, they only cared about Math + Reading portions of the SAT, not even writing. And my 1330 was good enough for the honors colleges of both as well I think. Dunno if they care about ECs, but if they don’t, I might try before sophomore year to get into that</p>
<p>I can’t do much to chance you without stats to back you up. If you can afford McGill, perhaps, with the right stats, it can be anything better than a reach for you, since I know McGill admissions process is one where ECs aren’t of much importance, if any.</p>
<p>Lots of public schools (outside of the top ones) pretty much just look at the stats - GPA, class rank, SAT/ACT etc… and could care less about your extracurriculars</p>