What are your extracurricular activities?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I am not involved in many ec's but I want to take part in more. I volunteer quite often so I have many service hours. I realized that I need to gain more experience in leadership, since the colleges I want to go to consider leadership qualities. </p>

<p>What extracurricular activities do you do and what are some things I could do to show leadership?</p>

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<p>Stuff I currently do:

  • Chemical engineering mentorship/internship type thing at local plant (50 hours)
  • I’ve worked at McDonald’s since last June. I work around five hours a week during the school year and 10-15 during the summer.
  • I play the piano and take lessons. I’ve been playing for about 8 years but I’m not very good because I never practice. I’m not going into music or submitting a music supplement, so colleges will never know. :slight_smile:
  • Scholastic Bowl. Started this year.
  • Environmental club. Sort of an offshoot of my school’s science club. Started this year.
  • Volunteer at public library (every summer since 6th grade)</p>

<p>Stuff I used to do:

  • School musical ensemble (last year)
  • Cofounded book/filmmaking club with other library volunteers. We don’t meet very often but supposedly we’re still a thing. I dunno. :frowning:
  • Volunteered at Vacation Bible School for one summer.
  • Volunteered at Safety Town the summer before last. I wanted to do it last summer but they didn’t have it due to lack of funding.
  • Science fair last year. I did not place, despite there being only five participants. :o</p>

<p>I don’t have any leadership either, really. I don’t win club elections, and I can’t think of any projects to start myself.</p>

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<p>Volunteer hours are my weak spot. I used to volunteer more at the beginning of high school but I never really kept track of any of it and its going to be a huge pain when I need to sort it all out for applications this fall…</p>

<p>My ecs are also very inconsistent. The break down is:</p>

<p>This year:
Cross Country (August-October): ~15 hours a week
My Job (November-current) ~20 hours a week
FBLA ~2 hours a month
NHS ~1 hour a month</p>

<p>Past ecs:
Track (January-May 2012) ~15 hours a week
Soccer (September-October 2010 and April-June 2011) ~10 hours a week
Reffing Soccer (2010-2012) ~8 hours a week, seasonal
International Club (freshman year) ~2 hours a week
Volunteering at church (freshman and sophomore year) ~2 hours a week</p>

<p>Yeahhh no leadership…</p>

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<p>They don’t care about the actual hours, do they? I don’t actually keep track of the hours.</p>

5

<p>Marching band: I play bass drum.
Show Choir: I’m in the band and play the synthesizer.
FBLA: I’m a state and local officer.
Indoor drumline: I get to play mallets with this! ^.^
Academic team: Captain
NHS</p>

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<p>Halcyonheather: I think you actually do have to fill out the hours for some schools. I’m not looking forward to having to figure that out, especially since it varies so much week-by-week. Especially for things like quiz bowl where I might study one week and then not the next.</p>

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<p>Yeah, you fill in hours on the Common App, I think. I have some idea of how much I’ve volunteered but I haven’t kept all the records. It’s not that much because I always have to work when volunteering places are open, even though I don’t really work that many hours.</p>

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<p>I have that problem as well. I don’t have many regular volunteer commitments save for my violin/piano tutoring and hospital escort duties. Most of my volunteer hours are random and fairly miscellaneous. It’s going to look like a laundry list.</p>

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<p>I don’t do that many…
I do my own science fair research (even submitting different projects to different ones!) and participate in my school’s SciOly Team that hasn’t gone to states for two years. I am vice president for that. I also participate in an art club (Treasurer) and trivia club (bibliographer). I’ve been playing cello since I was six. Sports participation is iffy, with only two seasons of sports through high school. I have 200+ hours in volunteering.</p>

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<p>Currently:
Student Council Executive Board (leadership)
Debate team
Business Professionals of America (I’ll probably get a leadership position by the end of the school year)
Asian American Club (i’m not Asian lol)
Freshman Mentors
Volunteering at Church 100+ hours
Tutoring Middle School’ers </p>

<p>Past ECs:
Cross Country (2 years)
Law Club (disbanded)</p>

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<p>c/o 2014 - moved to a new district for 11th so here are my stuff :slight_smile: what do you guys think?</p>

<p>creative writing
literature and film club (11)</p>

<h2>published on various journals (10, 11)</h2>

<p>intern at online news site (10)
summer writing camp (9) </p>

<p>visual art
creative director for local ngo (11)
published on art magazines and journals (10, 11)
non-profit design business (9, 10, 11)
member of art collectives (8, 9, 10, 11)</p>

<p>social science</p>

<h2>mun (11)</h2>

<p>full year research (9 [2], 10)</p>

<p>regular community service
weekly tutoring (11)
fundraising project (11)</p>

<p>languages
chinese, japanese, spanish</p>

<p>others (miscellaneous or completed)
trek in india in summer + conference (10)
junior varsity / varsity sport (Middle School + 9, 10)
intern for cancer research (10)
miscellaneous community service</p>

12

<p>Softball, I am a volunteer coach, I work 25-30 hours a week (since October), national honor society and girls to ladies (I secretay an it’s a community service, outreach/mentor program)</p>