<p>HI ALL!!!!</p>
<p>I was just wondering if research would count as an extracurricular for MIT/Harvard/Caltech. I did three research projects, and spend a lot of time on them. </p>
<p>Thanks all, buddies!</p>
<p>yes, its worthy things you do not related directy to your hs classroom</p>
<p>It could: depends on how you cite your research time: Is there an end goal? Are you writing a paper under another researcher? One can say his reading of Sports Illustrated is "research" but is it really a hobby?</p>
<p>research is fine, you don't have to have a "result" sometimes it is learning to just "practice" and that "practice" is in EC</p>
<p>You don't need to write a paper, or cure cancer for it to count</p>
<p>If you did three projects, worked with a scientists or such, it will absoltely be an EC</p>
<p>If you say:</p>
<p>Summer of 79- 190 hours- Worked in Research lab assisting with study of Bugs and flight (there doesn't have to be a "result" you could have caught flies with a net and pinned them to a board) it is still research</p>
<p>Not everything is all glamerous and not everything has an "ending", someone could be one of numerous interns in and out of a research facility helping and learning</p>
<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>Thanks for the help. </p>
<p>I wrote three papers, two of which were selected as semifinalist for the semines competition. So, I suppose, they'll count as extracircular activities!</p>