<p>Athletics- Crew Captain (Sr. Yr.) (Varsity 10,11,12) (Four seasons a year)- 19 hours a week</p>
<p>Co-Founder of a Club (12)
Vice President (12)/Secretary (11) of a Club
Editor of Literary Magazine (12)
Student Council Delegate (9,10,11)
Active Volunteer at Animal Shelter (11/12)- 125+ hours</p>
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<li>Dishwasher for 12+ hours/week during school year & 20+ hours/week during summer</li>
<li>County chairman of student environmental organization</li>
<li>Hopefully will have won a variety of writing/film contests by time I apply :P</li>
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<p>As for the others, just a plethora of sports (XC varsity, captain), clubs (a few presidencies), and so on.</p>
<p>I’m a state officer and chapter president for FBLA plus I’m the only student business representative in my school district.</p>
<p>1) Riding & showing horses for 10 years
2) Choir – we sang in Carnegie Hall last year
3) 3 years on student government, including designing and supervising the painting of our senior rec room and organizing senior arts night</p>
<p>Nothing else really stands out – theatre, mock trial, quiz bowl.</p>
<p>I doubt this is really a “killer” EC since many, many people seem to be multilingual, but here goes. Over the past 7 years, I’ve been engaged in language self-study, as well as volunteer opportunities related to foreign languages and the like. Although my family linguistic background includes only English and Mandarin, I’m fluent in both of those, as well as French, Spanish, and German (scored 5’s on the AP’s in all languages except German, which I’m taking this May, and an 800, 800, and 790 on the French, Chinese with Listening, and Spanish subject tests respectively). For those who are familiar with them, I also obtained a few internationally recognized language proficiency certificates (DALF C2, HSK Advanced, DELE B2, Zertifikat Deutsch B1 - in French, Mandarin, Spanish, and German respectively). I volunteer as a teaching assistant for a Spanish class, serve as a free language tutor, work for an online translation service, and volunteer at a Christian publishing company. I even worked on the German translation of the New Testament at one point. My most current project includes studying Latin and Ancient Greek. </p>
<p>Of course, I have other EC’s, but this is by far my most significant one.</p>
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<li><p>Underwater Basket Weaving: A lot of national awards</p></li>
<li><p>Tiddlywinks: About 10 years</p></li>
<li><p>Member of at least 15 school clubs: Tons of participation!!! (even if i have to miss every third meeting!!!) </p></li>
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<p>:D</p>
<p>^ Nice 10char!</p>
<p>4 year volunteer at SEA LAB, an organization created by the LA Conversvational Corps. Earned two presidential volunteer service awards for my work here!=) logged almost 400 hours here, and nearly 500 by the time i leave for college.</p>
<p>Cross Country is a second close though: Team captain, most improved award, chosen as a team recruiter, Varsity letter</p>
<p>1.Teaching deaf kids matriculation stuffs (300+ hours)
2.Student council vice president ( grade 10,11)
3.Debates and presentations on drug abuse at Myanmar Anti-Narcotic Association</p>
<p>~Varsity co-captain, cross country. 25 hours a week, Texas state champions this year.</p>
<p>~Named Dragonslayer of the Year (11,12) by National Medieval Monthly.</p>
<p>I started an online business in my 10th grade, made a considerable amount of money, more than a public school employee. Had to deal with huge MySQL databases, maintenance and structural conversions, had to keep my server-side services up all the time, debugging in PHP and c++. My webserver had 5000 unique hits a month.</p>
<p>I guess people really don’t think it’s that great of of an EC, but I’m Captain and All-State in track and cross country, and our team has been ranked in the midwest by ESPN Rise. Apparently I’m too one dimensional though. My only other EC’s are NHS and Science Olympiad. Too late to do anything about it I guess.</p>
<p>It’s a misconception, colleges like “one-dimensional” kids it shows passion and focus , kids with ECs all over the place seem like stat-padding kids with no passion.</p>
<p>The fact that I don’t have any good EC’s?</p>
<p>I guess my best EC is my membership in my school’s NHS, and we all know how much that is worth…</p>
<p>Flying for the win :)</p>
<p>1-Private Pilot student (fly single-engine airplanes as the pillot in command under visual conditions).</p>
<p>2-Manager of an aviation related website ([Redirecionando…](<a href=“http://www.tamvirtual.com%5DRedirecionando…%5B/url%5D”>http://www.tamvirtual.com)</a>).</p>
<p>3- Teached aerodynamics in an online offered course with more than 200,000 members worldwide.</p>
<p>Briefly, those are my top 3.</p>
<p>Holy **** I feel like I havnt done anything these past four years after reading this…</p>
<p>Damnit I have no EC’s but after I decided that I was interested in writing I joined the Newspaper and hope to be at least a section editor. Plus I’m thinking about contributing to some different publications, although I am really new to the idea of devotion and have been lazy since my middle schools years which were so easy that I didn’t need to do anything to succeed. </p>
<p>But some of these are really interesting, nice thread.</p>
<p>By the way I don’t know about that 1d thing. I see kids on here with Varsity Football, EIC of the Newspaper, and Varsity track Captain getting rejected with 2200 Sat’s and 4.0 GPA at Amherst. I know Amherst is top line, but those activities I just listed are equivalent to three hours a day for the sports alone at my school. Plus the studying for those grades and the time on Newspaper (at least for us the editors go in a lot to do stuff). </p>
<p>I just don’t see how a school, even as selective as Amherst, can reject such a well-rounded and fairly 1d applicant…</p>
<p>And if they typically do, then who does get accepted? Not many people work in science labs all their life investigating on genetics (and none that I know).</p>
<p>reattaching arms/legs/finger/toes on the casualties in Somalia</p>
<p>founded non profit for Haiti, where I have extended family
state ranked for lacrosse</p>