What should I do

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Basically I have no extracurriculars and no community service. For the 1st 2 years of high school I was wallowing around and felt no urgency to get involved in anything. This and last summer I did volunteer work at a doctor's office but those don't translate into hours at my school and I'm not even sure if it's something worth putting on my app, if I can even put it. </p>

<p>I'm in my Junior year and have no EC's or any of those out of school activities you can list. Is it too late? What do I do? I know that all of these EC's and service are only valuable on an app if they're standout or significant, so I'm not going to stack up worthless EC's in the last 2 years of high school. I won't get into NHS because I don't have enough hours and my app will not definitely not suffice for any of the top 20 universities I'm trying to get into, without any extra's and community service. My SAT, GPA, courseload, and essay are being taken care of, but this is a gaping hole in my high school career and it's really lingering over me. I see these apps with at least 15 extracurriculars and non-school activities and I'm taken aback. How can I even compete?</p>

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<p>uh you can and you should</p>

<p>i don’t think it’s too late to get involved. i mean, don’t start 15 new ECs, but find, maybe, two ECs to which you can devote a lot of time. and then try to fit community service in there.</p>

<p>what are you interested in?</p>

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<p>“but find, maybe, two ECs to which you can devote a lot of time. and then try to fit community service in there.”</p>

<p>That asks another tough question: what EC’s can I do that are significant, “serviceable” for the community, and standout/valuable?</p>

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<p>that’s why i asked what your interests are…</p>

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<p>What is anyone interested in? Play, sleep, sports, music… none of those pertain to anything significant I can do for extracurriculars though. I can write too but that’s less of an interest and more of a stroke of ego.</p>

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<p>Start a daycare?</p>

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<p>Make something like a pillow that helps people sleep better at night?</p>

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<p>Join ur school’s team or play rec?</p>

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<p>Write a song, learn an instrument?</p>

<p>There are plenty of significant things you can do relating to those interests.</p>