Recently I have been extremely dedicated in staying healthy/fit while baking and indulging at the same time! I am really passionate about this kind of stuff, and would list recipes that I made myself and give advice/tips to people who are on a diet because I know all about it and would like to share my knowledge as well as become an inspiration/role model for all the dieters out there! (I lost 7 pounds in 1 month) I am a junior in high school so I feel like I have a lot of time to be able to actually make my blog/website pretty successful.
If I combined this website with my other extra curriculars (read my 1st thread), would it make me seem like an interesting person and stand out from other applicants? or is the dieting blog totally irrelevant?
I really feel you have to do things because you like them and they are meaningful to you without regard to if it ‘looks good’ to colleges. Because once you start something it can take you places, you never know. It sounds like you feel you have something that interests you and you are passionate about and can make a difference. But just asking about how good a currently nonexistent activity looks, well don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
I know some people (or their parents) are really mercenary about just doing EC for college. I don’t know if that is where you are coming from, sorry if it sounds like that. Maybe many kids think a blog is something to do for college to be different. I have seen a video from a former Stanford admission officer in private practice who thought a food blog stood out for one student. But jumping on the bandwagon is not where you want to be.
@brownparent thanks for the input. I actually am finding some reasons to make a website/blog so i can convince my dad to pay for one. even if the blog doesn’t turn out to be very popular, at least both of us may have reassurance if colleges find it interesting ya know?
Unless it gains real readership, I don’t think starting your own blog will mean anything. The barrier to entry for having a blog is super low that simply having one that no one reads or follows can be done by literally anyone. It’s akin to asking if keeping a diary looks good for colleges as an aspiring writer.
If I really wanted to try and make this idea into a good EC, I’d see if you can get yourself on an already existing blog rather than starting your own. If someone who runs a visible blog deems your writing worthy of their blog that would be a different story.
IMO, you’re just wasting your time if you’re doing it to “look good” on your resume. The only time it would help is if you’re famous and you blog about topics related to your intended major. Otherwise, it’s seen as a hobby–no different from writing in a diary. A blog doesn’t show leadership and if you continue to post despite having no viewers, then adcoms may question whether you started a blog to help others or are just doing it in hopes of seeming “unique”. (Two older friends who went to my high school were rejected from Boston Uni. even though they had like 200+ views per week, 2000+ sats)
like everything, it will be meaningful if you put time and dedication and cultivate it to excellence. That is, you establish a very well done blog that gains a large readership . Cosier starting off with a free blog using something similar to WordPress
Yup, wordpress is free and you can do this for the fun of it - but it’s not any more impressive than any other EC. There are a lot of food blogs out there already so getting readers is going to be tough. Do you have a plan for building readership? An angle that differentiates your food blog from the 10s of thousands already out there?
