<p>Hey. I'm currently an 11th grader living in Northern Virginia. This is going to be a really long post, but I'd like some advice on what to do. :(</p>
<p>Let me say first off that I'm interested in computer science, which will probably be my major in college, and the college I'm interested in going to is Virginia Tech, which is supposed to have a good computer science program.</p>
<p>So, basically, next year I'm going to have to apply for colleges, and I'm just worried about one thing: not having enough extra curricular activities. The reason why I'm worried is that I did not do ANY ECs until this year, and this year I only signed up for one. Let me explain.</p>
<p>This year, I joined the Robotics team, where was admitted onto the build team (i.e. the people who actually work on the robot as opposed to random people who kind of sit there and watch other people do stuff) as a programmer, and participated in a regional competition for 3 days when the robot was completed. This was a very time consuming EC. I was required to stay after school every other day (some weeks I stayed after every day) for ~3 hours, and was required to come Saturdays (and some Sundays) every week from 10 AM to about 4 or 5 PM to work on the robot while it was being prepared for the competition. In the end, I would say I had around 60-70 hours of total work. On top of that, the competition was located at VCU in richmond, and took 3 days. Needless to say, this whole year up until now, when the club kind of let off, I was swamped. I had little time to tutor other people in "honor societies" or do other clubs/activities like my other friends were doing.</p>
<p>However, after school/robotics, I did do something else that will hopefully make colleges realize that I'm not slacking off in terms of ECs/out of school things: I created my own business, a web hosting company, where I essentially taught myself how to run a business and how selling web hosting works. I also designed the website for my company and used some prior knowledge as a coder to enhance the website. I ended up getting 10-15 clients, and most of them are still with the company and are still earning me profits each month.</p>
<p>Expected grades in school at the end of the year (once again, I'm a Junior):
Pre Calculus: A
Honors Physics: A
Spanish 4: A
AP English: B+/A
AP US History: B
Design/Tech (it's a shop class): A
Web development: A</p>
<p>Taking the following classes senior year:
AP Calculus AB
AP Computer Science A/AB (depending on what my school offers next year, hoping to get an A in this class which should overshadow my B+ in regular computer science where I didn't study for any tests, lol)
AP English: Lit
Spanish 5
Government 12 (regular)
Astronomy
Finance</p>
<p><em>whew</em>
So, anyway, my point - will the fact that I created a business and at the same time did a very time consuming EC be enough for colleges? Will colleges understand that I had little time to do other ECs with a job after school (web hosting business) + homework? Hopefully the fact that I took classes and did ECs/jobs related to my future major might help? I'm thinking I should do 2+ ECs next year, is this a good idea or is it already too late? Lol.</p>
