Your ECS arent focused...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>im a sophomore and these are the ECS that i have as of now. Ive been reading posts from other people that have similar ECS as me and ive seen a lot of comments like "you should focus your ECS more". this is my problem: if i "focus" my ECs, then i'd probably have so few! besides, even though i do a lot of my ECS because i enjoy it, the truth is, i do most of them for college, and if somebody tells me to focus them, i dont think i would be able to... and if i do "focus" im not going to have nearly as many ECS to choose from...</p>

<p>anyways</p>

<p>Its Academic(quiz bowl type of thing)
-'A' team (the representative team at competitions)</p>

<p>Science olympiad(goes to regionals pretty much every yr)
-im just a member now but im shooting to be captain next yr or senior yr</p>

<p>Red Cross club (secretary)
-also active with American Red Cross outside of school</p>

<p>UNICEF/Amnesty
-public relations</p>

<p>Math club</p>

<p>peer-to-peer mentoring
-mentor</p>

<p>tutoring at another high school for slightly retarded students
-counts for volunteer hours</p>

<p>regular volunteer at local hospital</p>

<p>very active with church youth
-volunteer hours</p>

<p>National honor society-public relations</p>

<p>french national honor society-(voted vice president for next yr)</p>

<p>science honor soiety</p>

<p>math honor society-treasurer</p>

<p>Track(2 yrs as of now, intend to run for 4 yrs)</p>

<p>Marching band( all 4 yrs - voted field captain for next yr, hoping for drum major senior yr)</p>

<p>Model UN</p>

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<p>any comments, suggestions, ideas on how to improve my ECS?</p>

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<p>find what you are the best at and do many things in that category/field.</p>

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<p>seriously... go for quality over quantity. If you do something amazing and put your heart and soul into only a few ECs, it will look much better than having a laundry list. So figure out what you like to do and give it everything you've got.... it will make you stand out, PLUS you'll love what you're doing.</p>

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<p>You've done a lot of ECS. I remember a President of my club and our adviser told us that they can tell if a student is doing it for college. It's when they take a bunch of clubs and only do minor accomplishments. If you want colleges to impressed by you, take only the ones you think you can succeed in and enjoy. If you have so many ECs it'll be hard to handle later.</p>