i want to know, quite honestly, how many students on CC joined their EC’s or got officer positions in their EC’s simply just because they would look good on college apps? feel free to admit it and perhaps list the EC’s that youre involved in.
<p>When I do something, I do it because it feels good. I hate people that do it just to get in to college. Actually, let them not have fun with life. </p>
<p>My ECs
Tennis
Surfing
Research</p>
<p>surfing, yay!!! anyway..i definitely agree with your ec philosophy. isn't school stressful enough already? why make it any worse with unenjoyable ec's? i see no point. i hate it when kids come on here asking "what ec's should i get involved with to go to harvard?". it's just a recipe for an unfufilling high school experience.</p>
<p>Actually getting involved in something you don't want to at first may be a great way to discover new avenues of interest. If you never join or do anything unless you like it, you'll never discover new things to like.</p>
<p>I think the most important thing is to have an EC that you will have for the rest of your life...for me I will always surf and play tennis. If you end up making a bad decision in life that results in depression, that one EC will always keep you motivated. Colleges really do see which students have an actual passion for an EC. For example, all my friends with perfect sats (and one guy has the only 36 ACT in california) got rejected from schools because colleges didn't see anything there. I mean, it is pathetic that if school is taken away from some students, there whole life is gone because it revolved around getting the good grades/stats. I am hopefully going to attend Dartmouth/Harvard/Stanford/Amherst/UCB/UCLA, but if I didn't get in to any of them, I'd still be happy. Life is too short to waste all on school. It is the simple pleasures such as gliding across a wave on a surfboard that make life special.</p>
<p>I love my EC's: gymnastics, cheerleading, class officer, church youth group, band, and a few minor ones. I would never join something just for college admissions purposes. Heck, I wouldn't have time to join something for that reason!</p>
<p>Well, I guarantee everyone that won an academic award in a competition like DECA, FBLA, or science olympiad, won it not only for the sake of learning but because they wanted to be recognized for their effort.</p>
<p>Look at my profile site and you'll see a bunch of academic things which I don't really have any personal connection to but I do them because my school, friends and my teachers wanted me to be a part of these things. You'll also see things that I genuinely enjoy/enjoyed like running a politics forum and weightlifting. I can explain why I enjoy them too, whereas for other things, I can't really explain why I have a personal connection with them.</p>
<p>everything i did in high school was because i really loved it and wanted to be involved in the organization - i did tons of work with the county through a youth service org, with the planning department writing part of the long range comprehensive plan, with the county's chapter of America's Promise, plus school stuff, church stuff on the district level, etc. etc. I was sooo busy but couldn't bring myself to quit anything! :)</p>
<p>i agree with most people above...the last thing i thought of before joining a club/org was think about how it look on my college app. and i think that no one should join a club (like NHS) simply to make your resume better. I also think that anyone iwth a laundry list of various clubs is worse than a person who doesnt have any ec at all</p>
<p>I got involved with a lot of social clubs because I was interested... the Environmental Club, Amnesty International, Gay Straight Alliance, Anaimal Alliance...</p>
<p>However... in terms of doing things just for college applications... then comes in newspaper. I was News Editor then accepted a position as Editor In Chief. Personally, I'm much more of a creative writing person than a journalistic person... And I would have preferred to be Op-Ed editor. Oh well, EIC is actually quite fun :D</p>
<p>I did everything that I did for the fun of it. Except for the math honor society that was for apps. I ADMIT IT :(</p>
<p>Wow Editor in Cheif is the least fun thing ever...I'm op-ed editor and politics/photography, so my jobs fun, but our editor in chiefs have the worst jobs ever</p>
<p>A person with a laundry list of EC's is WAY better off then someone with no EC's...
I don't see how it could be any other way.</p>
<p>Lol... the thoughtprocess, its people like you who ruin "ECs" for the rest of us. We call you resume whores, or in our school, "nuggets."</p>
<p>lol, see thats really mean...you completely misunderstood what I said. </p>
<p>Someone who's had achievements in MANY things is better off then someone with no achievements at all. I hate people who've accomplished nothing but still write down those things on their ECs. Do you now understand what I mean?</p>
<p>brenner, did you even read what I wrote?</p>
<p>someone that loves something and does it everyday is better than someone that has tons of achievements (i dont care how many)...</p>
<p>every club i joined was for college apps. ithe only thing i was passionate about was for tennis, and i ditn make the team because my school is number 1 in state, and i am not good enuf for it. but i would have joined the team even if i couldnt have put it in my applicatiion. i did track, and i sucked, but that was for college apps. u think i am a despicable person, try living my life at my school</p>
<p>During High School I was an editor on the school paper, however never made editor in chief. One of the big things I did that year (somewhat as a side project) was change a lot of how the paper was put together, and big changes on how we used technology. By the time I was done, all our pictures were done on digital cameras and the paper was done completly by computer. Since I was the person who did most of those changes, and spent a lot of time preparing people on how to use them once I graduated, I actually ended up doing a lot of the work that normally would have been done by the editor and chief. For example, normally the main editors (I had a half page section that I was personally in charge of, but it required little paste up on my part) would be the people did paste up of the paper. However since I was the only one who knew how to do it on that computer program I ended up having to do a lot of that work. </p>
<p>So for those of you who say editor and chief is a bad job, it's much better at least having the title, then doing the work without the recognition.</p>
<p>Allena, thats true and its unfair, hopefully you got the credit you deserved eventually. In my school, the people elected and selected to officer positions aren't always the one who are most capable or caring about the activity. Still, being a Editor in Chief at my school is rough...you have a point, a lot of people deserve credit besides them, especially you, who does so much stuff</p>
<p>but at my school, the Editor in Chiefs also copy edit and put layout together, but I can definetely see what you mean...when I was a sophomore our Editor in Chief barely showed up and our copy editor did all the hard/real work...that copy editor became the editor in chief this year</p>
<p>JC Oliver, what I said was:
Someone with many, varied minor accomplishments is better than someone with NO accomplishments. I'm not sure if you were disagreeing with me or what.</p>
<p>Well, I have football, which eats up a TON of time, combined with two national medals (schoolage) in olympic style weightlifting (not as time consuming, cause afterall you can only lift so much in a period), and i actually got to help pick the US olympic team for Weightlifting because i was a delegate to the governing body of USA weightlifting. Math league and class pres after that. Class pres might be the only app one on there, but i only did it for a year. Football at my school just doesn't allow someone to be president.</p>
<p>Anyways, I think that colleges aren't stupid. They can recognize when someone is just throwing stuff on a resume. I also think they can recognize when people are just throwing on hours too. Some of my friends marked down more hours than there were in a year on their app. For example, for Weightlifting I only put down 4 hours a week (albeit 35 weeks a year). That's accurate, 2 sessions a week, 2 hours per one. Oh well, im just starting to rant...</p>