I'm a sophmore right now, attending a good catholic school. I'm in the honors program (basically, all my classes are honors classes and I'm forced to take at least one year of Latin, although I'm probably going to take four), currently on a quarter scholarship, and I average A, A-, and B+ in all of my classes. Since I work on a weighted GPA, I'm well above 4.0 (last time i checked it I was around 4.33).
As for community service, I was required 50 hours last year, and if I want to get into the NHS, I need to have 50 hours this year and next.
The only major problem i can forsee on my college resume is my extracurricular activites. Since I go to a catholic school, its small and not alot of extracurriculars appeal to me. I think I'll be in three clubs this year. Is that sufficent? How do colleges judge your extracurriculars? Clubs like drama or band certainly do more work then an anime club, do they get weighted in some way? do community service clubs look better than regular clubs?
2006-09-07 08:49:24 · 6 answers · asked by Donnie Dragon 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
allow me to say this as clearly as possible:
IT'S NOT THE NUMBER OF CLUBS YOU JOIN. IT'S YOUR COMMITTMENT AND PASSION THAT MATTERS.
anybody can sign their name and show up to meetings once in a while. what matters is what you did to enrich yourself. think about the things in which you're interested. find a club or organization that related to them. join it, and pursue it with PASSION. having just one or two things that you do really well is a whole lot better than having 10 things that you don't care about.
you're only a sophomore. you've got time. do what you love.
2006-09-07 18:31:39 · answer #1 · answered by donlockwood36 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure you've heard this before, but colleges don't really care if you were in 5 clubs, they are more concerned whether or not you played an active role in it (being an officer in it). You could be president of one club and have lots of volunteering hours and that would be sufficient.
Colleges have no way of knowing how much work or hours went into one club than another, unless you list the volunteering hours on your application. For example, how would they know that drama club requires more hours than anime club? It may be common sense that drama club requires more time, but there is no way to prove it. Yes, I do think community service clubs look better than regular clubs unless you took an active role in the regular ones.
2006-09-08 17:31:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all, National Honor Society is a scam. Second, it's not the amount of extracurriculars. It's your quality of participation (like being the captain of a team or the lead in a play) and the grades you are able to maintain while you participate. Academic clubs always look best, followed by community service, and then sports and other stuff.
2006-09-07 16:36:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have that much stuff on a application, you should have no problems geting in somewhere. Seriously With some good SAT's and that resume you should be fine. One Caviat...... If you are dreaming of one of the glory, schools with the 50, 000 applicants a year (the Harvard's, Princeton's ,MIT's) ? Try picking some others. Why? Because the other 50,000 have the same grades, stats, & SAT's as you do. You may not get Yale, but your alock for A Penn State, Notre Dame, etc.
2006-09-07 16:16:41 · answer #4 · answered by lana_sands 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most colleges do not spend that much time looking at Extracurricular activites. Unless your GPA is low, or you want a schollarship based on those activites then dont worry.
2006-09-07 16:06:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I had none and I got in to all te school i applied to
2006-09-07 20:23:16 · answer #6 · answered by Kay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋