Activities That DO Impress Colleges!!! OWN the College Admissions Process
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- Опубликовано: 15 фев 2018
- Are you wondering what activities you SHOULD put on your college application? In this video, Brooke shares some tips on what colleges are looking for and what types of activities will make your college application shine!
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2 types of people in these comments:
1: I'm 8 years old and I won 529 national writing contests, am the leader of 6496396396258296369470 clubs in my school, started an NGO to eliminate ebola, did research on the metastasis of breast cancer, scored the world record for the fastest mile ever run by a woman, played the violin at Carnegie hall in front of Barrack Obama, went on a mission trip to Africa and single-handedly built 25 schools, got a 5 on every single AP test, and have a 11.0 GPA. Will any of this help me get into college?? I am freaking out, please help!!!
2: I am on Level 80 in Candy Crush, will that get me into Harvard?
U sure have a good 20% chance if u travel to Pluto on a boat :)
I love everything about this comment.
I’m on level 782 hahah
I’m freakin crying rn LMAOOO
my grandma is on level 8000.
If everyone's a leader then who leads who????
Jonathan Aguayo Exactly. Every good leader needs to be a good follower too.
Exactly,like every college wants you to be a leader of a club or something...as if everybody has the spirit of Stalin
Honestly the one's who is admitted to the big names are the leaders, and others are not, there maybe exceptions but to me what I learn in college is whatever, college to me is the diploma and the name that is helping me to reach a higher level of people/ network, the name that is helping me reaching the management jobs and etc.
I am a school's president and a class rep, is it a good enough activity not to be worrying about others if you are going into Harvard and an international student?
Her definition of leadership is someone showing initiative to solve problems or whatever
I’m really good at not knowing what I’m good at
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same
I'm really good at playing the recorder with my nose
That's talent as far as we're concerned.
Jazlyn Roy buddy.... 😔
Jazlyn Roy YASSSS
gOeS tO hArVaRd
Humanity at its peak
this applies to like 3% of kids. like wtf am i supposed to tell colleges? that i like to eat and sleep?
guess you should have thought about these things before you ate. Or slept.
The 3 percent of kids that deserve it for working hard.
Jack Productions Holding Account To be fair they succeed in this area because it is what they find interesting rather than “working hard” to get. Like for example, most kids like videogames and are fantastic at it, but their area of interest is not what colleges want.
@@roughsharkangular2034 That's a great point. But if you have ambition, then you will be driven to choose activities that support you alongside those that entertain you.
Jack Productions Holding Account I agree, but ultimately to get in the top 50 unis your curriculum wont matter that much. Theres a lot of people with perfect everything. Its like winning a freaking lottery.
i'm excellent at failing, does that work? pls
LOL
This can be a good thing depending on your mindset.
brilliant
The “pls” got me cracking up😂
No, good luck, see you in a box lmao
I’m a better rapper than lil pump. Is it enough to get me into Harvard?
esketit
SupertutorTV LOL
if u can sing like taemin then u are SET
SupertutorTV this reply just made me subscribe
How have you proven that you're a better rapper? What achievements and societal diiferences have you made?
Here are some ideas 💡:
-Internship (paid/not paid)
-Sports
-Charities
-Food Drives/Can food drives
-Visiting homeless centers to help
-Dog Protection/Animal Protection
-Charities
-Starting a club that helps people like suicide prevention clubs
-Summer jobs or having a job in general
-*Wow Factor* like being President it Valedictorian or winning awards or writing a bomb poem/novel or learning a language or traveling abroad to help others
i did a lot of charity work such as community services, is that a wow......
Mr.westbrook Mr Westbrook Tbh no, a lot A LOT of ppl do community service it’s not impressive
the more people that know the harder for us to get a god dam scholarship.
I'm the first female wrestler in over half a decade, freshman rep, and I'm a weeb
@@eo4295 My friend did 1000 hours at one specific Org (tutoring) is that good?
One thing I can say: everything she mentioned requires tons and tons of money for the rest of us living outside the US
xD
Yeah xd
Shidddd this requires tons of money for us living in the US
4,5 R$ = 1$
Welcome to Brazil...
@@otaviofraga6183 exatamente, e ainda é um porre tentar ajuda financeira
Got some victory royales. How would Harvard feel?
LTS_FriGhT Clan Harvard would be wet for you!!!!
COSMOS. Fr tho I can’t wait
Austin C blessed
This is why being a student for me is hard.
1. I have tried so many sports and activities when I was a kid, but was never really passionate about any of them. I'm going to be a junior in high school and I still haven't settled on a sport that I enjoy.
2. I have no time! How do colleges expect me to have time to sleep when I have to work, have 3 AP classes, and if I was doing anything extracurricular???
3. In terms of leadership, since I'm a pretty introverted and person who doesn't like to stand out much and has anxiety in social situations, it is the scariest thing to be a leader. I feel like I'm not good enough!
4. I'm good at art, but the thing is my school only offers a regular art class and an AP Art class, which I've both taken already! I have no art classes left and I don't have a chance to chase my talent. I was considering a summer camp but corona virus, also their expensive, and most things one are also pretty expensive. In my town there really isn't any art related extracurriculars so I'm kinda stuck. :/
5. My school dangles college over our heads like it's a humongous beast or something - they act as if it's the end of the world. Sure, it's hard, but you don't have to scare me!!! They expect us to know a passion by 17 (which is how old when I'll graduate) and I still don't know.
6. School and colleges expect everyone to be social butterflies and be great communicators, business people, and yada yada. Sure, this is great but it's really hard when being an introvert. I can't even walk up to a teacher and say hi to them so how am I expected to lead???
7. Grades. Time consuming, stressful, and difficult to manage, even without any extra curriculars.
Any of you agree?
Dw gurl i relate to every single thing u said and im pretty sure most of us do
Frances Edwards 🙌
The secret is to not sleep...
Maybe do an art competition? or make art that people could buy, and use the funds for a campaign? Just think a little deeper, you can do it!
oooh u should start an art club!
The activities part has to be the thing that most terrifies me...
omar 23 lmao same
Same bro
Same 😭
I made a Google Doc of all the things I did in the past two years of high school. I don't have any specific activities that will "wow" anyone. But it did make me a lot more positive.
Chances are that each of you have a legitimately good activity worth sharing with admission officers.
For example, every year I walk 20 miles with an organization working to end hunger in my area and raise money while doing so. That's not super impressive in my opinion, but it's worth something.
@@crypticii3431 thank you
1. Leadership 2. Excellence 3. Commitment 4. Wow factor conclusion: not getting into college
She says at the beginning this is for top colleges with a low acceptance rate. If you're applying to schools with a highrr acceptance rate you'll be fine
@@QuixoticPenguin lol yes these activities are just for top 1% of US colleges! chill
This is the best advice I've seen on the internet when it comes to activities. Colleges constantly say that they are trying to put together a diverse class, and it is so much easier to contribute to this by doing activities no one else does instead of trying to be the best in the world at something. I strongly believe that the weirder and more unusual your activities are, the better chance you have to stand out as an interesting applicant and ultimately get in. That was the logic I used on my Stanford application and I think it's a big part of why I got in. :)
Matthew Late so can you tell us what did you include
Sorry I didn't reply sooner, I didn't get a notification for some reason.
I talked about the Linguistics Club I founded at my HS (once a week we looked at brain teaser-y linguistics problems (search NACLO) and later started to invent a language), playing board games with friends and founding my HS' Board Game Club, co-founding a club at my HS to teach classmates the basics of various CS languages, composing music, teaching myself Esperanto (a man-made language designed to be the easiest in the world to learn), competing nationally in Irish fiddle, and playing DDR as a "sport."
I listed but didn't write anything about math team, science olympiad, NHS, classical violin and piano because they weren't different from what everyone else was doing. I also felt like I personally identified much more with (and as a result, enjoyed more) the activities I mentioned in the first paragraph, probably BECAUSE they were much more unique. If I could go back and re-experience high school, I would probably have spent more time on these "weird" activities instead of the others (with the possible exception of math team, but that's because it was more of a social outlet than anything else).
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@@malfruemulo damn nice
Welp guess I won't be going to college.
Did you watch to the end? Again I'm not saying this is the only way you can get into college. It's focused on standing out for top schools. For schools with admit rates above 20% or so your grades and scores will weigh far more heavily on your admission.
Elkalite/Shania: Having impressive activities is really only necessary for admission to top 20 or top 50 schools. There are tons of good schools outside the top 50 that can be a great experience for you, and they have many graduates who go on to lead a very successful life. Getting into a top school is not the only route to success (and is far from a guarantee of success at that). Honestly, the students that get into those schools are so smart and competitive that if you did not get really high grades and test scores in high schools, and do not have super impressive leadership and activities, you probably won't have a good experience at a top school.
It's a joke.
Elkalite join the military
@@brookifyd so the top 20 schools only admit students that have done open heart surgery with toothpicks, or solved global warming by building a stable fusion reactor? Really? There are no kids that were just damn good students, who participated in a variety of extracurriculars with passion?
It makes me sad that colleges are expecting teenagers to know exactly who they are and what they’re passionate about and be the best at it. Teens should be spending time finding their identities. Also a lot of teens go through personal things that can affect their mental health, Or have commitments for their families. Do those students not get to go to these colleges because they don’t have the time to spend on activities ?
Colleges aren’t like that at all. Unless you pretend top 20 schools are the only ones that exist.
i can do a "disappointing factor"....LMFAOO
same lmao like I don't have anything I literally wanna quit this college admission process
Can I just say that it’s sad that kids have to jump through hoops in order to get into college...I guess being a teenager with good grades is not good enough. SMH
For sure. I'm in the ib program and work super hard in school. Last year I got 4 hours of sleep per night on average and spent all of my breaks studying in order to maintain a 4.0 GPA but it hurts knowing that that's not good enough nowadays, that if you want to get into a great college you have to be the leader of like 6846899644 clubs and create your own organization that will completely eradicate poverty in Africa
“Jumping through hoops” isnt the point of extracurriculars. Its about doing something you love or enjoy. But you don’t passively enjoy it. You work hard and have fun and do something with your hobby or the thing u like doing and it usually pays off. Colleges see this. Honestly, the weirder the thing is and the better you are at it the more colleges will be interested in you.
Sparkle08 same I thought that being in the IB program itself WAS the wow factor but looks like I wasted all those sleepless nights and mental breakdown were for nothing because I needed to include the research on the cure for cancer and represent the country in the olympics on top of ee, tok and ias!!
I don't see how showing passion and leadership is "jumping through hoops." There is a reason that these elite colleges are so selective: they are elite.
Just go to an easier college to get into. Not everybody should get into top colleges, which these vids are for
I'm doing none of this. I'm gonna find my own way.
My man
Lol gl
And that’s wow right?
Chidalu Maduewesi Good for you.
A Wolf that loves to howl what did you find?
-GPA: 4.0
-Rank: 3 out of 579 students
-Graduated 2014 and then enlisted
-Worked my butt off to write an essay about my military career and how i would fit well into the program.
*Still got declined admission at a state university*
As per the school, I was rejected because I graduated 4 years ago and dont have recent academic records.
What in the world!?
Cap
What was your coursework? There’s a chance it might have been a lack of advanced coursework - colleges care more about the latter than simply GPA. It’s the GPA in context that matters here.
uhh yeah i guess college just isn’t happening haha wow worked my ass off and i’m still not enough woo hoo !!
😭😭😭😭 same
Hey it’s been 3 years. Have you gone to college or are you still in high school?
If you’re in college, how did your admission process go?
I'm masters in overwatch does that count as excellence
Wilner's wonderful world excellence is its own reward
Top schools will ask: why aren't you in grandmaster?
if you're in the top 500 you automatically get accepted into Harvard
Mercy mains get brownie points because they seen true war
Supreme in Csgo, does that show my leadership??
U r 100% right on the definition of leadership
Lol I don’t think being the best blunt roller at the school is gonna wow Yale
Latrampodonk YT maybe university of colorado
wooOOw
woah
wow
Im the best at procrastinating and watching RUclips videos instead of studying will that help me get into harvard
When she talked about being good at violinist, I froze because I think I found my ticket
That's great
Me too!
definitely!
Let’s hope your not Asian or else it’s gonna be the exact opposite
@@jessicac8090 What will happen if they are Asian? Just curious
Your channel is so helpful!! I'm a junior in high school and have been using your videos to help guide me for years. Love what you do!
My school is dumb and pushes people to take 4 AP classes every year, participate in volunteer work, sports, and multiple clubs because they claim that that's what colleges look for. Then everybody does that because they don't know any better and they end up burning themselves out before they can even go to college. It's nice to know that all of that was complete BS and that all of us wasted our high school careers due to their negligence and laziness. (Even though they still yelled at us for being lazy even if we did the work.)
Vivvifier is this a prestige high school? I find most schools in my area don't force you to do anything but do gently encourage it... Most people don't participate in AP courses or extracurriculars though.
Alex S. It's a DoDea highschool. (Department of Defense highschool.) So it's run by the government unlike most high schools. That's the only difference.
Vivvifier interesting. I thought public schools are run by the government as well & charter or private schools are the main type of school that are funded independently & therefore have more leeway with their curriculum & rules. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ b
UMMMM UNIVERSITIES LOOK FOR AP.... HIGHER SCORES ON EVERYTHING ESPECIALLY WEIGHTED GPA
Be cool in Asia we have 5 compulsory subject and spend whole day at school
Wow factor has me stressed yall
i’m really good at stressing out about things, which i was reminded of while watching this video
this video made me thank myself once again for starting and developing a business to a successful business as a freshman honestly it wouldve been so hard to get into my dream college without it
normally, i can't stand watching videos related to college applications and all, but the videos from this channel are kind of addicting
Brooke, it would be awesome if you could make a video giving tips for college interview! I appreciate your work, and your videos have been helping me a lot during my application process. I'm having no guidance through the process, but the information you and other people give on RUclips helped me more than I would imagined, so thank you very much!
You're welcome! Thanks for the idea. We will take it into consideration for our next slate of videos.
Being successful in extracurriculars is important I get it but sometimes being pushed to hard to be successful at something just takes away your "interest" part out of it as most people do it as a refuge from the competition that they face and just want to enjoy themselves it just hurts that just doing something that you like and not going to any competition or trying to be at the top doesn't mean anything to the admissions committee.
The best thing about you is that you are are very genuine and honest:)
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! You guys gave me a little bit more direction, which is saying a lot. Its a bit of hope, and i am absolutely thankful for it
Thank u for speaking up for Asians.
in terms of wow factor, sometimes it's the combination of things that makes the wow. Example: a colleague of mine had a student who was good at crew (good, not amazeballs), but that wouldn't have been enough for a wow in the Ivy pond. However, he also break dances. And it turns out that the combo crew-break dancing is pretty wow. Another example is a student with whom I worked who both did speedcubing (solving Rubik's cubes fast) and played baseball (well, but not amazingly well).
This gave me a lot en enthusiasm like...I SEE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
This lady is so much on point in all her videos.
I had literally no time between full time work and full time cc to do extra curricular activities. But I have worked teaching developmentally disabled how to live in community group homes for nearly ten years. Got me into UT Austin in the Natural Sciences. Not a bad school if I may say so.
I’ve always been an arts kid - I’ve always been extremely involved in my school’s theatre, writing, and music programs and have excelled in these classes. While I am passionate about these things, I am equally passionate about science and math; thus, I am applying to colleges as a nursing major (with a theatre minor, possibly. My parents only support that because they believe it is equivalent to a major in interpersonal communication). I’ve never failed a science/math class, but they’ve never been my best classes either. I joined chem club at the beginning of freshman year, but I quit because it wasn’t a productive use of my time. I’m more interested in health/biological sciences, so I never joined the robotics club or any other science/math-oriented club at school. I’m planning on taking five years of math and science (extra credits w/summer courses in stats and possible human anatomy). I’m worried that my involvement in arts over science will confuse college admissions and make them think I’m not really interested in nursing/health sciences. What can I do to persuade them that I really care about pursuing a career in nursing, but also that my passion for nursing won’t make me let go of the fine arts anytime soon?
how are you doing now?
I'm a sophomore working to obtain an Associates Degree through a selective program while in high school. I also am working for EMT certification by the conclusion of Junior Year. This Is all the "Wow" I got.
Thank you thank yo thank you!!!! Its that time that i need to start planning all these things
being an international student sucks, my school doesnt offer any extracurricular activities and i dont know what to do to improve my curriculum
Josh did a video on how he got into Stanford this week-- his activities he discusses in depth are a great example of WOW activities and both were totally self directed (i.e. no school parameters required). Just because your school doesn't have activities doesn't mean you can't pursue your interests in a meaningful way.
You can do ECs outside school and self taught tons of stuff. It's your responsibility.
Try something yourself. Use youtube too.
Sameeeeeeeeee😭😭
You could start your own club at school and that would be a wow factor especially since there already aren’t any at yr school
For the longest time I have enjoyed drawing floor plans of like houses and buildings for like no absolute reason, but at the same time I don’t want to necessarily go into architecture for college😂
Great video, this gave me confidence in my ECs lol. I dont have a lot but theres like 2 that I spend a lot of time on
Thank you so much for this video , I would try my best to put your advice to good use , thank you again!
sorry, i have depression and can't find anything interesting anymore.
chloe lambert then get some medical help
Facts
me too
Mood
MidnightCyanide ok know that’s a little harsh,I think every one knows you need to take theory when you have depression
Your videos are very helpful so could you please make one for students from abroad who are looking to apply to American colleges
Thank you so much! I think I know what my wow factor is!
Go class of 2019! These vids are great to prepare :) I will be visiting UPenn on monday - can’t wait!
Cheerful Charms go class of 2019!!! My dream school is nyu
Woo dream is Yale. Would also accept USC 😂 (Film or Theatre Major)
@@trevjenn don't take theator man. You won't get paid a lot.
Wild Chang if it’s his passion money doesn’t matter
This video is very helpful! I am currently playing violin in a mariachi group! I've been playing since I was 10. :D
¡Olé!
love it!
I can do a really amazing whale mating call on the clarinet? Can I get into Harvard???
Mood
Bruhhh 😭
There's a 5% chance
ACCECTED ✅ that’s true talent boi
When your reply got 2 likes and every else’s reply didn’t get any likes 😎
Thank you, I found this video very helpful
As a junior in high school, I was the Asb class president and I was deemed as the captain of my baseball team. All these titles aside, I want to make a few things clear. My school’s team finished 5-20, and I had a batting average of 0.260 (which is mediocre in high school). While I was named captain by my coach, the players on my team didn’t seem to have much respect for me, rarely taking me seriously. While I was able to get things done in my Asb junior class, I had difficulties managing differing opinions in my classes. I don’t think I was nearly assertive enough, and often times, I myself fell confused in my position.
This doesn’t sound like I am much of a leader. There must be some sort of legitimacy in my roles, and an underlying leadership quality that I possess that allowed me to assume these roles during high school, but I don’t see it in myself that these titles bear much importance.
Why? Well, I don’t see much self improvement from being in my associated student body (still awkward in social situations, still lack assertiveness) and I don’t see improvement on my baseball skills, being an average at best player. I also don’t know where I will apply these things in the real world.
I don’t mean to pout: I only want to point out that I may have placed my investments in the wrong place and that you should be very careful before attempting activities that will simply boost your college acceptance rates.
That was not my intention. Rather, I believed that by doing these things I was making a positive change. But I only found interests in the last couple years, in which showing mastery is very difficult.
The solution: know why you are putting such a great investment of time in to an activity before you continue
Hi Brooke, it would be amazing if you can make a video giving tips for students who transfer to American high schools mid-way from foreign countries (like during their sophomore or junior year) because this is really a struggle for students like me who never get the chance to start preparing for college in 9th grades or even earlier in terms of academics, extra curriculars, test prep, etc.
Hey! Hows it going for you now? I'm in the same position now haha
College interview video please!
Awesome video . Very informative 👍
Linguistics is how I showed uniqueness and passion.
I am currently a junior in high school and need some extracurricular advice(I want to attend an Ivy League school). Here is what I have so far, but I’m not sure how good I stand out.
I break up my extracurriculars into 3 main categories: choir, environmental activism, and programming/machine learning.
Choir: I have been doing choir since 6th grade and in high school my achievements grew every year.
9th grade: I made it to round 3 out of 4 in the Texas All State Choir Audition process and performed in the annual region choir. I also got a 1(highest rating possible) in my local solo contest.
10th grade: All of the above and in addition, I achieved the Outstanding Performer Award in the Texas State solo contest. This award is given to the top 3% of competitors.
11th grade: I am currently on the 4th and final round of the All State Choir process(an improvement from the last 2 years). Evaluating the best possible outcome, let’s say I make it. I’m thinking of competing in the Hal Leonard vocal solo competition(national) this second semester.
Environmental activism:
In freshman and sophomore years, I have done small things like volunteering for my local Biodiversity center and partaking in programs for teens there. My passion was there, but I just didn’t know what I wanted to do with it.
junior year: I won first place in an annual international environment essay contest sponsored by the UN and Samsung. Over 240 people entered from 46 countries. The topic was combating air pollution.
This last month, I entered another international writing contest sponsored by the Trust for Sustainable Living, where I shared my platform on how smarter tech choices in first world countries can satisfy the UN global goals(climate action). Results will come in Feb.
Around the same time I entered the UN contest, I discovered the sustainable search browser Ecosia which plants trees with its ad revenue. I researched and found out that there was a movement in Europe led by college students to make Ecosia the default browser in their campuses. I contacted the leader of the movement(in Great Britain) and received a unique link to start a campaign where I live(catered to primary and secondary schools and communities) and hopefully expand nationally. This is my nonprofit, Trees for Tomorrow. It’s very small right now, but hopefully I can grow it within this year!
Programming/machine learning: I really want to pursue a degree in machine learning because I love working with data and want to tackle environmental issues head on.
I’ve taken comp sci related classes every single year of HS. In freshman year, one of my comp sci projects made it to the regional science fair.
In addition, this past summer I’ve taken a class on Python online from Georgia Tech, and currently doing one on Machine Learning from the University of Michigan. Afterwards, I intend to compete in the online website Kaggle(specializes in Data science) and even get an internship at Match.com(my dad’s company) for data science this coming summer.
What do you think of this? I’m worried that I don't have a solid spike(environmentalism really took hold this year), and I’m worried about choir because many have said that it’s not a good EC. I also don’t have that many awards- if I have 2 state awards and maybe 2 international in the near future, would that would be good for Ivy League? What else do you think I can do to enhance my profile?
I finished 3 AP courses, and I’m taking 6 right now(because my school only offers either AP or on level classes). I have mostly high A grades on my transcript. My ACT score is 35, and I’m going to take subject tests math 2 and physics this summer.
Thank you,
Swetha Tandri
where do you go now?
wow! I bet you did get into a ivy league
@@1kydes this is Swetha, who made the original post! I go to UT Austin and I major in computer science! A lot of things changed since I made the OG post and now I run a company where I write songs explaining math :)
@@liliann8650 nope, but I had a B in physics
@@jess-xx3uw I actually didn’t! Got waitlisted at Rice though. I’m happy with where I go to now, and don’t even think about ivies anymore
I'm definitely into the more exotic stuff, like the language of Icelandic, the hammered dulcimer, and glassblowing
The video editing is immaculate😌
Conflict management is the #1 activity.
the 4 attributes:
leadership
excellence
commitment
wow-factor
Me having none
How developed should an entrepreneurial activity be? As a high school student I can't do much in terms of starting my own business but I do have a sort of baking and makeup business so would that count as something or would it just look stupid ?
I know it’s been 2 years but I am curious how did your businesses work out for college?
thank you so much!! That helped a lot
could you do a video on what activities would be good to exceed in (if your starting at a later age so grade 9 or 10)
Question,
I play a sport and I've been playing it for a long time, I play against college kids and kids who are on a college sports team and do okay for the age gap. Would this activity help me get into a college?
"or fencing!" Me: AYYEEEEEE LET'S GO DARTMOUTH LMAOOO
I love this! thank you
Very helpful video. Thanks 😄
I have just completed the Officer Cadet School and I am now a full commissioned officer in the Singapore Armed Forces...do I qualify as having leadership qualities.
Wow, the self study project on epidemiology based off of Twitter data in high school...
What do you think about fostering cats? The shelter I volunteer at lets minors foster with parental permission, and I’m finally able to get my parents permission in my senior year.
I am in 7th grade and going crazy over getting into MIT and i already have learned so much, like why am i putting so much effort 🤯
Honestly I'd say to try and chill a little on college stuff if you're still in middle school. Wait until summer of going into freshman year to start planning things out to help you get into your dream school. Not saying you're gonna end up the way I did, but I've been thinking about getting into a particular college since I was in 4th grade and many EC I did in middle school was mainly to help me with apps and not solely because I wanted to do them (don't get me wrong I was interested in the things I did but I did them more for college than for myself). I went into hs to find out nothing you do in middle school matters for college unless you started something (like theater for example) and continued it for most or all of high school. I got really stressed and burned out to the point I didn't enjoy much and sometimes forced myself to do things for college. I'm going into senior year now and I really wish I focused on my interests more than what a college wants to see in me. I guess my main point is do things because you want to and you find interest/joy in them and not because of MIT.
@@dancingsun2I literally just got serious on that stuff halfway through my freshman year. Still got a leadership position though, so it all gucci.
@@dancingsun2 Did you get into the school you wanted to go
I'm not sure whether this is considered an excellence activity, but I was really interested in art, so I applied to be the artist for a magazine club at school and got accepted. A couple months later, I applied to be the creative director by drawing some art for an article and got selected to be the director, so now I take care of a bunch of artistic elements. My question is is this whole thing an excellence activity or a leadership activity?
I think it can fit both categories. And it doesn't matter which one it should be considered as, since it is an achievement that will add some weightage to your college application
I know that mayonnaise is an instrument and I can play it..
Does it help for college admissions?
"No, Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument"
Thank you for this!
This depresses me, I’m not a high school student I’m a 27 year old who went back to school. Next year I’ll be applying to colleges as a community college transfer and after watching this I feel like I’m not going to appear as a contender.
This is generally applying to those really top schools, like Stanford and Harvard. I don’t know what you’re studying, but try to find a way to make it applicable towards the real world and work towards that goal. This could be you studying engineering, and then coaching a robotics team. This could be you studying nursing and then volunteering at the hospital and getting real world experience.
Don’t let these videos make you feel bad, you do what you need to do and success will find its way to you!
Do you have to be excellent only in activities related to your major or can it be other activities?
Do you think that excelence in choir would help as much as for instruments? I scored the top score for tenor voice at Jazz All State in my state and top in my room (essentially top in the state) for tenor voice for two years in a row at my state's regular All State. I also went to All Nationals last November. I just want to know if this will suffice for excelling in an extracurricular. Thanks, and have a good day!
Yes. That counts!
Reading the comment makes me feels that I'm not only the one to struggle to know in which field I'm good at😩
As an international student I think people who has gone to the IMO and won medals have extremely good commitment level. Winning medals in IMO a combination if born talent and years and years of problem solving skill development
thats a major wow factor also
The thing that’s hard for me is that I only have around 4-5 activities on the common app, but those activities were high commitment, and very demanding to the point where I couldn’t fill my schedule any more, I’ve been in those 4-5 activities for all four of my high school years… Do you think that time dedicated could be considered rather than quantity of activities someone puts down?
I feel like as long as the activities present your hard work, contributions, and time, you don’t need many. That should suffice depending what they are
Do your extracurriculars have to do with your major or can they be different. For example is it okay if you spend all four years of high school participating in art clubs but your major being nursing? Do colleges want to see a relationship between them or it doesn't matter because you can put undefined for your major so they won't know? Btw I like both art and nursing but I participated in art only and just decided I want my major to be nursing?
@@rose-nl5tg they can be different but you should do something healthcare related. Whether it’s a job, your program or hospital volunteer hours
Can activities you have done in middle school also help you get into university (considering they are good enough and are part of the things universities are looking for) ?
Hi Brooke, I really hope you reply to my comment. So I love going to the gym after school and working out. Not just to work out, but because I love it and I love taking care of myself. Do you think I can use that as an extracurricular activity?
I'm really great at quickscoping skrubs in call lf of duty. Is there even a minute chance i may get admitted in any US college?
What if I have a leadership position in a youth group.....does that count?
I'm only a freshman right now but I want to graduate high school and go to a good college to make my parents proud
Would becoming an Eagle Scout be considered an important WOW factor? Thank you so much for your informational video and continue with all of the college application help! 😀
James George Probably not since just in 2018, 52k ppl earned Eagle Scout.
No.
I've interviewed a few Eagle Scouts -- not rare enough.
It's a nice achievement, just not for top 15 or so.
Good for like the 25-100 range.
You'd be depressed at my list of wow factor.
@@chrislee367List them
Me an introvert: *cries*
I’ve always been average at everything so ya that sucks, but I’m very committed to cheer and I’m captain so 2/4....
I used to be rly good at sports. I would travel abroad for swimming competitions My basketball team came 6th in my in Ireland. I came second in chonnacht for hockey (my province), I played Gaelic and we won our county final. But I quite all my sports when I was 13 cuz of depression and now I just run at the weekends. I suppose if I have good grades I’ll be fine
It’s great when you’re held back from doing activities in general because you have no one to transport you.
MY EXACT PROBLEM.
I relate to this so much
Literally. “Go out and find your passion”. Yeah, I’m 16. My parents aren’t going to just devote their precious time to traveling around the universe with me to explore my “interests and passions” and pursue them. I’m stuck at home most of the time. I hate when people talk as if it’s so simply and easy
is remembering 6000 digits of pi a wow factor and commitment?
could you please do a video on how international African students can get into American universities, especially ivy league schools?
And also how to apply with test scores like WASSCE which is like the SAT for west Africa.
You apply with WASSCE. They know how to do the translations.
AFAIK, primarily those with "All A1's" are the ones who are accepted. I had some Nigerian tell me about 50 a year get all A1's (I knew one fellow like that who took his WASSCE's in 1990).
PEOPLE! What did UCSB/UCLA look in your admission? But then again i'm in Community College, and will be a transfer student, so I need all the help from every source as possible. :)