My feedAdmissions Advice
1
@vr27
2 answers, 5 votes
 • 3 years ago •
Admissions Advice
[edited]

Extra curricular activity: Is it strong enough?
Answered

Over the corona virus pandemic, due to being stuck at home, I have been giving weekly English language lessons to my grandma and her underprivileged neighborhood kids in in India through zoom (since they have no other resources to learn the language for an affordable price to them). My grandma also struggles with hearing problems so a lot of my lessons are visual based and I try to find many strategies to work with her hearing problem but still try to provide her the understanding of the language, effectively. My question is: Is this something that can count as an extracurricular on my college application even though it may not be associated with any club or organization. I was also going to write my essay about it so I was wondering if that is a good idea as well? (especially for top schools!)

Admission
essay
application
extracirriculars
1
3
@crazyblob3 years ago

That's pretty honorable

Earn karma by helping others:

1 karma for each ⬆️ upvote on your answer, and 20 karma if your answer is marked accepted.

1 answer

0
Accepted Answer
@addiereadsbooks
9 answers, 19 votes
 • 3 years ago[edited]

This is a great extracurricular. It demonstrates leadership and how you are helping the community. It might not be strong enough to be like your main extracurricular, so it might be beneficial to have other activities.

0
@twohid3 years ago

In addition to this, if you want to make it a more significant extracurricular, try making a formal website and social media accounts for it. Make it a sort of organization and even find other people to do it with you, it can become an amazing passion project if you really put your mind to it. Good luck!

What are your chances of acceptance?

Calculate for all schools

Your chance of acceptance
Duke University
UCLA
+ add school
Your chancing factors
Unweighted GPA: 3.7
1.0
4.0
SAT: 720 math
200
800
| 800 verbal
200
800

Extracurriculars

Low accuracy (4 of 18 factors)
Add more factors ›

Community Guidelines

To keep this community safe and supportive:

  1. Be kind and respectful!
  2. Keep posts relevant to college admissions and high school.
  3. Don’t ask “chance-me” questions. Use CollegeVine’s chancing instead!

How karma works