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@Prancer
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 • 3 years ago •
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How To Show Incentive in My Extracurriculars
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I’m trying to build a competitive profile for college so by senior year I will have done 11 APs and so far the lowest grade I’ve gotten is a B+ in first semester freshman french 2 honors which immediately went up to an A- next semester. Other than that, I have gotten mostly A+s and some A’s. What can I add to this?

What Ive Done

Varsity Math Team

CAD

Object Oriented coding

FRC School Team CAD/ Mechanical Designer

President of Engineering Club

Non-Profit for Under privileged schools trying to get into FLL

Varsity Badminton and soon Varsity Tennis (Probably Badminton Captain Senior Year)

Received multiple awards (2 Academic, 3 Moral awards, 1 Volunteer award)

Run a STEM summer camp with other members of the Robotics tea for the youth

Teach elementary kids about what robotics is and how it helps us every year

Please give any STEM related extracurriculars please. Anything is appreciated.

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@AlexanderOddo
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953 answers, 658 votes
 • 3 years ago

I think that you are doing the right types of extracurriculars as a STEM-focused student. Here are my suggestions for ways you can improve your profile:

1. Try to take the same extracurriculars you are doing to the state, national, or international levels. This will turn your ECs into tier 1 and 2 activities, which colleges like to see. Work on increasing the tangible impact of each EC as well.

2. Participate in STEM competitions like these

3. Add at least one activity to your list that is not related to STEM to show that you are well rounded. An EC related to social justice or the humanities would be ideal.

4. Include one unique hobby on your list to demonstrate that you are active and show some personality.

Hope this helps!

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[🎤 AUTHOR]@Prancer3 years ago [edited]

Thank you so much for your answers as they are very helpful and I will try to join some of these other competitions. I do have a couple follow up questions however. Some of my ec’s can be easily pushed to 1a like robotics we have attended nationals before and my non profit should raise about 20k if done right. However for being president of the engineering club its hard to promote it to be integral to the school especially due to our lack of funding. Same problem with tennis and badminton

@AlexanderOddo
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3 years ago

It's great that you have some 1a ECs! Since you do, I would say that it is okay to have a few ECs that are not so highly ranked. The important thing with activities like badminton is they show personal flair, open mindedness, and well roundedness.

[🎤 AUTHOR]@Prancer3 years ago

Thank you very much

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