How To Show Incentive in My ExtracurricularsAnswered
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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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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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