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I'm a junior and I haven't figured out what i want to do in the the future. I am interested in Computer Science, Marketing, Buisness and Nutrition. I have a passion for football, sports, and video games. I’m really in a stuck area right now between trying to be well rounded and having a big spike. For sports/football I play football and was a freshman, and JV captain and I hope to crack Varsity this year. I also am a coach of a youth flag football team. I also started a football club at my school the last year and am president of ultimate frisbee and I am trying to get a competitive team here. For Video games I have created a couple of my own small video games and look to make more hopefully. I also have my own tutoring business where I teach math, english, and coding so far Javascript, Python, an Html I even coded my own webpage for it. For computer science I did what i just said, I also am a member of Coding Club and I think I can get vice president this year and I placed 8th in state for the school of mines coding competition. For business I have my tutoring business and I also run my own baking business with one of my good friends and this past year we did a fundraiser where we raised $521 for a teacher at our school who lost her home in the Marshall Fires. I also do FBLA where I can hopefully get a leadership role this upcoming year. I am also a member of chess club and key club. I also have a job at Topgolf as a food runner. I am in a club called knowledge bowl and have a high chance of being vice president where we won state back to back years and placed 2nd in nationals my freshman year and placed 5th this year at Nationals. Is my application good enough and do I have a big spike in one area.
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Hi! I would say your application is definitely strong. I would suggest putting as much stuff as you can into your extracurriculars on your Collegevine profile and see how that affects your admission chances to colleges you are looking at. Colleges love to see involvement within your school and community.
You definitely have big strengths in sports and computers as a whole. While you are narrowing down what you would want to major in, maybe start looking for schools that have majors in the areas you're currently interested in just to help you get started.
You will get into a college no problem. Focus on fit, not prestige.
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Hey! Your ECs are leaning more towards Comp Sci but they're pretty spread out at the same time. I think your stronger attributes would be CS and business seeing as you have more extracurriculars that fit into those two categories. Since you only have a limited number of EC slot options, put the more impressive activities on your application when you apply in senior year. Those include the clubs and organizations where you have strong leadership positions/you founded. As for junior year, try obtaining even higher leadership positions or making the organizations you founded bigger and more impressive.
The last piece of advice is that when you're applying to different colleges, you can apply for different majors. For example, you could apply for MIT as a CS major but for UPenn as a Business major.
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