Saturday, December 10, 2011

Ivy League universities and extracurriculars?

You tell colleges what you do; clubs and instruments don't show up on your transcript. Everyone applying to the top schools has fantastic grades in the hardest cles and very high test scores. You need that just to compete, and then you need to find a way to stand out. Right now, you've got a ton of things planned, but none of them are really going to make you stand out to schools - there's a lot of them, but they're common. You want something unique to show them, something you're really pionate about. So drop all the stuff you're doing or plan to do that you don't really love and find something that you do. They're looking for the kinds of students who would do great things even if they weren't applying to colleges.

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