Extra Curricular Activities To Do In HS

[efript]

like the title says..... what are good extra curricular activities that look really good for college and are fun to be involved in?

 

[minendo]

Volunteering. Habitat for Humanity, Homeless shelter, Food bank, etc.

 

[fs5]

... must hold back sexual innuendos... too many... must hold back ...

 

[chiwawa626]

Volenteer...but do it the easy way, do like a 3-4 day camp councler kinda thing during spring break and you get 24 service hours for each day!! hah...makes it look like u volenteer A LOT but youll have fun doing it. Also try to get into a leadership class at school...i got into a leadership class called Mosaic which was basicly a easy history class...

 

[Kevin]

Join a team or something...

 

[gwlam12]

student council

sports

orchestra/band

key club

academic team

 

[pray4mojo]

Sports team?
Clubs?

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: gwlam12
student council

sports

orchestra/band

key club

academic team

What division are you in?

 

[guapo337]

umm if you're doing extra curriculars simply to impress colleges, you have a lot more to worry about.

just do things you like. whether they impress colleges or not should be secondary. if that.

 

[gwlam12]

Originally posted by: pray4mojo

Originally posted by: gwlam12
student council

sports

orchestra/band

key club

academic team

What division are you in?

not in high school anymore, but ...

student council for 3 years
orchestra for 2 years
tennis team for 1 year
yearbook for two years
academic decathlon for 1 year
destination imagination for 1 year
sr men and women club treasurer for 1 year
speech and debate

and here i am at ucsd. dunno how much extracurricular really helped me. =D but i had fun. wasnt doing it for college.

 

[Imported]

I always thought Mock Trial was fun..

Tennis was fun too.

 

[NoReMoRsE]

- Join a School Reach / Reach for the Top / Trivia team.

- Join / Form a Biotechnology Team where you devise your own biotech project, contact local scientists/corporations, do the research, and write a paper.

 

[Xenon14]

Whoever says volunteering and SAAD (Students Against Drunk Driving) are hipocrits. And so are the students in those clubs. They do it to get into college or whatever - it doesn't do anything for college.

You have to stand out, and the only thing better than being a leader of a club is starting your own club. Being a member doesn't count for anything.

Personally, the two clubs i was heavily involved in during my years in high school was the school newspaper - I was Editor of Opinions. And I was on the school's Debate team, i was captain of that. Not only were they fun for me to do, but they (mostly debate) taught me a lot more than my 4 years of official high school education did. Plus I enjoyed being a part of them, and having a high position in something you enjoy is very rewarding.

So: Don't join a club because it looks good, especially if you're only gonna be a member. You have to be a leader or, much better, a founder of a club. And you have to devote time to it. Quality over quantity. If a college sees you were a member of 10 clubs, all it will tell you is you never devoted yourself to any one club. Keep that in mind.

 

[her209]

Join an online forum.

 

[MisterPresident]

Originally posted by: Xenon14
Whoever says volunteering and SAAD (Students Against Drunk Driving) are hipocrits. And so are the students in those clubs. They do it to get into college or whatever - it doesn't do anything for college.

You have to stand out, and the only thing better than being a leader of a club is starting your own club. Being a member doesn't count for anything.

Personally, the two clubs i was heavily involved in during my years in high school was the school newspaper - I was Editor of Opinions. And I was on the school's Debate team, i was captain of that. Not only were they fun for me to do, but they (mostly debate) taught me a lot more than my 4 years of official high school education did. Plus I enjoyed being a part of them, and having a high position in something you enjoy is very rewarding.

So: Don't join a club because it looks good, especially if you're only gonna be a member. You have to be a leader or, much better, a founder of a club. And you have to devote time to it. Quality over quantity. If a college sees you were a member of 10 clubs, all it will tell you is you never devoted yourself to any one club. Keep that in mind.

I could not agree more. Nothing annoys me more than Little Miss NHS/KEY Club/Recycling Club/Feed the Needy Club/the list goes on. If you enjoy those things, fine... I don't. I enjoy every club I am in (debate, mocktrial, academic team, newspaper, business club), and if you are doing things just to "look good for college" there are bigger issues at hand. If you are interested in starting a new club that you and others have an interest in, go for it. Not only will you have fun doing it, but it will also meet the criteria set forth in your original post.

 

[MillionaireNextDoor]

Academic Decathlon
Academic Olympics
Science Olympiad
Mathletes
Clubs
Student Govt
ROP (you get to leave campus during school )
etc.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Xenon14
Whoever says volunteering and SAAD (Students Against Drunk Driving) are hipocrits. And so are the students in those clubs. They do it to get into college or whatever - it doesn't do anything for college.

How can you group doing it to get into college and doing it to help the community together?

 

[wfbberzerker]

find a girlfriend

 

[TheNemesis]

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: her209
Join an online forum.

And list your postcount on your college applications.

 

[shopbruin]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
...i got into a leadership class called Mosaic which was basicly a easy history class...

you went to FHS?!

<-- class of 1999, two years of ASB leadership (commissioners rule, the asb cabinet... um well..)

MOSAIC is supposed to "make our school an inclusive place" what the hell happened to it?!

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: Xenon14
Whoever says volunteering and SAAD (Students Against Drunk Driving) are hipocrits. And so are the students in those clubs. They do it to get into college or whatever - it doesn't do anything for college.

You have to stand out, and the only thing better than being a leader of a club is starting your own club. Being a member doesn't count for anything.

Personally, the two clubs i was heavily involved in during my years in high school was the school newspaper - I was Editor of Opinions. And I was on the school's Debate team, i was captain of that. Not only were they fun for me to do, but they (mostly debate) taught me a lot more than my 4 years of official high school education did. Plus I enjoyed being a part of them, and having a high position in something you enjoy is very rewarding.

So: Don't join a club because it looks good, especially if you're only gonna be a member. You have to be a leader or, much better, a founder of a club. And you have to devote time to it. Quality over quantity. If a college sees you were a member of 10 clubs, all it will tell you is you never devoted yourself to any one club. Keep that in mind.

Personally, I joined Key Club because its a great way to meet new people and help out the community.

 

[Sid59]

Water Polo
Swimming
Basketball
Class Officer
Spanish Club

 

[halik]

I personally didn't do anything,
i had a straight 4.0+ so i was like Fsck it, im done.
I didnt have any problems getting accepted to U of M / Ann Arbor so im thinking colleges just like me dont give a rats ass...
and dont even get me started on community service...


But good EC activites are women, alcohol and parties. Use them in random combinations, they seem to work well like that

 

[pennylane]

Forget Key Club. Long live Red Cross!!!

Start a club of your own. If it's successful more power to you. If it's not you can still say you started it.