Colleges may not care much about sports but there’s more to life than only doing things that appeal to elite college admissions. It’s pretty simple - if you like something, do it.

1. Sports *everyone has played a sport* (unless you are really good or the captain) 2. Volunteer Work (make sure it you are passionate about it) *it has to have a theme* 3. Position of Club (if you are founder or officer of club) *most importantly your contributions* 4. Random activities that feel bottom slots (it is very tempting!)

you're right, Brown did not care about my conspiracy theory club i started... but UCSB did 😎

I just do what I like and strive to be the best at it. Don’t let an institution determine what you do with your life; do what u wanna do

I would counter that sports argument because if it really does take up so much time (it does im on the track and field team) it shows that even with that strict schedule you are able to maintain great grades and even do some other extracurriculars it shows you are responsible and have great time management skills. Not to mention that you are dedicated to what you love to do.

Ahahah! “2 languages at once😱”. I love how this is a big thing for Americans, but like in Estonia (or many other countries) 2 foreign languages are mandatory.....and many even take 3.

I agree about the volunteer work especially. I’m currently a junior, and wasted my freshman and sophomore years doing useless volunteer work. This year, I started volunteering at my local library to teach 1st-8th graders math because I’m very passionate about math and I’m planning to major in it. It makes me feel like I’m making a difference in someone’s life because most of the kids I work with weren’t interested in math and I understand that because I hated math at first until my 7th grade math teacher made me really interested in the subject. I try to teach them in a fun and interesting way to share my passion with them, and the best thing for me is when one of the students has a bright look on their face after understanding something challenging for them.

Sometimes people get too caught up in the next step and forget to enjoy the one they are at. I get it a lot of people play sports and it might not look that good for colleges, but in the end of the day the bonds formed on those teams wins out.

Actually, if you are honestly putting in hard work and effort into an activity, don’t hesitate to include it in your college apps. The ONLY scenario where colleges won’t care about activities you do (or will it hurt your app in any way) is if you just sign up for 1000 clubs/organizations and rarely show up or dedicate yourself.

"Colleges really care that all of your activities have a theme in common and that you're not just doing volunteer work for college."

Great videos man. You changed my perception of the college admissions process

Hey Greg! I honestly love this advice you give us as the public. This is helping me decide which colleges I want to go now. I'm a sophomore currently, and I'm wanting to start a club myself as a junior. My passion is Computer Science. Can you give me some tips on how I can apply that knowledge to do something like community service? This would be helpful. One more thing, thanks for the great information!

Thank you so much, I am a rising senior and this video helped a lot!!

I want to say that adding a job, even a summer job, can be important. The dean of admissions for Tulane, a top 50 school, says it's one of his favorite activities to see on a application.

These videos help me more than my guidance counselors at school!

You made all these “mistakes” and still got in...

Hey Greg! I'm very interested in literature instruction and the role that high school plays in student motivation to read (or lack thereof)-especially as a student from a country where nationwide reading rates are notably low. I've been involved in a number of projects related to this: started a student book club and a literary magazine, wrote a research project about how different approaches in class affect reading rates and interest, and am now hoping to spread reading habits joining a team of volunteers who teach English at a disadvantaged neighborhood. My "problem" is that while I know that I want this to be my "main thread" so to speak, I've also spent a lot of time, in the past year especially, involved in orchestra activities-festivals, conservatory classes, some work experience. It's a hobby that means a lot to me and has been my most consistent extracurricular over the years, but not what I want to focus on in college. I don't think omitting this whole musical background would make sense because it has inevitably been a large part of my life, but I'm struggling to find a way to connect it to the rest of my application. Any tips? (Sorry for how long this turned out!!)

I’m almost done with my early applications and tbh I rarely thought about college through high school and nothing I did besides take ap’s was with the intention of helping me get into college. I just did what I liked and what I thought would be fun.

Thank god I’m finding out about you my junior year of high school. I am basing my application off of what you are saying

This was very helpful and honest. Thank you! I want to pursue energy-engineering, please let me know if you have any ideas about what clubs I should join.

Hey Greg, this was very helpful! I have been doing lots of volunteer work at this afterschool place for kids. I have organized fundraisers for them and organized several volunteer events for them throughout my hs experience. Is this the type of volunteer work that they would care about?

Question: are people seeing my custom thumbnail? For some reason when I search this video up, I just see a frame from the video... this happened to all my videos recently...

You have helped me so much

great vid! thanks a lot!!!

Also, you can just stick with an extracurricular if you enjoy doing it! As someone who also signed up for way too many clubs my freshman year (tennis, track, drama, model un, mock trial, etc) I can tell you that you should stick with what you love, not if it will make your application look “perfect” because the perfect application is the one that’s the most authentic! You don’t need to be president of the club to seem dedicated, you don’t need to be captain of the team to show you love a sport. It’ll all work out.

One thing, from American education system, that I wish to have here in Europe, is the variety of clubs and extracurricular activities on school. We barely have more than 4 extracurricular activities in our schools (and most of them are sports).

Hey Greg, I wanted to ask you about the whole 'IQ' thing and I've been wanting to hear what you had to say about it. I recall seeing an individual speaking about how you required to have a 125 IQ and if you had anything lower then you oughtn't consider going into a prestigious Ivy League. Do you think it has to do with innate intelligence or does it have to do more with work ethic and putting time and dedication into academics?

Regarding Volunteer work, it's worth looking into sponsorship programs early into you highschool career. For example, Florida will give you hella money if you meet a few fairly easy standards, including 100 hours of volunteer work over your highschool career.

Hi Greg!! Throughout high school, I was not sure what I wanted to study because I liked both my STEM and humanities courses but found myself mainly doing the humanities with debating and writing. I am a junior now and still really love those extracurricular activities so want to for sure continue those but I find myself more and more liking business and technology because of how much I enjoyed my math and computer science courses. I am trying to gain more experience in the business/tech while continuing to do the humanities extracurriculars I am passionate about but I am worried that I don't have much consistency in my "story" and it's hard to choose what theme to really focus on as I like both STEM and humanities a lot but am stronger in terms of extracurriculars in the latter. I also feel like it's too late for me to get into anything like competitive math or coding since I've focused majority of high school so far in my other extracurriculars. I would be beyond thankful for any advice! Ur videos are awesome n I subscribed right away!.

THANK GOD I only signed up for Key Club. I need to focuse on academics and sewing and writing. MY HOBBIES are the things I love!

Hey I went to a military boarding school , never really had the opportunity to do any of things you speak of😕 , im now taking a year off to be an au pair in effort to be more dynamic . My dream school is northwestern

Hey Greg! I play basketball and since I didn’t make the team this year, I was a team leader, which means I went to the games of the team and I worked with the coach and player. Also, I am interested in economics, finance (and that sort of field). Do you know anything I could do that colleges will like?

My passion is learning about the Universe and the extracurriculars I do are: °Volunteering at my nearest planetarium. °Publishing articles on scientific topics at the news paper every week °Astrophotography °Student Government are these extracurriculars enough or should I do more? Is having all 10 extracurriculars necessary? If yes then can you suggest some more which are related to astrophysics? Other than joining clubs.

Hey Greg I have a business studies stream and am looking for colleges in Canada/USA, along with that I am perplexed with what activities to take up to get into good universities.

Hello there... First thing, I love your videos! I know, cliche, but it's the truth Second thing, I had something similar to my freshman year(all clubs, but no sports), but I remained the first of my class for the year.... and I was wondering... How do college students run their clubs with the creativity that got them into college in the first place?

I think sports can be useful for college depending on the sport you do. If you do soccer or football, it would be quite hard to stand out. However, if you did something like archery, or fencing (which I do), or sailing, not many people do it, so your chances of standing out will get higher.

Sup Greg, I just found your channel today by watching your video on getting into Princeton. I am going to be a freshman soon, and I have no idea what I want to do. I am not a star soccer player, but I am decent. I have recently found a love for skiing. I enjoy math and social studies, and I have been on the morning shows in our district for over 2 years (this is my 3rd year) and I am looking to continue this in high school. I am also the treasurer of our student leadership club. Any suggestions?

Hi Greg! Love your videos, they're so helpful! I am on my school's tennis team, go to my school's Columbia Writing club (which is where Columbia graduate students come and teach us about creative writing), take violin lessons but I'm not part of any sort of writing club, volunteer at a hospital in my community and my church, performed in many school plays as I go to a performing arts high school and am a drama major, and speak two languages other than English. I feel that I have many activities but none with a real "wow factor" when it comes to leadership. My goal is to be a bio major in college. I would really appreciate your advice! :))

Is giving back to an organization that helped me a lot a good form a community service to put on applications even if it doesn’t fit my theme a good idea?

do you think colleges(non-music universities) will be interested in music? especially composing?

Hi Greg, would you say it matters if a volunteer service you did has something to do with your major? Thanks.

I am really interested in Computer Science + Economics. What are some ways to pursue those activities?

Hello Greg! I love your videos a lot and they are really informative for me as a senior ready to apply for college. I have watched your tips on the common application essays and they have changed the way I thought about these essays. Moreover, I was wondering if my lifelong hobby of Coin Collecting would be considered an extracurricular. I have done this since 1st grade and I actively have a blog website where I discuss the history and the analysis of a particular coin. Thank you!

i almost quit track freshman year because i wasn't as good as i was in middle school but then it ended up getting me recruited for williams and it got other good schools like emory and pomona to reach out to me so it's good i didn't quit

Hey Greg, I'm an extremely academic person and want to do physics in college. I'm in several academic clubs but no volunteering or sports or art ones. What should I do to improve my situation?

thank you really helped

Hey Greg I loved your video a lot because I was freaking out on everything but I am in some few clubs and I don’t know how to contribute greatly to these clubs and I am also interested in fundraising for something but I don’t know how to. And I don’t know if making a club for it will be the right thing or not so I’m confused.

I’m actually really interested in teaching esol since I went through the program in elementary school. Are there any programs online where I can sign up to tutor esl or low income kids?

Great video Greg! Just a suggestion, could you make a video on improving your writing for college essays or how to write one? Also, my admissions situation is like this so far: I'm super passionate about the visual arts, and also interested in computer science, but to a lesser extent. My current extracurriculars are: Being part of a selective art program at my high school, volunteering at a local library where we give kids art lessons, creating web applications for clients wanting to digitalize some part of their routine (including the local recreation center), and working on a comic book that promotes environmental health. Despite being a part of these activities, I'm not sure how to make an impact or major contribution. Also, do you think these are good things to put on my college resume? Thank you for reading!

I totally agree about the sports one. I've spent so much time on sports in my freshman and sophomore years (6 hours per week in the spring) and it felt like a waste of time when I didn't excel in it nor have any leadership positions. Luckily I got to be the captain in my junior year and I wrote that in one of my essays. Thing is, you either spend a lot of time on it and make sure you get RECOGNIZED and get a million AWARDS or just not do it (unless it's for pleasure, like listening to music is to me).

Hey! Do model UN conferences look good on college applications? That's pretty much the only activity that I'm into, if you don't count my school's Senate (I've held positions like the school's vice captain and the school editor which the editorial head). BTW your videos are very helpful :)

Yeah! Quite good information you have given. I found a community service organisation 5 yrs earlier. Does it impact on my profile? The thing is, this organisation is not so big. It serves just in our area. Activities like: Cleaning our surroundings, helping poor, teaching students for free and so on. Moreover, I found a Physics club in my hi school after immediately graduating the senior year 😢. I had to manage the guidance, the Principal and many other issues. So I can't established it during my hi school time. Does it impact negatively? Or positively.

I’m really into music but I feel stuck when considering what I can do. I’ve been in my church choir since I was eight but I’m a junior now and I don’t know how to do something interesting with music that colleges will be interested in that also gives me community service hours

Hey Greg I was wondering what type of computer related volunteer opportunities I could pursue . Additionally I’m a Sophmore and still in JV tennis but I want to continue doing tennis even though I’m not good. Like I’m not doing it for colleges. Will the colleges view this in a negative way or will they be a little more understanding? Thanks

Hey Greg, So I’m going to be a freshman in high school next year, but this summer I’m hoping to establish my foundations for The extracurriculars I’m planning to do throughout high school. The thing is, I play volleyball club and it’s the exact situation with you and your track team. I’m hoping to get a volleyball scholarship, but it doesn’t look very likely to happen if you compare my skills to my teammates. However , volleyball at my school is way less competitive and I think I can become president of my school volleyball team, so I’m debating whether or not I should continue volleyball. I’m also really interested in Language Arts and I’m positive I could win a few writing competitions or join a few clubs if I wanted to. The last aspect of my situation (sorry that this is so long, I’m just really stressed about it!), is that I’m planning to be a medical doctor. Both of my parents are doctors, so I’m guaranteed a few research assistant positions and volunteer work at my local hospital. Overall, I’m just really confused about what direction I should take and if I should continue volleyball or not, even though I spend probably more than 300 hours on it, I just love it a lot.

I love to help people. I really love to help people with their situations and get them into a better place or take off some of their work load. I don't know what volunteering I should do for this, though, because it sounds so cliché that I'm worried that colleges just won't care. I've always been giving as much as I can to people who ask for things they need. Please help. I am also interested in puzzles! Not jigsaw puzzles or rubiks cubes. I like box puzzles, Hanayama puzzles, metal puzzles! But there isn't really much I can do with this.. I can't find any organizations or clubs or meetups/groups that explore this sort of thing, and I don't think there are many people who are interested or even know of this. I am also interested in nature and spend as much of my free time as I can in the ravine outside my backyard! What can I do to get leadership positions or volunteering etc. in these ? I'm feeling pretty hopeless as of right now. I was thinking I could create a puzzle club but we already have a board game club and I'm afraid the school would think it's too similar. Any suggestions are appreciated! :)

I am going to correct this kid. Do the activity you enjoy, do not do an activity just for college applications. If playing a sport makes you light up like a Christmas Tree level happy, then stick with it. Even if you are not good at it. Do the activity that is going to make you the most centered mentally. If doing a sport makes you miserable, than quit. Same goes for all other clubs and volunteer activity. College admissions people can tell whether the activity that you chose was done just for an impressive app or done because you are passionate about it.

I am really interested in engineering/computer science and leadership. For leadership, I do boy scouts (working on my eagle) and also the president of a programming club. Are there any activities I could do that would fall under either of these categories. Thanks so much!

i’m interested in art, additionally psychology and human behavior really fascinates me, helping others + social change, and reading/writing. i feel like all my interests are too diverse to create one specific narrative for my application. do you have any advice? additionally, any volunteering which would correlate towards my interests?

I know that people recently have been saying to show a great interest in one area and not to be well rounded but what if I’ve been well rounded in activities for awhile? I’ve been playing piano since 2nd grade and lacrosse since 5th grade so want to continue both when I go to college next year. At the moment (although I know things can always change) I’m looking into engineering and my high school offers those classes. Anyway, is this too well rounded and too many time commitments or will i be fine with time management?

I feel like it helps to join a bunch of clubs at the beginning of 9th grade just to get a feel of what you actually enjoy. After attending for a little while, just cut out the ones you don't find that interesting. I experimented and then stuck with the 2 or 3 that I thought I could pursue for the rest of high school.

Hello, Greg!! Nice video and thank u for your tips: ) I'm a freshman and interested in Biology&Math. I'm an international student so I know both Chinese&English, and I'm currently learning French. Do you have any suggestions for me about the extracurricular activities? (I'm still a bit confused even though your video is so great.) Thank u !!

Hello Greg. Sorry for the late comment. I am interested in pursuing law in college and as a profession. What are your high school tips for one who wants to become a lawyer?

Hi Greg, I'm not sure this is good, but I'm restarting the french club in my school. Do you think this is a good idea as I have model un and global leadership as some of my other clubs. (note: Other clubs I'm in include academic games, academic decalthon, and chess club (hold officer spot)).

Hey Greg! Loved the video!! I have a question... I’m a junior who is very passionate about the arts- performing and visual. I am the founder and leader of my speak up club which brings together all speech, debate, and performance type clubs and I put my artwork into many statewide and national shows/ competitions. I just joined dance this year and made the varsity team but found that it has been taking up so much of my time, energy, and life in general really. Because of it, I can’t focus on properly running my clubs and memorizing my speeches. I feel the need to quit but do not want to let down my coach, the team, and even myself. I’m so conflicted over this and was wondering if you had any advice! Thanks so much for the video, it was really helpful in my realization of this issue haha!

Hey I just wanted to know your thoughts on how I can relate my passion to volunteer and community service. I am very passionate in music and I even sing in my church choir. I am a Youth leader and I talk to many youth and young children and help them through situations. I also am involved in student council in my school and I help plan activities and I am planning to run for president of student council next school year. I am also in Key a club which is a community service organization in my school. I know that I have done some volunteering and I would love to do more, but I want to know if this is enough as I continue or should I do more with my passions. Also by the way I am going into a STEM major in college and I am currently a junior. Thank you

(I know I'm super late lol) I'm in FFA, and I'm wondering if I should just add FFA as an extracurricular or add all of the individual activities within FFA. Parliamentary Procedure, Public Speaking, Volunteer Work through FFA, etc.

I only had an after school job as my "activities" in high school. I didn't do any sports. I told my interviewer at Williams College in 1983 that I "feel I can help out the Track Team". I got admitted to Williams College, matriculated, then forgot about this promise until I saw the indoor track team practicing in the field house in January. I was messing around on some of the equipment and the coach invited me to the track meet the following day. He gave me a huge pair of shorts that flew up like a dress and some track cleats that looked like they came from the 1960 😂. I ended up setting Williams College outdoor 800M record in 1986, which stands to this day. It felt great that someone believed in me to let me in to this prestigious school, despite not having great high school portfolio. Every time I trained in the hills around Williamstown I kept this gratitude in my heart. 👍

I want to be an engineer and my father is a ceo of a large engineering company. How would I turn this into a extra curricular activity towards colleges because I’m thinking about doing an intern or maybe managing a social media account, or is there something more appealing to do?

I was in a drama club in grade 8 (I’m in grade 9) and then the clubs stopped half way though the year , I play with dolls and draw stuff on a iPad so I wonder if that’s a good thing for future college application

Hey Greg, I’m currently a junior in the second semester. Music, specifically my violin, has been my spike throughout my high school career, so I have a lot to say about that in my upcoming college apps. However, I want to go into the engineering or computer science field, and I unfortunately haven’t done any engineering/cs related activities throughout my high school years. So how in the world would I be able to stand out amongst the others applying to the elite engineering schools?

Hey Greg I am a junior in high school who hopes to one day attend law school. I was wondering if you had some recommendations on how I could improve my chances of getting into my dream school, Columbia.

I like mock trial though. It’s really fun, but I’m sad they don’t care about it. I started last year and am doing it again. Good thing the only sport I do is archery.

"everyone has played a sport" My school doesn't even offer any sports ..my school has like 360 kinds and A BUNCH of clubs so most of the kids are in several clubs...I'm a senior in 5 clubs and I was president of my class last year. Honestly I'd just say to do what you want and work hard, if you love it and try your best you'll find the school that's right for you.

Hi Greg! I have a question. I am in an arts school wanting to transfer to Harvard. I already have many classes: Music theory (lots of hw) Ear training (lots of hw) Piano lesson (lots of hrs needed) Musical history (lots of essays) Piano seminar (just attendence) Choir (lots of prep) And I also have 6-7 hours of work weekly. My main focus is piano performance and I want to do well in it by winning competitions within school. But I was wondering if having this extra class with a harvard professor who teaches at our school would be an exception about what you said. To be honest, I feel it would become extra stress to me as it would mean another essay writing class on top of what I already have. Although I have done well in literature classes in the past, I have fear of getting something less than an A as I hear that this professor is particularly demanding. Would it be worth it? I personally have mixed feelings about my interest - I am generally open minded about learning new things in terms of exploring ideas through analysis course in a piece of literature, I feel with the amount of work that I already have i have doubts and pre-stress over whether if I can manage the stretch, and if the stretch is worth my effort at all in the first place. Do you think the connection with a harvard professor would be helpful for my harvard transfer process? I am sure that you may already know this but I wanted to note that transfer process in harvard or any other top notch schools are so much harder than the freshmen application. I was wondering if you could give me an advice that ties the transfer factor and my aforementioned concern of having an elective literature class with harvard professor. Thank you for reading this and I hope I can get your insight on this. And thank you so much for your video, Greg!

Hey! Im hoping you’ll see this and be able to help me out because I’m a little stuck. I’m really interested in the sciences and I was thinking of starting my own club but I’m not sure what the common goal of the club should be. I’m really passionate about Neuroscience, Medicine and Biology and Astronomy but I’m worried, what would we actually do in the club? Should we raise money for the hospital or should it be more academic related? I also really like your suggestion for starting a fundraiser for a disease your interested! Thank you for making this video, you give really good advice! I would appreciate any help.

I did 6 clubs for freshmen year and 7 clubs for sophomore. I’m going to try to do 7 again for junior, if that doesn’t work for colleges, donations... 😂😭😅

Thank you greg! Because of you, I got 1year of prep, and I am tutoring every day, which is my passion! If I make an organization of teaching, do you think I am very competitive? Do you have any advice?

Hey, if I want to pursue a career in computer science, what kind of volunteer work would I have to do to stand out towards Princeton?

I have a question. I take mock trial, debate, theatre, etc. On the college application will I be able to say how all these activities are connected because they helped with public speaking. For college I want to be in the performing arts. I don’t want colleges to think I slapped theatre and mock trial as something random. Is there an option for explaining?

Hi Greg. I want to major in pediatric medicine. But I have numerous of passions other than medicine. I am in the theatre club, the debate club, optimist (similar to red cross), used to be in a youth development club and I used to be in the science club (you can only be in the science club for 1 term) (I don't live in the US). {I am very dedicated to these clubs and was devastated when I couldn't get to continue doing those two clubs}.😥 Do the collages mostly want extra curricular activities that focuses on my major? and if so could you recommend some activities that I should do to boost my chances of getting accepted into ivy league schools?

Hey Greg! I want to apply for a chemical engineering major. Right now im the president of my schools science club and treasurer of chess club. I'm about to get into student council and NHS, and thinking about joining art club (I enjoy art and perhaps this would look creative). Do top schools really care about leadership positions like stuco and nhs if you are not an officer? Do you think these clubs would be relevant to my major? And do colleges really care about NHS? Thanks for reading my comment and perhaps responding to some of my questions!

Hey bro I need some advice. I didn’t have the best grades at all freshmen and sophomore year (86 & 87) - regular honor roll, but during my junior year I just made high honor roll with a 91. I know that the first few months of senior year I can maintain atleast a 92. I also have a 1330 SAT (not the best but I’m taking it again in October), which is a month before Early Action deadlines. I also ran track for 4 years and varsity for 3 years and an I’m all county athlete (hopefully state qualifier) and most likely going to be captain for sprints & jumps. I played in the marching band (2 yrs Concert band & then 2 years Symphonic band). I also know 3 languages. Idek if that helps which I hope it does but with all that said, do you think I can get into a good Computer Science school? Top 50 perhaps, thanks.

Awesome tips Greg! Hey it’s me again! I’m a junior and I’m interested in filmmaking and education.. I’m wondering if these activities can paint a good picture for selective colleges. 1) do you have any suggestions of things I should do in junior year spring/summer before senior year? Also, my concern is that although I do have intent to be a filmmaker, I’m not sure if I want to solidify as a film major yet. 2) If I ended up choosing a non-film major for college, are these activities still valid? Here are some of my activities (also I’m sorry if it seems like a boring brag sheet..I just wanna see if there is a pattern here :) for filmmaking: - I’m currently in two filmmaking programs outside of school. I made a short film over the summer and directed a live show last semester. (But I haven’t won any awards or recognitions, so I don’t know if this is only considered a hobby to colleges). - I’m in the film club and comedy troupe (improv) For education: - volunteering to teach a kid in rural China English online. - tutoring an upperclassman Mandarin. - internship at a children’s art space - since my school is k-12, I’m helping a kindergartner in the special education program. Can you see a theme/connections in these activities? If they are not strong enough, what are some ways to improve them? How do I make myself more distinguishable? Thanks so much for your time!! :) I really appreciate it!

Hey, I'm really into economics but don't know what activity I could do with that, for my applications

Hey Greg! I‘m an international student. I wonder whether building a website with computer knowledge can be an appealing EC for colleges? esp. I want to use this EC for the main EC to support my application. The main theme or function of this website is the international students' community in which everyone can share and communicate.

I go to an international school. But I am seriously deciding whether I should play basketball or not. I really love basketball and my grades are also good. But varsity basketball is too hard for me, so I am currently a captain in JV basketball. Do you think being a captain in a JV basketball team would help? Or would Varsity basketball captain only help?

My current activities are FBLA, academic decathlon, volleyball, and chorus

I am a freshmen in high school and am very close to achieving my Eagle Scout do you think this will be something that will help me as it teaches leadership and various skills

Hey greg! I'm an indian high school student and i play badminton and I'm a district quarter finalist,I've also learned to play guitar,piano and drums and teach guitar to Christian and non Christian childrens at the church and i also play for my school choir 4 times a week and I'm also planning to start a speech and debate club....will these activities help me or should i do more?

Hey Greg I am a freshman in highschool who hopes to one day attend film school. I was wondering if you had some recommendations on how I could improve my chances of getting into my dream school USC

Hi Greg! My name is Ashtyn and I'm a sophomore in HS. I was wondering if you could tell me your opinion on my extracurriculars? I plan to go into Immunology (the science of the immune system). I get all As (Hopefully I continue to haha). My resume is themed around my passion for science, cooking/baking, and swimming. 1. *Science* - I am volunteering at St. Lukes. At St. Lukes, I mostly restock, make patient beds, and transport patients via stretchers/wheelchairs. I'm not sure if this matters, but I also got an extremely high score on my Biology Keystones (1670). I plan to take the PSAT, SAT, and ACT this year/summer. 2. *Cooking/Baking* - I am also volunteering at my local soup kitchen and it really influenced the way I see things (since I was born kind of privileged, it was an eye-opening kind of experience). I am involved in the Cooking Club at my school as well and hope to secure a position in it this year (such as a treasurer or secretary, etc etc). I have a website with recipes without specific allergens (as a way to reference my passion for Immunology) and plan to start a club modeled on the website my junior year. 3. *Swim* - I am on the swim team/club and I am on the varsity team (as a sophomore) and *hopefully* will become captain my senior year. Per week, I work out (with my team/Swim club) for ~16 hours and 30 minutes per week, not including swim meets (competitions). During summer, I lifeguard at my local pool. I also teach kids how to swim year-round through my school and pool. Overall, I am very involved with the swim team and volunteer on Saturdays (for both St. Lukes and the soup kitchen) regularly. I will have 1,000+ volunteer hours if I continue with these activities. In addition to this, I am also wondering how many referrals I should get? Should I get them mainly from science teachers? Does it matter what kind of teachers I get referrals from? Thanks for your help!!

Colleges like well rounded, passionate, and committed students

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I'm in key club, culinary arts alub, yearbook club, national art honor society, hand bells group, and created my own club which i did it for a year. Are those helpful at all? I also did track but I only did it for 1 and a half year. I love being part of those clubs but my grades aren't that good which is also why I'm continuing to be part of the clubs.

Hi Greg! I am entering 9th grade and I have interests in Social Sciences. I am currently planning on joining Model UN and Political Action club. I’m also planning on interning for a law firm or a local politician for the near future. My dream school is Yale. Do you have any ideas or tips I could use?

Hey Greg! Im Japanese boy who are currently attending to Canadian boarding highschool right now. Im joining music band at Japan over this summer. I do live performance with my friends at a club or pub. Also Im in a basketball club as well. Do collage care about music band's that I do? I dont really do any charity but I just perform in front of everybody. Do those help out for collage?

I am really interest in healthcare related things, for example, I am interested in neurology and cardiology as well as surgeries, but i dont know how to really start a club or anything about it, i was wondering if you could give me some ideas. Thank you!

hi greg, is there a way to contact you outside the comment section regarding questions about creating clubs

I’m planning to not do debate in high school though many say it’s useful 1, because it was boring when I tried it this year 2, I don’t wanna spend time on it 3, it’s going to take up too much time because I take forever to write speeches Btw I hope to make USAMO next year. What do you guys think?