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Cynthia Uh-huh.                   Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6301 days Last view: 6301 days |
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| And yet here, extracurricular activities pretty much mean NOTHING when it comes to getting accepted by universities.
I never got why they looked at so many factors. Here it's basically send in your transcript and cross your fingers. |
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witeasprinwow  Since: 12-29-05 Last post: 6410 days Last view: 6410 days |
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Originally posted by Colin American businesses (And a college is at its very core a business) have to act like they care about the people who buy their services. It's supposed to find "well-rounded" people, but it's all bullshit in my opinion. Some people are extremely well-rounded and don't join any clubs or anything, while a lot of one-dimensional people will join some random club or sport just to put it on their transcript. |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6301 days Last view: 6301 days |
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Exactly. It's sad that some people HAVE to take part in a few clubs/sports/etc. to get accepted into an university. I'm not saying that people are forced into it; I mean, if you like the photo club then join the photo club. But if you're pretty much being forced to volunteer for something you might not want to volunteer for in order to get into a good university... blech. I mean, honestly... one spot left in a program, 2 people. You going to take the person with the 3.9 GPA or the person who only has a 3.4 GPA but was in 4 different clubs? If you take the latter... 
Here, it's simple. If you have decent marks, you're in. If you don't, you're out. That's as competitive as it gets. |
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witeasprinwow Since: 12-29-05 Last post: 6410 days Last view: 6410 days |
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Originally posted by Colin I sorta agree, but I think the bigger problem is that no number of clubs show how diverse you truly are. If I had a choice between someone with perfect marks who was just going to drone through life like a log floating down a river, and a person with lesser marks who might actually go and do something, I would take the second person. I agree with the IDEA of it; but it all breaks down when you try to quantitize loosely defined concepts like "diverse" or "well-rounded." The number of clubs and sports you were in become just another number on your trascript, next to your GPA and SAT. It stops being something meaninful and become just another statistic for the 4.0 GPA 2400 SAT kids to fret about. I lucked out, as I never joined a single club or organized sport all high school and managed to get into my 1st choice. (edited by witeasprinwow on 06-05-06 01:46 AM) (edited by witeasprinwow on 06-05-06 01:47 AM) (edited by witeasprinwow on 06-05-06 01:52 AM) |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6301 days Last view: 6301 days |
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| And it also depends what clubs were offered at your school to boot. If it somehow had to come down to activities, something like working on the yearbook would probably be better than chess club.
...Yes, I was in the chess club. |
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Schweiz oder etwas [12:55] (Dr_Death16); I swear, the word drama needs to be stricken from the dictionary, for I've heard it so many times, it will permanently be imprinted on my brain  Since: 11-17-05 From: Kingston, Rhode Island Last post: 6301 days Last view: 6301 days |
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| You know what this means, right Colin...?
.....It means we need to form an "I like chess but I wasn't accepted at MIT" club. |
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neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day  Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6303 days Last view: 6301 days |
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| I made it into Berkeley with just 4 AP classes, 2 AP tests taken, one year of track, orchestra for 4 years, and a specialized community service club known as CSF (California Scholastic Federation). Oh, I took a bunch of community college classes before I entered the university.
However, I think when students apply to graduate school or higher learning, well-roundedness is key and what you actually do is finally important. |
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