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Course: College admissions > Unit 2
Lesson 3: Extracurricular and leadership activities- Engaging in extracurricular activities
- Student story: Extracurriculars that are leadership opportunities
- Student story: Extracurriculars that are nontraditional
- Student story: Extracurriculars that are self created
- Student story: Extracurriculars that are a passion
- Student story: Extracurriculars that carry over from high school to college
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Student story: Extracurriculars that are nontraditional
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- Is there a way to start an extracurricular activity at your school if they don't offer one?(14 votes)
- If students have a very specific activity in mind, they can petition their schools to launch a new organization to pursue it, which usually can be done at no cost. To finance particular activities within the new club, students can organize fundraising events with the help of members and the school at large. Some schools limit the number of student organizations or do not allow students to start their own initiatives. If that’s the case, students can take advantage of umbrella organizations such as the honor societies, which often allow members, especially those on the executive board, to develop individual initiatives.(16 votes)
- would volenteer jobs be counted as extracurricular?(4 votes)
- Absolutely! Volunteer at your local food band, senior center, hospital, church. The opportunities are endless. Use you imagination and go for it. Do not forget that (if you are in high school or middle school) the local elementary school might need volunteers. TUTOR someone. good luck and good learning(8 votes)
- Is it only universities in the US that consider activities like these as extracurricular? I doubt any colleges in third world countries will accept baby-sitting cousins as a legit one.(1 vote)
- But if she applied for majors that are related to education, and especially preschool, that might have counted as a bonus.(6 votes)
- I'm on a Archery team, i have health problems but my college doesn't have a team or anything what should I do.(2 votes)
- You can normally go to your college and create a club, in this case Archery, and if it goes through with all the paperwork and whatnot, you can coordinate with other teams from other colleges and whatnot, and try to make a tournament or something. I would look at your college's website in regard to who to contact about making a club.(2 votes)
- why does it have to be traditional(1 vote)
- extracurricular activity(1 vote)
- The curriculum is what is intentionally taught in class, things like maths, languages, history, sciences, fine arts, health education, and civics. Things like sports, drama club, band, cheerleading, and the like are extras. That's why they're known as "extra-curricular".(1 vote)
- would voulenteer jobs count as extracurrical(1 vote)
- Yes. Because volunteer jobs are not a required part of the curriculum, they are "extra"-curricular.(1 vote)
Video transcript
- So even though I didn't participate in many of the traditional
extracurricular activities, I did play a large part in my family. My nephews lived with us
while I was in high school, and I watched them a lot. I wanted my parents to come home to a house that was calm and tranquil and somewhere that they
could somewhat relax, and I didn't want them to
be doing all of the work just because my parents
worked five days ... well, my mom worked five days a week, and my dad worked six days a week, and they deserved the break, and it was important for
me to be able to help them. I realized that when I was doing the college application process, that this was considered
an extracurricular because it's something that has
shaped me and my experience, so I was able to put that on
my college application process, not only in the extracurriculars, but I also wrote about it
in my personal statement, and that was an experience
that was unique to me, an experience that not everyone had, and I was, hopefully, able to stand out to my Admissions Officer.