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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 carry over from high school to college
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- Is Volleyball counted as an extracurricular activity?(6 votes)
- Yep, any activity that is not part of the school curriculum is extracurricular. Anything you do outside of school.(6 votes)
- what if person who is not captain of sport he/she playing?(2 votes)
- Being a captain or some kind of officer is good, but it's not the end of the world if you don't get the position.(13 votes)
- What if you don't want to join any clubs in your school and prefer to do your own extracurricular outside of school? Will it count when colleges are looking for your profiles?(4 votes)
- Yes. Any organization you do outside of school, they will take into consideration. Things like sports, musical instrument lessons, church activities, etc. Definitely put all of that down(5 votes)
- Does Toastmasters International look good on a college resume?(4 votes)
- Yeah! Colleges want to see leadership and Toastmastesrs seems to be something that can really help with leadership.(2 votes)
- Would colleges care if you participated on a recreational sports team like could you it add on your resume? or, are they more inclined to seeing people on the school sports team?(4 votes)
- Does starting a program at your school count as extracurricular? A detailed and explained answer would be appreciated.(3 votes)
- Yes. For example, one of my friends started a saxophone choir at my school, which I am a part of, and it counts as an extracurricular. Another one of my friends also started a team to plan and organize a hackathon, which I am also a part of, and it counts as extracurricular. If you are going out of your way and putting in effort to do something extra, then it counts as extracurricular.(2 votes)
- How helpful is community service in our college applications?(2 votes)
- This can vary greatly depending on the college you apply to and other factors being considered as part of your application, but here is one source at least that says it can make a difference: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2018/04/05/new-survey-shows-value-of-community-service-in-college-admissions/#66ad6f33d3a1(2 votes)
- how do you balance all of that(2 votes)
- You manage your time, you follow your schedule to a T.(2 votes)
- Many people say sideline cheerleading isn't a sport, but it's still an extracurricular activity, correct?(2 votes)
- Do sports look impressive on college applications?(2 votes)
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- I did basketball,
varsity basketball, my sophomore, junior and
senior year in high school, and that was really fun for me, because I was captain
junior and senior year, and I got to work with a bunch of girls who were from different backgrounds that come together and be collaborative just to get, to reach one goal. And we were really good in high school. And so when I got to college, I didn't want to be on the actual team, which they called the varsity team, I wanted to be on the club team, so it's less of a time commitment, but still a time commitment. So the club team, we typically travel, we play tournaments at different schools. I've been to Georgia, Delaware, Virginia. We are not as good as, like, my high school team was, and so I'm still a captain on that team. So I'm dealing with different
types of challenges, but it's still fun to work with a different group of
girls that are trying to win.