Making a Combination of Extracurricular Activities
By now, you might have understood the importance of extracurricular activities in college application. After all no college wants their students to be dumb. Even after understanding about the importance of extracurriculars, you might have had confusions about what types of extracurricular activities colleges look for. As a high school student what you must be clear on what sort of extracurricular activities can impress the admissions committees of the colleges of your choice. You can develop a portfolio of extracurriculars based on three categories:
- Academic Activities
- Community Service Activities
- Personality Activities
Colleges generally look for students with a level of maturity and sense of aims and purposes alongside a good understanding of self. They are the same students wh are good at identifying their passions and interests and work from their level in order to do best in extracurricular activities of their choice.
You can build your own combination of extracurricular activities; the combination above is not a hard and fast rule. However, the characteristic feature of this combination of activities is that these activities help you showcase your personality and abilities along with display of your awareness and concern for others.
Let’s have a look at each of these activities in detail in order to understand what impact the combination can have on the admissions committee examining your college application.
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