Question by Star: Are my activities good enough to get into RPI or Penn State?
In School Activities
Student Ambassador 10,11,12
Career Club 9
Environmental Club 11,12
Spanish National Honors Society 11
Youth to Youth 11,12
Student Representative for PTSA 12
Peer Tutor 11,12
Journalism (Independent Study) 11
Out of School Activities
Black Youth Leadership Development Program 9,10
Project Excel: After school academy 10,11
Empowered Girls’ Alliance 10,11
Science Bowl 11
Horizons Summer Program at Clarkson University: Math and Science camp 9
Explore: Forensic Science 9,10
Urban Suburban Advisory Council 10
Volunteer Work
St. John’s Nursing Home 10,11
Arc of Monroe Disability Center 10
Tutoring at Adlai E. Stevenson School #29 10,11
Awards
CMST First Place Award (Math competition) 10
Universtity of Rochester, Rochester Scholars Scholarship 10
Academic Excellence (math, science, english, spanish, history) 10
Computer Key boarding (60 words/min) 9
Rensselaer Metal Award (Math and Science) 11
Mathmatics and English Core Academic Achievement Award 11
Old English F (extracurricular award) 9,10,11
Paid Work Experience
W.I.R.E.D: Participated to gain engineering experience 11
Student helper Foreign Language Dep: Assited teachers in their daily duties 11
S.T.E.P. : Participated to gain experience in the medical feild 10
G.E.D.Tutor in english and Math 11
Best answer:
Answer by Michael Jones
Extracurricular activities round out an application. If you have good grades and test scores with these activities, great. If you spend so much time on non-curriculum activities that your grades or test scores suffer, not so great.
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