7 Extracurricular Activities NOT to Put on your College Application

So you have a lot of extracurriculars. Volunteer at the animal shelter, play violin, and work at summer camp. Think you’re pretty special? Take a look at the 7 extracurricular activities that won’t impress a college admissions officer. Make sure they’re not your college application!

1) 1st Kazoo Player-What are you, eight? If your musical talents lie in making multi-octave fart noises, pack up your instrument, and go home.

2) Quidditch Captain-It’s. Not. A. Real. Sport. Unless you are a magical boy-wonder hell-bent on saving the world from dark forces (or you want to go to Vassar College) do not play Quidditch. Or Curling. Really, any sport that requires a broom.

3) Keeper of the Ring-Okay, so you and your friends really, really like Lord of the Rings. Spare the rest of us the misfortune of watching you hike around for days while you yammer on about “the power of the ring”. We all saw the movie. And it sucked.

4) Starbucks Volunteer-Just because your best friend works at Starbucks and you hang around all
day to bum free coffee (and occasionally put up the chairs at the end of the night) does not mean you “volunteer” there. Get a real job.

5) V.P. of the Pepsi Rocket Club-Minimal scientific value=minimal college admissions points. Try
building a rocket with materials you didn’t shoplift from the corner store.

6) Secretary of the You-Tube AV Club-Maybe if you make 100 lame, annoying videos on you-tube, you’ll finally make the one that propels you to international internet fame. Just don’t tell the college admissions office about it.

7) Computer Solitaire League-Um, you play it by yourself. Is it really a league?

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06.25.09

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