How much does things like leadership and extracurricular activities weigh
when compared to your grades?
I know that these things make the deal when you are apply to a program that you only meet the minimum requirements for.
For example, you are applying to a program that requires 85% when your average is 80-85.I also know that there are programs that individually selects its students (such as engineering at UW), in which case I would imagine extracurricular activities must play a great role in as well.
I am not a person who does a lot of the extracurricular activities, at least none that will help me get into university. This is because I spend a lot of time with other things that I (I know I'll sound selfish here) care more about. I am the president of our school's anime club, co-president of the art club (which will not exist next year because our staff sponsor is being sent to another school, and no other teacher is willing to replace her). I am also in yearbook but not an executive member. I am also on a sport team.
In terms of community involvement, I do have some records, but not a lot. I have 60 hours, which is a drop in the bucket compared to all the members on this forum. The quality of those hours are not impressive either. Most of it is done by shelving books and helping out at the Ontario Summer games, all done in my gr.9 year. I also see some university wanting things that are done in the 2 most recent years, which I have about 7 hours worth.
I did do more, but I don't think those things can be recorded. For example, I helped out a music class for a whole year during my spare. At the time it didn't occur to me that this could count towards my community involvement, all I wanted to do was to meet the new comers of music and help them out with their instruments.
I just looked at the past year's "Additional Information Form" to my most desired program, which is computer science co-op at waterloo. I went through the sheets and realized that I have absolutely nothing to say about extracurricular activities and leadership skills. The web site says that students are
individually selected from the low 80s. my average has always been in the high 80s and last year it was a 90. I don't expect my grades to be any problem, but I am worried sick about my community involvement.
I never thought a lot about community service and the likes because I am just not one of those person. I do help out (such as the music class example) but I have never looked for ways to do so just to pad up my hours and resume. I am not necessarily hunting down scholarship either because I know those are for people who do have the leadership skills and community involvement.
here is the web site for CS @ UW
http://findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca/programs/full_description.php?program=Computer%20Scienceany opinions or advice would be great, I need to figure out what I have to do. Thank you for reading
Bachelor of Computer Science
and definitely not commerce/business/management ________ '14
