What’s an amazing extra-curricular that a home school student can do?
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Question by .: What’s an amazing extra-curricular that a home school student can do?
That will look really good on college apps?
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There are so many choices out there that it will make your head spin!
Colleges seek students who are worldly. Volunteering for a political campaign certainly covers this! Also, anything that has to do with the environment would go over well with liberal universities. Of course, giving back to the community is always a winner, especially if your son or daughter can get some newspaper clippings in there.
Go with something that not only displays these characteristics, but also something that pertains to current events and of course has a focus on what your son or daughter wants to major in.
Habitat for Humanity is a wonderful program for a teen to get involved in. With the economy the way it is, helping needy families get a place to live shows a college he or she is not afraid of rolling up those sleeves while learning a valuable trade – from carpentry/plumbing/electrical work, to engineering, to architecture!
Just a few ideas 😉
Doom Diva
November 5, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Volunteer work
Athletics
Academic teams etc
sha_lyn68
November 5, 2012 at 11:57 pm
Volunteering at a cummunity center with young kids at risk.
Starting your own business, like worm farming. Sell the extra worms and castings. Give free seminars on the benefits of castings and how worms recycle our garbage. Help kids make their own worm farms.
Talk to your local newspaper and ask if you could shadow a reporter for the day or learn the business first hand with a tour. Write down questions to ask afterwards. Write an article, from your point of view, and ask if the newspaper will print it. If this works, you could offer to do some freelance work, free gratis, for the learning experience.
Start a summer camp for kids in your neighborhood, doing a different kind of activity each day. Prepare a survey to hand out ahead of time to each family, and then use this to design activities that appeal to the majority of kids. Learn with them. Prepare a “lesson plan” and balance out an educational subject, with a fun activity each day. I’d consider making the camp only about two hours a day, for five days only. You’ll need a break after that!
Consider starting a Boy Scout chapter in your area. Investigate what it would take. This could be something you could do while you are in school, and when you are out for the summer.
Organize a neighborhood garage sale and investigate what you need to do (license? deposit? fee? to city or township you live in.. Advertising costs? Get families to sign up and split the costs.
Don’t just JOIN something, create, invent, pursue something of your own doing… Shows great initiative, leadership skills, and puts your education to use….
Patricia D
November 6, 2012 at 12:54 am
– volunteer work (at the library, community center, habitat for humanities, etc)
– starting your own business (no matter how small or part time; it could be anything from selling crafts to website design to dog walking– just make a business plan and keep records).
– apprenticeship (find someone in the field you are interested in and offer free services in exchange for the learning opportunity)
– Interesting and unique long-term projects (raising goats or bees or chickens, helping your family build an addition to your home, playing the stock market with imaginary funds, building your own computer or car or greenhouse, etc– check out 4H groups for some great opportunities).
– Community service (organize a charity drive or clean up of a local park)
– Get published (if you like doing something, write about it, try to get an article or two published in a magazine)
MSB
November 6, 2012 at 1:38 am
having a job or taking community college courses
Niccolina B
November 6, 2012 at 2:13 am
What will look good on college applications is focus. So whatever you decide to do-find a theme and stick with it. Going for an elementary ed degree-volunteer at a preschool, the library, job shadow a teacher….
Interested in journalism? volunteer at your local newspaper, submit your photos to the county fair, write and try and get some stories/articles published, start a blog and write regualrly.
Interested in a Law degree? Find a toastmaster or debate team, volunteer at a pro bono law office, job shadow a judge….
Find experiences that follow your theme and you will be way ahead of the other applicants.
Best of Luck!
Jana
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jana
November 6, 2012 at 2:30 am