ECs - the most unusual or memorable ones
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Anonymous
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What are the most unusual or memorable ECs you've heard about this year?
I have a senior and an 8th grader - so it's really just curiosity or nosiness at this point. |
Anonymous
Nothing is unique including patents, research papers publications etc. They have to do something creative out of the opportunities they have |
Anonymous
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Not in this year. There was a student who went on a journey of being a sailor. Then "wrote" a book about that experience, published. Got in stanford.
Risky, but worked. |
Anonymous
omg. sounds amazingly fascinating. like the kind of person you'd love to talk to. |
Anonymous
Keep in mind that it's difficult to manufacture this. Minors can never being allowed to be a sailor, it means that the family has resource to make this happen, either they own a company or have connections that take the kid. |
Anonymous
Exactly. But so much independence and drive, assuming the kid actually has the sailing skills. How long was the journey? |
Anonymous
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I started a running list of memorable ECs (from this site's old posts and what I hear from our school community or see on reddit). See below. Please add on!
STEM RELATED Working as a car mechanic; Restoring pinball machines or vintage arcade games; Getting licensed as a HAM radio operator; Clock repair/watchmaking; Working with a glassblower or in a scientific glassware repair shop; Telescope making - esp if interested in astronomy; and Working on model trains (modernization and automation). CS RELATED business founder for computer repair "Hobby Engineering" (independent projects) HUMANITIES RELATED Letterpress printing and bookbinding Cartography and mapmaking Puppetry and marionette making OUTDOOR HOBBIES fishing, rock climbing, archery OTHER HOBBIES: origami, coin collecting, birdwatching, crocheting, blacksmithing, woodworking, master reseller on FB marketplace PT JOBS: car mechanic oil repair/oil change mechanic seamstress butchering makeup artist obituary writer for local small-town paper |
Anonymous
Believe it's a summer long. Things I can think of ... for example, a month-long deep sea exploration. Without resources, it's difficult to do it. Being truly unique comes with a price tag, often times. |
Anonymous
This is like a Christopher Guest movie |
Anonymous
| I mean you can bet everyone would know your kid as the obituary writer if that was their PT job/EC..... |
Anonymous
In our school kids with these niche ECs (fabricating a car engine, etc.) did not get into T20 schools. Most of them went to state schools. Car mechanics, for example, was cool when someone first uses it as EC. Once it's known and replicated, a dime a dozen. If your kids are truly interested in these and enjoy doing it, go ahead. |
Anonymous
I know 2 car mechanics in my non-DMV city this year. I don't know if its that common, or maybe not in our area? One ED into Northwestern. One REA into Yale. Have heard the manual labor kind of ECs are the best ones to do nowadays. |
Anonymous
| How exactly do you start doing "cartography" or mapmaking as an EC? In a class at a college? |
Anonymous
Manual labor has been popular for many years. Clique. Have to be a truly unique manual labor. |
Anonymous
If you are in the midwest on the country side, have family with high school grads and you do something in stem.....that makes it memorable for the AOs. No kid from even TJ got into CEE RSI program this year so nothing unique that they haven't seen already. Very hard being in DC area |