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When people say stellar ECs (which I see many times across multiple postings throughout the college boards)...what are you trying to communicate?  As far as I know, the EC doesn't really matter as much as the depth with which you pursued the EC.

Is the Banjo Club (if that existed...probably somewhere) not as "stellar' as Model UN?  I assume the captain of the Banjo Club that initiates an [b]instrument drive for disadvantaged kids[/b] is looked at more favorably then just someone who is part of Model UN.
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Uff...yes, yes, yes to all of that! Yes, we all understood the depth and breath of the EC and the formula of it. Win state and national  level championships, create multi-school and multi-city organization for the disadvantaged kids to make ECs available to them - on zoom and in-person during the pandemic.  Even have a website created and social media presence.

God bless these  disadvantaged kids. They are such a feeder population to "enhance" the ECs.  You would think 90% of the DMV population would drop on their knees and pray that the tribe of the poor disadvantaged kids increased many fold!! It seems we are in danger of running out of disadvantaged kids with free time rapidly.   Most are enrolled in free programming, robotics, banjo, piano, debate, math, model UN, science bowl, spelling bee, basket weaving, test prep,  basketball clubs, run by the high achieving students. In a few years there will not remain any achievement gap also if this continues.

I think the only thing that has been not utilized for college admissions is fostering these disadvantaged kids. Maybe in a year or two, we will have high stat and excellent EC students also acting like foster parents to disadvantaged kids?  It is a novel and interesting concept.  Why not use your privilege a bit more??[/quote]

You missed the point of the question…what is a “stellar” EC.  To me, all ECs are equivalent…none are stellar or not.[/quote]

Not equivalent.. ones that require time and talent invested are more valuable than passive ones.    Winning debate tournament is morenvaluable than being a member an honor society.  Playing a sport for 15 hours a week is more valuable than going to baking club for an hour once a week.  [/quote]

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