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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the bios on Reddit/collegeresults and A2C of linguistics majors.

They do a ton of [b]ECs with languages[/b]. A ton. Are you doing that?[/quote]

like what?[/quote]
Here’s a good one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/s/exo45zJDHQ

Other common ones are below. This isn’t rocket science people.

Awards:  National linguistics Olympiad

ECs:
1. founder and president of school linguistics club & team, school honored club and national representative etc
2. co-founder of Tolkien club (literature, linguistics, arts and such)
3. Leiden Summer School in Language and Linguistics (rarely have high schoolers)
4. city-wide linguistics competition director
5. Translator/tutor for volunteering services [/quote]

How common are these types of ECs (from the reddit link)?[/quote]
Sorry meant to paste.

ECs

ELL (English language learning) director at immigration org in my city. Ran the ELL department, tutored ELL students of all ages, looked over volunteers and students each week. There is a lot I did with this and this was a major part of my four years in high school.

Students and later class representative as part of Spain's Ministry of Education International Immersion program. Spanish language and culture classes run by Spanish diplomats, as well as some fun cultural immersion activities (like presenting on a Spanish news channel + meeting some big figures in Spain's government!). I graduated from the program the summer of my junior year.

Linguistics club president! Member sophomore and junior year and then ran it senior year. Super fun club to geek out about languages :)

NSLI-Y virtual Turkish program. Somewhat selective US State Department program to learn critical languages for US foreign policy. I recommend this a million times over to anyone who loves foreign languages - 10 week course and I even got some Turkish sweets sent in the mail.

Part-time job at tutoring company. Pretty standard high school job that I held for most of junior and senior year.

English teacher at a sleep-away camp in Spain! Two week camp where I was one of the camp counselors in charge of the English learning activities. A lot of fun but definitely a test to how easily I can handle loud 5-11 year olds for hours at a time...

Native American language revitalization project! I was an intern at a Native American org and worked on documentation research for Apache and Lakota language families and even helped compile a children’s book in Lakota!

GeoBee organizer for my town's middle school. Covid led NatGeo to shut down their GeoBee which was a huge bummer because I loved that so much growing up, so a few friends and I decided to set up the geo bee at our school again and as a geography lover it was a lot of fun

Warehouse associate! I worked as a warehouse associate over the summer after my junior year which was definitely interesting and I learned a lot about packaging/deliveries/returns/shipping.

Varsity track and field. I ran track in the summer and did sprinting and jumping events. I wasn't too crazy at it but I decided at the last minute to cram it on this list!

Awards:

Congratulatory citation from my state's Congress. Signed by governor + a few state reps and it was awarded due to my first place selection in an essay contest that led to a 3k donation to org in EC#1 on my behalf!

Certificate of completion of course in EC#2 along with a CEFR C1 distinction in Spanish (awarded due to same course)

Volunteer award from town volunteer foundation for work with EC#1 org. One youth recipient per year.

Seal of biliteracy in Spanish + French as well as NSLIY certificate of completion for Turkish course.

English department award + book award (both from school)[/quote]

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