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How Ivy League schools look at your high school extracurriculars

A typical Ivy League school like Yale will look at the following things:
1) Leadership
Was the student an officer of the club? Did he/she manage people, lead and organize events? Was he/she elected to increasingly more prominent positions, like president?
Leadership is an important characteristic of the strongest applicants to the best universities.
What should you take away?
-Run [...]

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3 secrets of extracurriculars to get into Harvard and Stanford

Extracurricular accomplishments are difficult to score properly, since they’re so diverse and varied by school.
There are obvious organizations and competitions - for instance, Key Club and Science Olympiad.
For the rest, it’s all qualitative and subjective. That’s why you need to try your best at every club and activity, so your success comes through no matter [...]

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