Importance Of Extracurricular Activities

In the past two years I have been involved in many extracurricular activities that have helped develop great skills such as communication skills and have become greatly involved in my community. For example, I am in many community service clubs such as Key Club, Renaissance, and Sobobans. These clubs have been involved with many things in the community such as helping at the California Theatre, helping at Salvation Army, and Renaissance in Renaissance we are currently involved in a service project that will benefit the community. In addition I volunteer at Salvation Army which deals with helping the poor and homeless people in our community and in Big Brothers, Big Sisters. Big Brothers, Big Sisters is a great volunteer program because it allows young adults to teach and mentor the young children in our community. Lastly, during my junior year in high

Due to my determination I was able to go from being rank twenty four my freshman year to rank ten my junior year. I have done exceptionally well through my high school years including getting straight A’s my sophomore year. I have also challenged myself by taking a college course my junior year at Cal State San Bernardino. The class I took was CSU Chem 215/216. In addition, I have taken honors and AP classes through all my high school years and have passed all the AP exams I have taken. Taking many AP and honor classes can be difficult but I have gone to Saturday school and have attended many study groups. Saturday school has been something that I have been attending since freshman year and it has helped me study for test and get help on things I did not understand. My grades in high school do reflect my academic ability and potential because I have always pushed myself to do the best that I can. Through all of high school I have pushed myself to take classes that would challenge me more like AP, honors, and college