<p>Why the hell are there almost 50 different sports listed, and just one "Science/Math" category? I'm in 6 or so EC's that would count as Science/Math, each of which are completely distinct. Why not just condense all the sports into "Athletics" too?</p>
<p>Some of the fields don't even make sense if the EC isn't a sport. "I intend to participate in college", for high school math/science competitions? Hours and weeks per year only makes sense for sports with well defined seasons and training times. Last I heard, there's no such thing as "math season".</p>
<p>Is this something that can be fixed, or is the common app just like this?</p>
<p>It just doesnt make any sense. That’s the only crappy thing about the commonapp - I thought the activities section would be structured differently… I dont think they’re going to change this any time soon…</p>
<p>Choose ‘Science/Math’ from the drop down. Add your title to ‘Position Held…’ Describe in the ‘Details and Accomplishments’.
Repeat x5.</p>
<p>It is just not possible to cover every possibility in the drop-down list and the members want to have a distinct list to sort apps into. NCAA sports just happen to be popular activities.<shrug></shrug></p>
<p>It’s easier to define sports but even in the sports they are listed as JV/Varsity-our DD has never played JV in her sport, only varsity but she defined that in the honor section. For music she has 2 separate listings for musical instrument because she does marching band and jazz band, both EC’s. Which science/math activities are you in?</p>
<p>I imagine making each sport separate makes it easier to recruit, very important, but it seems that means colleges don’t really care about what kind of science/math you’re doing. Maybe they think Quizbowl, Science Bowl, Science Olympiad, and the science Olympiads (USA_O’s) are all the same thing?</p>
<p>Still, it’s not <em>that</em> hard to categorize math/science activities. I could probably come up with the 15 or so most popular ones in a few minutes, each of them more popular than “JV/Varsity Equestrian”. There are relatively few large competitions out there, and they’re very well defined.</p>
<p>You are making a big deal out of nothing. Select Science/Math, put down Science Olympiad and any honors won/positions held and move on. Our Dd could have about 12 different music categories too. They don’t want a laundry list, they want your MOST IMPORTANT activities as stated in bold in the directions.</p>