<p>I don’t assume students with a lot of activities are “gunners”. Some kids go to smaller schools where they are encouraged to do a lot of things. Some have an energizer bunny type personality, and love to be on the go all the time. I wouldn’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Both of my kids had more than 10 ECs, and had very good admissions results. Be sure you list them in true order of importance to you. If some are related (say a lot of soccer related activities), create an EC called Soccer and put “See additional information section” in the comment. Then in the Add’l Info section, put a header for Soccer and bullet out your activities and achievements. They only left off items that they did just for 1st two years of high school, had no major individual and team accomplishments, and did not contribute to the narrative of the application.</p>