<p>When colleges say they look for "passion" in the extra-curricular activity, would it count if you do a club/sport for two to three years but it wasn't consecutive? Like I did running freshman, sophmore, and will do it senior. I also volunteered at my church sophmore and will probably do it senior... Will this be ok for prestigious colleges? </p>
<p>Passion is qualitative. Doing something for a long time helps substantiate the claim that you have a passion for it, but “passion” isn’t a requirement you fulfill by doing something for such-and-such number of years. </p>
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Have you accomplished anything notable in these activities, or are you just a participant?</p>
<p>So your saying that as long as I do something for a number of years regardless of whether I stop in the middle, it is showing “passion” and that it is fine for college? </p>
<p>Showing passion means actually having it, or at least appearing to. It’s not about doing something for a long time, although that’s probably necessary. It’s about specializing in something, being really dedicated to it and accomplished in it. </p>
<p>Would it be ok if I didn’t really get a superb award in the clubs but I still enjoyed being a “participant”?</p>
<p>Just being a participant isn’t as good as actually accomplishing something. You’ll be competing against people who did a lot more than just participate.</p>
<p>Committment* I agree with the posters above. Show your passion. </p>
<p>Does a leadership position as president in a 25-person team that won a first-place regional award count as a means of showing “passion”? What I mean is, will colleges recognize leadership of a successful competitive club any more than of a club that was pretty passive? </p>
<p>Lol. DO NOT QUIT. You need to continue all 4 years and win some awards along the way. Just being a member shows that you’re willing to show up to the practices and meets. I’d say that you’d have to be decent at worst for selective colleges to look at you. It also wouldn’t hurt to be a captain. And for church continue 4 years as well. You quit 1 year and then came back that’s NOT commitment. Look at result threads for RD or ED to see the EC’s people getting accepted into selective colleges have.</p>