<p>I play violin excessively, and I wonder if top universities recruit musicians. Do they even want musicians? And then I thought about sports. I am the founder and president of my high school's archery club, but again, do universities recruit archery athletes? I feel like my interests are kind of useless. One of my friends got recruited to Princeton for crew, something really common and boring. When I was a young freshman, I read that Ivies like unique people and people who follow their interest, but I'm beginning to wonder if I have bogus interests.</p>
<p>You are to my knowledge not going to get recruited for viollin, but it does look good to have for your resume. As for the archery it is possible, but to my knowledge very few schools have archery to even have the need to recruit you.</p>
<p>UVA is a school that does want to recruit musicians as they would athletes.</p>
<p>They may recruit a musician, if they’re top-notch, like national orchestra, Carnegie hall or something equally impressive. On top of that you have to remember quite a bit of Ivy applicants seem to be musicians, so it’s not that rare. Next, for archery, its too uncommon, and as a result no-one is going to be recruited… However it does look impressive that you founded a club and possibly competed with other schools.</p>