I play varsity tennis, but I also do other tennis related activities throughout the year and am not sure if any of them should be put down on college apps.
Varsity tennis- 10 hrs/week(spring)
club tennis league- 2 hrs/week(winter-this is pretty much like high school tennis, all of the teams are made up of high school tennis players except its males and females)
Summer tennis clinics- 8 hrs/week
Volunteering at summer clinics- 4 hrs/week
Weekend clinics- 2 hrs/week(all year)
Private lessons- 0.5 hrs/week(all year)
I definitely wont get recruited for tennis, but for college application purposes, would any of these be worth putting? I dont have any amazing ecs, but I was hoping to put down some of these to show how much I like tennis. I am not great, but I enjoy it. My only other ecs are piano and various clubs(with leadership positions).
You’re making a mistake if you are trying to fill up all the little lines on the application. The “volunteering” might be something, but I’m not getting a warm feeling off the rest.
Tennis is all one EC. Not a list. Is the volunteering also tennis? The it is part of the one EC, tennis.
Combine them into two ECs. One for volunteer work and one for tennis in general.
Tennis is one EC and volunteering at summer clinics is another EC. Clubs with leadership position is a GREAT EC.
Thanks for the replies guys, but how do I write down hrs/week and weeks/year for everything combined. I wanted to split them up not to fill space, but to give an accurate representation of how much time I actually spend on it. If I do the tennis ECs(excluding volunteering) that’s 22.5 hrs/week but all of that is not at the same time. How do I go about filling the hrs and weeks out?
@HSStudent938 You average them!
Your participation in Varsity tennis is school related. Your participation in the Club league is valid. The volunteering is also valid. You don’t count lessons/clinics as extracurriculars. In terms of how to delineate them,I would separate the volunteering from the competitive tennis.
@rubberfall School-related activities (such as varsity sports) are still ECs. ECs are anything that are done outside the classroom.
Tennis lessons and clinics do also count as ECs, but I would include them as part of your single EC of competitive tennis.
So school tennis, club tennis, clinics, and lessons can all be put under competitive tennis? Thank you for your help.
guineagirl96, yes, that was what I meant, but I can see where it may not have been clearer. I meant I would not list his clinics and private lessons as separate activities. Volunteer work can be listed separately for emphasis, instead of lumped with competitive teams if OP thinks it stands strong enough on its own.