<p>Do colleges realize how much time is spent with sports activities?
Most of life is spent at school and playing sports for school.
I play varsity soccer in the fall, basketball and indoor soccer in the winter, softball and club soccer in the spring, go to camps, conditioning, play summer soccer basketball and softball.
I am afraid this will not show a wide variety and tons of EC on my app.
I am also afraid these will not help much, since I am not going to play in college.
Will colleges see that I have kept a 4.0 all of high school while playing three sports every year?
Thanks for any info.</p>
<p>You don't need tons of ECs, you need ECs you are passionate about, that show your involvement. The only thing is it seems odd you are passionate about them if you are not continuing them into college.
It may seem like a lot of work but it is a great way to meet people if you continue your sports (at least one) in college.</p>
<p>Being an athlete certainly does show passion in something - and having tons of EC's is not what schools are really looking for - like padding ones resume - yukkk - but they will be looking at how you spent your high school years - and what/where your passions lie - they realize and are very aware that sports are very time consuming - and yes your 4.0 will be very obvious - don't worry about that cuz there is alot more to the application process that you will be able to show other things about yourself in. Keep in mind that high school sports can also show things like leadership/fund raising, etc..... as well.</p>
<p>Alot of kids do not continue to play sports in college after being very involved in high school - college sports are very time consuming - think year round in one sport for the most part and pretty much owned by the coach, etc...... There are other ways to continue to be involved in the sports that you enjoy - club sports (tho can be very competitive/time consuming as well) and InterMural sports.</p>
<p>I speak from experience on this one - having a 10 letter varsity athlete in high school who did not go on to play at college :) and :( - instead she chose to enjoy her sports in alternate ways and also found new ones and other interests as well and actually found another sport that is now her passion - in which she does participate in college at a club level - competitive thru the season only tho and absolutely loves that idea.</p>
<p>If one does decide to play a college sport - it actually can be considered a hook - depending on which sport and which college you are considering - and could also possibly help financially as well.</p>