<p>I have little to none due to parents always working and me
Staying home to watch for my brother.</p>
<p>But would this is an EC?</p>
<p>I don't like being in a competive sport but I like to devote a lot in sports for example I play basketball probably everyday at the gym or at home.</p>
<p>Sorry for grammar miuses I used IPoD Touch in rush</p>
<p>I think for me not being involved in hs basketball has actually made me more fit and have as much time to play. I’m a normal social guy that hang with the jocks but just don’t play hs sports but play with my people outside at gym.</p>
<p>I just hope they actually take that into consideration</p>
<p>schools: U of Minnesota Twin cities, saint olaf, other poly sci schools in Midwest</p>
<p>kenny, make sure you explain why you don’t have many ECs. don’t just skim over your family situation, make it clear.</p>
<p>“I have little to none due to parents always working and me
Staying home to watch for my brother.”</p>
<p>The admissions officers at the relatively few colleges that consider ECs for admission (and those are places like HPY, which have such an overabundance fo high stat applicants that the colleges can afford to pick and choose from among those the ones that will most contribute to an active, diverse campus) consider things like what you’re doing like very strong ECs. Supervising younger siblings requires more responsibility, creativity, and maturity than do most ECs.</p>
<p>You have nothing to apologize for. Include your responsibilities for your siblings in the EC section of your app. Also consider writing an essay about that.</p>
<p>Merit scholarship committees also would be impressed by what you’re doing.</p>
<p>Thanks Northstarmom I never knew those were consider strong EC. Thanks</p>
<p>But isn’t taking care off siblings a everyday thing that people does?</p>
<p>No, most college-bound students aren’t responsible for taking care of their siblings after school while their parents work. They may not have siblings or their siblings may have paid babysitters or are involved in ECs after school or that parents or paid transporters get them to. Their siblings also may be older then them or only a year younger than they are, so supervision isn’t required.</p>
<p>That’s why so many students on CC have time for extensive extracurriculars. My sons are four years apart in age and most of the time during school days, my kids were involved in ECs or other activities, so my older S was not responsible for taking care of his younger brother. </p>
<p>There’s a big difference between being occasionally responsible for siblings when one’s parents have a night out and being responsible for siblings 5 or more afternoons/evenings a week while your parents work. </p>
<p>If you have to do things like: pick up your siblings from school, supervise chores, homework, be responsible for feeding them and getting them ready for bed, these are far more responsibilities than are routine for high school students to do. Even if you’re “just” supervising them for 3 hours a day – from when they get out of school until dinner time – that’s a big responsibility. The challenges you face – even handling sibling squabbles or figuring out how to also get your homework done while taking care of them – could be good subjects for college essays.</p>