<p>Some administration types have told me that they prefer 3 or 4 focused activities. Some have hinted that they like to see a large diversity of activities.</p>
<p>Do you know which one is more accurate?</p>
<p>Most colleges don’t care how many activities you have. The few that do care (and those are top colleges like HPYS) prefer focused activities, not basically inactive membership in a bunch of activities. Depth is more important than breadth.</p>
<p>yea,i think only top 25 schools actually care about your EC.</p>
<p>Yeah, really only very top schools like HYPSMC care about EC’s. In other schools, you’ll be fine if you have great grades/test scores with a rigorous schedule, and terrible EC’s.</p>