Extracurricular Activities: Do they need to be related to my major?

Applying to College
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I am starting high school next year and looking to be admitted into a top ten finance school afterwards. I already have a rigorous and useful set of classes laid out, but, as most of you know, that is not all that matters. Almost all prestigious colleges want to see that the student held leadership positions in extracurricular activities to show that the student is not only a leader, but well-rounded, good at time managing, etc. Here are the extracurriculars I am planning on taking throughout high school.

9th and 10th Grade:
Golf
Debate
Tennis

11th and 12th Grade:
Golf
Debate
Tennis
National Honor Society

I have read that many top finance schools, especially Warton, want an extracurricular in finance. The only one my high school offers that is related to finance is Stock Market Club. To be in that, I will have to delete one of the other activities. I am not willing to start my own extracurricular

Would most of the top finance schools let me slide in without a finance extracurricular?

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Of course, it depends on what your other passions are and how you developed them. If you’re top ranked in golf/debate/tennis, it would more than make up for it.

3

Top schools like Wharton don’t need you an EC in finance – what ECs are their for kids in ACTUAL finance? They want you to be intellectual and driven. They don’t need you to even HAVE a major – much less a slate of ECs devoted to one. My very successful kid was an athlete – left no time for other majors. Yet she was accepted in several top Cmptr Engineering schools. She never did a single Compsci or comp engineering EC besides moderate a creative writing website.