Extracurricular Question

Applying to College
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I was on the cross country team sophmore and junior year. I made varsity sophmore year but i still wasn’t the best runner. Last year I really didn’t enjoy it. It felt like torture. I want to quit senior year but I’m scared it’ll look bad to colleges (especially since I’m applying to ivy leagues). Would colleges look down on the fact I quit senior year? Would I still put it on my resume?

I still do a bunch of other extracurriculars ( which are more important to me) and if I quit I would take a college evening course instead of running.

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No. Yes.

What you describe is perfectly normal.

3

Only the highly selective colleges care about ECs at all. Regardless, even if you are qualified and on path to Ivy - you should NEVER do an EC for someone else or for a future nameless AdCom - do them for YOU. If you don’t like XCountry - don’t DO XCountry. HTH!

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^ This. Do it for you. Most colleges wouldn’t care that you decided to quit senior year. I think most would assume you just developed other interests, which is okay! Still put it on your resume!