Fine line between "too little" and "too much"

Applying to College
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<p>I'm having a bit of a dilemma in my college applications. I am applying to the following schools:
- Florida State
- UFlorida
- Wake Forest
- Vanderbilt</p>

<p>During my high school career, I mainly participated in debate. I spent most of my time preparing for debate competitions, competing, etc. I have local, regional, state, and national recognition, and I was president/team captain for two years. I also participated in debate-related community service activities. During my junior year, I participated in the tennis team and didn't have the same level of success as in debate, but I did win "Most Dedicated". Our school had a few other ECs of worth, like robotics team, but I wasn't interested. </p>

<p>I am also a member of Spanish Honor Society and National Honor Society, but as many of you probably know, at most schools, neither society is prestigious/mentally challenging/time consuming. </p>

<p>The dilemma that I am facing is this: I know many students list every single award they have ever earned, like "History Student of the Week- Jan 2004" etc. If I choose to only highlight the activities which I truly feel are of worth, i.e., debate/tennis, will I look like an honest, mature student who knows that colleges want to see the most important stuff, or will I look like I just don't have that many ECs?</p>

<p>I know I might be overthinking this. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!</p>

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<p>Well, the maximum is 7 activities on the EC list, so there you go. Only list the most important awards that you think deserve to be placed in your application.</p>

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<p>you can place more info in the additional info part; but they only limit it for a reason. There really isn’t much space to list absolutely everything one has done, so in the end one would end up choosing the most important things and elaborating on those.</p>