<p>good or bad idea? I am not going to be captain but i really enjoy being on the team. If i choose the team i wont be able to be valedictorian ill most likely stay in the top 5 students out of 1000 though.</p>
<p>I’d do it. Not having a sport can hurt, but not being valedictorian yet still be in the top five won’t hurt as much.</p>
<p>What sport is it?</p>
<p>its tennis</p>
<p>Why can’t you stay valedictorian while you play tennis? I play varsity tennis (spring) and my grades aren’t any better or worse than during fall or winter.</p>
<p>and the varsity team is very competitive to get into since we have a huge school, so being captain is extremely difficult if you havent been playing since a young age and have private lessons which i havent, even j.v at our school is competitive and difficult to get into</p>
<p>its because tennis team is a class at my school so i have to drop 2-3 ap’s(throughout high school in total) to have room for it.</p>
<p>You absolutely can’t be on the team unless you take the class?</p>
<p>Varsity tennis is a class? Weird.</p>
<p>It’s a class at my school too (kind of). If you’re part of a sports team, you can take it as a class during sixth period for P.E. credits.</p>
<p>so wud do you guys think?</p>
<p>Do it. Trust me, being a member of a successful varsity team is infinitely more rewarding than being a valedictorian.</p>
<p>Well, sports are a bit of a risky investment because they will only pay off if you’re good enough to actually be recruited (I’m assuming you’re aiming for Ivy-caliber schools). This would probably require that you be one of the best tennis players ever. If you pour so much energy and a class period into tennis and nothing comes out of it, then you have just hurt your chances, because you could have spent that time doing other things (e. g. those APs).</p>
<p>Personally, I would say no just because of the sheer number of APs you would have to drop over the course of high school. Unless you have a burning passion and think you can get recruited, tennis would only take away from your time. Even though those colleges do love extracurriculars, the transcript is still key, and sports tend to be kind of a useless extracurricular if you can’t be recruited.</p>
<p>To me, the problem is not whether you’d be valedictorian or not, but whether you’d be giving up the opportunity to take the most rigorous curriculum your school offers. Would you be forgoing only “extra” APs, or does this mean you wouldn’t be able to take APs in core subjects like English, social studies, math and science?</p>
<p>If you like to play Tennis, do it… Not that hard of a choice.</p>
<p>@ OP…I think it’s a matter of context.
How many APs are you taking total? 18 APs? 2-3 doesn’t matter. 5 APs? Drop tennis.
Are you SURE that you can be captain?
Are you SURE that you will be valedictorian without tennis?
Will you still be taking core APs?
Answer these and I think that will give us a chance to make a better assessment.
That being said (in general) I agree with BindersOpen.</p>
<p>Also, are you guys sure that Varsity sports are THAT important if you’re not going to be recruited? I’m asking because I’m not sure if they are or not. I have been a member of the varsity track team for the past two years (freshman and sophomore) and was planning to quit my Junior year due to time constraints, but then resume my senior year. Is it a problem if I quit Junior year? Should I do it Junior year even if it means (possibly) hurting my AP scores? Are varsity sports worth it?</p>
<p>ok heres some additional info</p>
<p>the chances that i will be captain are slim at best, because i began playing at 9th grade</p>
<p>the chances that i will be valedictorian are quite high, about 90%-95% i would say if i dont do varsity tennis, but if i do it, i might still have a 60-80% chance</p>
<p>11th grade schedule with tennis is something like</p>
<p>Ap Chem
Ap Physics C Mech
Ap Calc B.C
Ap Eng Lang
Ap U.S
Tennis team
span 2(0period)</p>
<p>Self studying : physics :E and M
us gov(maybe)</p>
<p>thats for 11th grade</p>
<p>in total amount of ap’s i play to take with tennis team is 14, and self studying 2-3</p>
<p>without tennis team i would take 16-17 ap’s and self study 1-2</p>
<p>yellowdaisies i can answer your question, you do not want to quit your junior year then resume senior year, trust me it dosent look good at all. But also B’s and ap scores less than 4 are also not so good. Check out your application and see how much track is integrated into it. If it is a lot weight the pros and cons, such as you would get 2 B’s, but still stay on track if you might be able to be captain. </p>
<p>in summary: if you quit even for one year i wouldnt bother putting it on your aps
if you begin ec’s you need to finish it out till the end because</p>
<p>for example: if you would have to put one of the following on your app, i would suggest the second</p>
<p>9-10,12th grades track varsity</p>
<p>11-12th grade track varsity</p>
<p>tennis is 6th and 7th period for my school btw, 2-4:30 or maybe 5 depending on your team rank. But my school only has physics education 7th periods.</p>
<p>I think you have plenty of APs, even if you take tennis. I would also suggest that if you spend all of your spare time self-studying for APs rather than focusing on ECs, you might be disappointed in your college results.</p>
<p>well it is because one of my main ec’s is science bowl and im the top scorer in physics, so im going to take the physics b ap exam, and physics C E and m exam(because i already have the knowledge) so thats 2 exams</p>