<p>Right now, I'm a sophomore and I play baseball for the JV Team, I'm starting shortstop. I've also gotten straight A's both years(9th, 10th) and have taken 1 AP class, AP World History. Next year, I'm planning to take 3 APs(Calc AB, Lit, and Comp Sci). I'm not really sure if I should play baseball next year because of all the workload. Also, I'm not even sure if I want to be on varsity because of the increased pressure and competition.</p>
<p>My question is: Does playing 3 years of baseball + varsity look better than playing 2 year of baseball +JV????? And how much better does it look?</p>
<p>If I join other clubs/associations like Speech and Debate and tutoring other kids, will that make up for me stopping baseball?</p>
<p>P.S: Coaches and other people have told me that I'm really good and I've recieved a couple awards and I've been playng since I was like 8. I'm also Indian so that's pretty unique.</p>
<p>doesn’t look that much better, its wayyy better just to get the grades. BTW, Im a junior who played JV soccer this year with 3 AP’s and I was fine (except for my 89.45% in Calc BC which my teacher refused to round to an A). But next year, Im not doing Varsity because I know the workload was terrible and the hours u get to sleep are very minimal.
Just do a club, and maybe join a basketball club outside of school.</p>
<p>There are schools that are going to want you over someone else just because you participated in varsity athletics. It shows you are more than their typical top applicants that stay home and study after school every day. I’d stay with your sport. Plus, playing baseball is going to be something you remember for the rest of your life. Enjoy your high school experience. Don’t let thinking about college ruin it for you. I’ve been heavily involved in swimming in all of high school (3+ hours of practice everyday) and it has never held me back from involvement in clubs or getting good grades in school. Time management is key.</p>
<p>Right now, I’m starting Shortstop on JV, but if I make Varsity next year, I will probably be coming off the bench. Will this look bad in front of colleges or is it just enough that I made Varsity?</p>
<p>The title of varsity is sufficient. Unless you plan on playing baseball in college, colleges probably don’t need to know what you DID at the varsity level, but just that you were on it.</p>
<p>Ok thanks, the problem is that I don’t really like playing baseball anymore. Are there any any things I could do to make up for me stopping baseball?</p>
<p>I don’t think colleges care whether or not you were varsity or jv, just that you were playing. If I were you, I would still play. Since the sport is in the spring (at least for me it is) you can see how the workload is ahead of time and then base your decision on whether you want to play varisty or jv. If you really enjoy baseball, I would not give it up.</p>
<p>Well, something is either unique or it is not.
What you meant was “pretty unusual.”</p>
<p>But anyway, in case you did not know, two players from India … Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh … were on a TV show called Million Dollar Arm and piched for a little while in the Pirates organization.</p>
<p>From the sounds of that, I’d recommend not continuing with it. The only factors that you should be considering is your enjoyment of life and sanity – and if you don’t want to continue with softball, or you would but you think it would make your life too stressful, then don’t feel bad cutting it out of your schedule. On the flip side, however, if you want to keep doing it for fun, by all means keep doing it. </p>
<p>I personally think it won’t make a tangible difference whether or not you continue to play a sport. As long as you are doing something you like, and you do that something to a high degree of quality, college admissions officers won’t care what it is (this advice goes unless you are a prospect for recruitment, in which case a sport can make a MAJOR difference in your application, but considering you would just be joining varsity your junior year, I would consider this very unlikely). </p>
<p>I faced a similar problem my junior year, only with soccer. I probably could have made the varsity team, but I would have not gotten much playing time and it would have been a major time commitment. Instead, I choose to drop soccer, and decided to devote my time to my passion, politics. Having just emerged from the Class of 2017 admission’s cycle, I think it worked out just fine for me and that dropping soccer was the right choice.</p>