How important are extracurricular activites in admissions decisions?

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<p>It’s perfectly valid to list study abroad with a date indicating it’s coming up in the near future. Since it’s not something you can do on a whim, we’ll assume you have your host family all set up and ticket ready to go. That’s close enough. They can also easily check on whether you’re there while they process your application.</p>

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<p>According to a 2011 NACAC Admissions Trends Survey:
•5.0% of colleges say that extracurriculars are of considerable importance.
•43.1% of colleges say that extracurriculars are of moderate importance.
•38.1% of colleges say that extracurriculars are of limited importance.
•13.8% of colleges say that extracurriculars are of no importance.</p>

<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/studentinfo/articles/Pages/Factors-in-the-Admission-Decision.aspx”>http://www.nacacnet.org/studentinfo/articles/Pages/Factors-in-the-Admission-Decision.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>ECs are not really important for the majority of schools. Most schools are not very selective. Ones that have less than a 75% acceptance rate. Admission to these schools are more based on objective data.</p>

<p>subjective attributes like ECs only come into play when schools need to differentiate between high-scoring applicants.</p>