<p>If I don't do any clubs but instead do sports would my chances of getting accepted in the top 75 universities go down ? Or it doesn't matter ? Do university really care about clubs ?</p>
<p>They do, it shows how involved you are in extracurricular activities, and if you are then it shows that you are more well rounded student. Most colleges look at you holistically, so they do not just care about your grades and scores they also care about your activities and essays. I think that sports do count as clubs though so you should be fine.</p>
<p>if you can’t find a single club of interest outside of sports, you better be an Olympic-level athlete, otherwise you’ll just seem like an athlete with blinders (and that’s not very good).
So, find a club you like and participate. If you don’t find a club you like, create one and get others to join it, it’s even more impressive and it’ll teach you lots of new skills too. :)</p>
<p>I know it can be tricky when you play school sports, even trickier if you’re involved with a club/travel team, to get involved in other activities in a meaningful way. For his first two years, my DS played a sport all three season - Fall, Winter and Spring. The last two years just Fall and Winter. He was by no means Olympic level, but with a 2-3 hour practice every day after school and games/meets on weekends it definately wasn’t for lack of interest or intent that he didn’t get more involved with other things. He did his best to make up for it in other ways. He’d participate in more short-term school service activities that had a clear start-end date. Midnight run (bringing food to homeless folks), various cancer walks/runs, various tragedy-response actions like for Superstorm Sandy. These were things that he was able to “pop” in and out of and not ruffle feathers about not being able to contribute all year. There arent many clubs that are OK with a kid signing up and saying BTW I’m gonna be pretty useless until the beginning of March but after that I’ll help out.</p>