<p>Cottontree, your posts make me sad. Having read your other threads on singing and fencing, I think you need to stop evaluating every activity for your son in terms of how it may or may not affect admission to college. It’s absurd to be thinking about college admission for an 11 year old who, I assure you, will be a different person with different interests by the time he’s 16. The choice of his activities should be made on the basis of what interests him, not what college it might get him into someday. The very fact that you are posting on College Confidential about a kid this age tells me that you have your priorities sadly askew. For at least the next three years, abandon CC, stop thinking about college, and don’t discuss college with your son. Let him enjoy his childhood and support his interests regardless of whether colleges will give darn about them. At that age my son was crazed over Star Wars figurines. I didn’t post on CC to find out if this was a worthy endeavor for the college bound. It was more important than that–it was fun.</p>