No Sport (Cross Country) Senior Year

Applying to College
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<p>I know...I shouldn't do things just because they contribute to my college application. During freshman year, I truly did enjoy cross country, and I did decently (especially one race...good memories!). It was even fun sophomore year. But then in junior year, the people who I actually talked to on the team left, and my running suffered. Now it's senior year, and I really have no desire to commit myself to running after school every day, racing, and trying to do my homework. I'm probably not going to be on varsity, and there is no way I would ever be recruited for my running.</p>

<p>Just how detrimental would it be not to run senior year?</p>

<p>(I'm looking at top-ish engineering schools, if that helps.)</p>

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<p>do another sport, seriously</p>

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<p>Well, the problem is I don’t even want to do a sport. I’d rather just do another extracurricular activity.</p>

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<p>I’d say do another extracurricular. It’s not like you’re being recruited, so not doing the sport isn’t that big of a deal. </p>

<p>If a college interviewer asks you why you quit (which I don’t think they will), you could tell them that you simply couldn’t balance the practice time and homework time (since you mentioned it), instead of just saying that you quit because you didn’t want to do it anymore.</p>