I have heard it from almost any common college advice. Find your “passion” and reflect that on my ECs.
The problem is, I don’t have one specific “passion”. I love math, I love writing, I love science, I love the clubs I’m in (a variety of different types), I love the sport I play. But should I start to narrow down, and mainly focus on one or two specific things?
It seems to depend on the school, but what you’re doing now seems to be better than what I did (5/10 activities on my common app/basically over half my resume is violin related and I got deferred from Princeton and didn’t advance in several scholarships)
But isn’t having the 5/10 violin activities considered a positive thing? It shows that you are dedicated and truly invested to that hobby.
Keep in mind I’m using a few anecdotal examples…I’ll have to see how things turn out for me RD and for the one or two remaining scholarships I’m trying for, but the one girl who got in early (MIT) out of 10+ kids who applied early to top-tier colleges from my school was well-rounded - Indian classical dance, class president, robotics, science fair, a sport, etc
Ok thanks for the help @hopefulperson
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Colleges do want kids that are interested in all those academic areas. They don’t want or require you to specialize in high school. Fact is that students who go to selective colleges are good all around. However I do think it can help to focus on a couple of areas of extracurricular interest to excel at and get deeply involved in, display leadership in and make a difference in. This doesn’t mean to let up on your overall academics which is the more important thing. And some sports take up a lot of time, so you can look only during the off season to do other things.