<p>when colleges look at whether an applicant played a sport, do they care whether its JV or Varsity. So far one counselor (Monmouth Univ) said they dont care as long as you played a sport.</p>
<p>Im sure its an added plus if its Varsity....the only way i would play JV is if I won something or got awards because if you dont then they will wonder why you didnt play Varsity.</p>
<p>I matters a lot. I've heard parents say that if your playing a sport for college, and you dont make varsity then its better off just quitting.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that this is coming from asian parents.....(how i hate them). To them life is about sending thier kid to the best college in the world. </p>
<p>I know it matters alot but if you like the sport, keep playing on JV</p>
<p>yea those damn asians lol....but seriously....what about after college?? what do they do then???....Oh grad school right or Phd?</p>
<p>god, doesn't anybody care about Fun anymore? I ran 4 years of cross country, never ran on the varsity squad (though they still gave me a letter) and reaped nothing from it other than good times and a good body. Any awards or honors or Varsity this that you might receive are purely incidental. If you aren't good enough for D-1 (you'll know if you arent) than might as well just stop taking the look towards sports of "it looks good for college."
My freshman year I was begged and begged to join crew because I'm tall and muscular.. I didn't join, as much as the captains insisted that it would get me in to any college I wanted. Well, a friend of mine did, and now hes going to the Naval Academy, even though he's academically entirely not where he should be, all because of crew.
If thats the life you want, take it, its out there, but dont come looking at CC 30 years from now wondering how you got that far and never had any fun.</p>
<p>Related question to sports.</p>
<p>I play football, and in the offseason I spend a lot of time working out. It isn't a club or anything, and I'm not really sure how I can convey the time I've spent weightlifting.</p>
<p>Anyone have a similar situation? Did you just list weightlifting as an EC?</p>
<p>Anyone have a similar situation? Did you just list weightlifting as an EC?</p>
<p>Im a junior and i work out so im going to mention it.</p>
<p>well the reason i don't play varsity is because we have a killer tennis team and unfortunately no one graduated. So basically I'm stuck in JV this year. However next year (senior year), I'm definitely making varsity because there'll be tons of open spots.</p>
<p>hate it when that happens :(</p>
<p>My spot on varsity was taken my junior year when a freshman moved up, he's running calif. state caliber right now. Sucked for me, great for him.
You live, you learn, lets just remember to enjoy both parts</p>
<p>If you are playing a sport because you love to play, then does it really matter if you are JV. Maybe thats what the unversity meant. On your resume it would still show that you loved the sport and played, and that you made the commitment to something and followed through. </p>
<p>If you are playing because you want it to "get you into college", if you are not varsity you are not D1. NO matter how good the varsity players are now, if you are not one you are not d1.</p>
<p>Many players still can play d3, intramural, club......</p>
<p>I agree with TheCity and the point he's trying to make, except for one point. Dont give up just cause your not good enough for D1. If you love the sport and want to play it in college, then top D2 or even D3 schools are better than lower D1 schools. At least in lacrosse. I know limestone (D2) is much better than lower ranked D1 schools such as harvard and yale. </p>
<p>I guess what people are trying to say is that dont play a sport just for college. First of all you'll never get anywhere as good as someone thats playing it because its thier passion. Second, if you weigh too heavily on sports, and injure yourself senior/junior year.....you have no "backup"</p>
<p>Yeah! That's what I did!
Never been hurt before this indoor season, the DIII state title was practically mine, and I tore my hamstring at my league meet. Thankfully, my junior year credentials and early season winter senior year (national ranked in the 200m on January 8th, fell off national leaderboard by February 15th by .18) were enough and I was already on the phone with quite a few colleges before this happened.</p>
<p>One of my best friends, however, was not so lucky. This past summer, he was out playing football on the turf field with us when he went up to make a catch and another one of our runners/high jumpers fell on top of him and came down hard on his leg. He ended up tearing his ACL, MCL, and meniscus. He was a 4:28 miler (if anyone knows anything about track, this is incredible) his junior year and Yale, Brown, Cornell, and Princeton were all sending him applications and telling him that he was in. After the injury, the phone calls stopped and no colleges wanted a runner who may never be back to full strength. He's spent all winter so far recovering and the few times he has run he's looked terrible. He signed in November with Bates College in Maine - still a great school - but not the caliber of where he could have gone. Not to mention it's a DIII school and I know he feels bad about letting a DI chance slip away. He had no back-up besides running. It was his life. Everything KarmaKills is saying is true. He may come back to run this spring with us, but we're not expecting much - he couldn't walk for 5 months. He still ran New Englands on our 4x400 relay team, but ended up running the slowest split for us (53.9) when before the injury he was a consistent 51 second runner.</p>
<p>Don't do your sport unless you love to play. Playing to get into college is the wrong reason for doing it. It's all about the passion.</p>
<p>I am in a similar sticky situation.
On my senior retreat I was playing Four Square(yes I know so elementary school) and my knee completely went out. Turns out I partially dislocated my knee cap and had a pretty bad MCL sprain.
I am a rower and I had to stay out of practice for only about 3 weeks and then I could practice because it is a low impact sport. Another 3 months or so went by and I went to see my orthopedic surgeon again. I couldn't run, jump, go up or down stairs or things like that. I had to go in for an MRI and turns out I have cartilage damage and need what is called a lateral release because my knee cap is pulled too high on my knee. These both can be solved with Arthroscopy.
Now getting to the imminent problem. I can still row and am actually at my fastest right now but I am plauged with the fact that I am limited in everyday activities. This upcoming summer I am trying to get into a National Selection Camp for rowing because my times are up there which will only push back when I can have the surgery. The later I have the surgery however the later I will be able to row in college making it possibly unlikely to make the top boat my freshman year. I just stuck wondering should I suffer one more year with my annoying injury, should I risk the surgery as soon as my season is over and get out of the selection camp, or should I go to Selection Camp and get the surgery later because selection camp would be an amazing experience.
The odd thing is that my times before my injury were not exceptional and now they are National Level, it is because of my injury or in spite of my injury.</p>
<p>wow sorry to hear about that laurenemma. id suggest doing the selection camp thing, though. sounds like a great opportunity.
anyway i play rugby and im gonna start track&field this week, on the school team, are these good sports or would US colleges not care?
i guess i could start hockey, but i dont know where to go in switzerland for that.
big big dilemma.
that and i need to get my chemistry maths and economics grades up to 5/7 within three months or my chances for top colleges are screwed. but thats another story.
oh and does electric guitar help?
cheerio</p>
<p>i'm not by any means looking to get into college with my sport. All I want is that it looks like a strong commitment type of part on my application. I'm applying to all direct med programs (in case you wanted to know) so I could care less about which sport division school i get into. I'm not going to play college tennis, i'm gonna play for fun.</p>