<p>Hi, everyone!
I have joined a sport team but I never play any official match and game for the school, so there is no match score record on the public profile in the internet. If I plan to apply some ivy league schools, should I write my participation in the team on the Extra Curricular activity? Or this will not help at all or even look bad on my overall impression?
Thank you!</p>
<p>If you’re on the team, you’re on the team. List it. Nobody is going to scour the internet to check up on a claim such as this.</p>
<p>Thanks for your advice!</p>
<p>put it down if it makes you feel better. Simply being on a team is not the kind of EC that is going to impress the admissions officers at the top schools. </p>
<p>The question about impressive ECs comes up regularly on the forum. There is a thread with several posts by Northstarmom, a Ivy alum interviewer, about what constitutes impressive ECs from the point of view of the most selective colleges. Take a look thru the thread and you can decide how you stack up. The post is at <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/210497-those-ecs-weak-so-what-s-good.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/210497-those-ecs-weak-so-what-s-good.html</a></p>
<p>As you will see from that link, at the most selective colleges they are looking for depth more than just participation. Stanford, for example, says
Joining a sport team doesn’t sound like it reaches the level of what they look for, IMHO.</p>