<p>To be honest, I've never really liked extracurriculars (yeah, I'm a major nerd..) I only did them so I can get into a good school to study computer science.</p>
<p>If I quit my ALL of my extracurriculars that I never really liked (like volunteering at the hospital) but still maintain similar or even better grades, will I risk getting rescinded? Once I get accepted to my dream school or at least a decent one (UCLA, Cornell, etc.) I'd rather spend my time studying for the AP exams and getting a head start on my academics.</p>
<p>Once accepted, they aren’t going to check back on your ECs, only your grades. </p>
<p>I don’t even blame you. You’re just playing the game they created. If they build a system of acceptance around kids pretending to be interested in things they aren’t interested in, they deserve what they get.</p>
<p>I couldn’t agree more. Do you want see something weird? Go check out your parents high school year book. My parents went to a big school and there were like 12 clubs – chess club, 4H, French club, science fiction club, math club, and stuff like that. Each club had like 6 to 12 people. The thing that messes with you is realizing that those people joined those clubs because they really liked them. Today, clubs are largely fake. People don’t join clubs because they are interested in the club itself. They’re just playing the game.</p>
<p>If your EC happens to correspond with an academic class that is also being dropped (e.g. debate, PE for varsity sports, etc.) and this difference was not shown on your application, your should mention it. I really can’t see a recession for it, though.</p>
<p>My S will be doing this. He likes water polo and is meh about swim team. Since he doesn’t need the 1/2 credit for 2nd semester swim team to graduate, he’s going to drop it. This is not unusual for seniors, except for the strongest swimmers, which he isn’t.</p>
<p>Quit the clubs. I just quit a club that I was president of, because it was causing me a good amount of stress and it wasn’t worth it. I’m one of those that likes to go home after school and take a good nap. And quite frankly, extracurricular activities can be lied SO easily on a college application. Most colleges don’t even have time to check if you’re really in the club. That being said, do you really think colleges care if you’re in a crap load of clubs? No, to best honest. They know that a lot of kids try to ‘fluff’ their application with it, so they don’t give it as much credit as many people think they do.</p>
<p>Colleges won’t care if you quit the clubs. In fact, more than likely, the colleges that you are accepted to will not have factored ECs into their decisions. Most colleges base admission on grades, scores and – for public schools – state of residence. At most, they use ECs for merit aid consideration. It’s only places like Harvard and Amherst that have so many high stat applicants that the colleges can use ECs to pick and choose from among their outstanding applicant pool. </p>
<p>So… more than likely you were wasting your time by forcing yourself to do ECs you didn’t like. It’s far better to find things you like and to do those. That’s true now, and will also be true in the future.</p>