<p>Hey Guys,</p>
<p>I am wondering how colleges view sports in high school. I played no sports and did no extra circulars -- except for during the summer, where I did a football summer camp, volunteered at a hospital (about 100 hrs), and took a geometry class so I could get ahead in math -- my freshman year in high school. </p>
<p>My sophomore year I was the class president, went to state in DECA, played football, and kept pretty decent grades in accelerated/honors classes (both soph. and freshman year). </p>
<p>Now it is my junior year, and over the summer I made a website for the non-profit organization that I am starting, which will benefit children with Autism in the impoverished country that I am from. As well as added about 50-60 volunteer hours to my r</p>
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<p>Overall, your ECs look ok. Don’t worry about the lack of athletics.</p>
<p>Generally, unless you are planning on being recruited, sports don’t matter a whole lot. You don’t NEED to have a sport to have a well-balanced application. If you play one, great! But there’s no “penalty” for not playing a sport, if that’s what you’re thinking.</p>
<p>Also, if you don’t care about wrestling - for the love of god, don’t do it. You are going to hate your life. Don’t get me wrong, if you have a passion and love for the sport, it’ll be a blast and can be extremely rewarding, but if you’re just half-assing it because you don’t really care about it, it’s going to be two to three months of hell for you - in that case you might want to pick a different sport (although I guess you can say that about any sport, I’d say it applies especially so to a sport where you’re cutting weight and getting beat up and thrown around daily).</p>
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<p>Agree. There are two main purposes the colleges care about ECs. First, the students with these varied interests in sports, music, art, social activism, etc. make the college environment more interesting for all. Second, ECs that require a significant time commitment show that you have the time reserve to do very well academically and have plenty of time to spare not spent studying. Unless you are a stand-out and recruitable athlete, sports offer no more value on the application than any other time consuming EC.</p>