So I’m a senior this year and I have only been in 1 club one year and this year I will also be in 1 club only (It’s a different club) and I’m getting paranoid that this will look terrible on college applications.
I have done Cross Country all 4 years, Track will be all 4 years this spring, and have been varsity on cross country for 3 of those 4 years. This has left me little to no time for clubs, especially considering most clubs at my school hold meetings after school, which is when practice is.
I have managed to do well academically (6 APs, ACT: 34, GPA: 3.9 UW/4.0W), so do you think that since sports tend to be more time consuming than clubs, colleges will think of my ECs as not too bad?
There’s so many myths held out there. I was just at a college presentation and a student asked if not having TWO sports was going to disadvantage her eventual college apps.
Remember: admissions officers of selective schools act rationally, in general. They are looking for excellence. Excellence manifests itself in many ways.
I wouldn’t say it looks “terrible” but it won’t standout either imo. Plenty of kids can do 2 or more varsity sports as well as clubs. It’s part of the process of time management.
You will have two sports and indicate on commonapp or coalition app how much time you spend on them, and you will include the club(s) you’re a part of. Adcoms say over and over that they’re not looking for quantity, but quality: they don’t want 10 EC’s, they want leadership in a couple.
at most colleges ECs are given little or no weight. You can tell by looking at what they say in their Common Data Set report. You have started 3 threads asking about your chances at UGA, so my guess is that’s your top choice They say “considered” in their CDS, not “important” or “very important” or “not considered” so what you’ve done is going to be more than enough to keep you in the running.
Since you are a senior your best bet is to play up the things you have done and continue to do and not to focus on what you haven’t done. Don’t worry about things you can’t change.
They say “considered” in their CDS, not “important” or “very important” or “not considered” so what you’ve done is going to be more than enough to keep you in the running.