Fair enough. Be aware that Harvard and many other top schools reject the overwhelming majority of applicants, even those with great credentials and hooks and stelllar essays. The numbers are just daunting.
Being recruited for a sport is a huge, huge advantage, not one to be tossed away lightly.
Either way, good luck to you.
Please don’t make getting into a school with a 5% acceptance rate your main goal. These schools cannot take clost to all of the qualified applicants. Instead your goal should be learning, doing things you enjoy etc. You are best off with ECs you love and care about as opposed to trying to craft that perfect application. In all honesty I don’t think it will matter one bit if you stick with basketball or move on and get involved in other clubs. And if you might be a DIII recruit I agree that can be a big advantage for many wonderful schools. There are tons of amazing colleges and universities out there so you really should expand your horizons.
@ThankYouforHelp I’m aware of the selectivity sadly. The fact that there is a single number percent ( 5% acceptance rate). Tells me that there are people who get in ( obviously ). There are schools out there MUCH harder to get into i.e. Indian Institute of Technology, which compared to Harvard is crazy hard. So I never lose hope. My hope will be lost after I’m straight out rejected, which hopefully won’t happen. But as of now, the glass is half full. And yeah I don’t think I’m good enough to be recruited by Harvard lol, there is already a star on our team in my grade.
@happy1 ^ stuff I said up there. + Yeah I’m not like a HARVARD HARVARD HARVARD kid. It’s just that I plan on applying early to Harvard so I figure I should prepare only for Harvard as of now. There are SO MANY amazing schools I would love to attend besides Harvard: Yale, Princeton, Duke, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Case Western, Northwestern, etc. But I just set one goal and I’m going to strictly aim to accomplish that. After I get rejected, which is most likely going to happen, then I will expand my horizons.
@JLBball5 , yep, he quit soccer completely. Took up another fall sport. His parents were really bummed, but he ended up being quite good at his new sport (–clearly a gifted athlete-) and making a huge impact on the team. Pretty sure that he could never have “tried” the new sport at the college level, so this was the time to do it.