<p>What are the advantages of playing a varsity sport during college? How much time do they take up compared to other EC's like clubs? Does grad school really care if you played sports during college? Would it be better to play a club sport?</p>
<p>What sport?</p>
<p>I saw from another post that you are going to Northeastern. Which I believe is D1 school. I don't know which sport you are talking about, but at D1 level the commitment is huge. Ther are pracitces every day, games at all times. Socail life suffers.</p>
<p>Many times the athletes are recruited (d1), and it is hard to get a walkon position (you really have to be good).</p>
<p>Also at the college varsity level you should no longer be playing becuase it looks good on your application. You should be playing a sport for the love of the game.</p>
<p>The intensity at this level is very different from what you have probably played before. The advantage is for those who love their sport and can't see doing anything else.</p>
<p>If you are looking to keep in shape, and continue with your sport you are probably better off with intramurals. They are less competitve and take up less of your time. They also leave you room for other activities, parties, socializing.</p>
<p>Well I was hoping a varsity sport would look good on my resume. Maybe varsity track, tennis, or basketball. Is it possible to get a really good GPA, find some internships, participate in honors clubs, and play a varsity sport? How important is all this EC's compared to during high school?</p>
<p>I dont think you would be able to do all that and still keep up your gpa, but I don't know you so can't say for sure. But varsity basketball is a big time commitment, practices can be early am or later afternoon. I would think it would be hard to get an internship w/ those kind of hours.</p>
<p>I would think that you could play intramural and show commitment, and then have an intership... that might help</p>
<p>but how would that look to employers as opposed to an internship, part time job, or an honors club? do they want people who did varsity sports or somebody who interned?</p>
<p>At northeastern you'd probably be interning anyway. I'm going there and doing a varsity sport. I know that my sport has mandatory study halls for freshman to help to keep up the GPA. The good thing about Northeastnern's 5-year program though is that you have a mandatory year off from your sport that can be study-abroad or interning or pursuing other interests, just because of eligibility stuff. In all honesty, though, employers probably won't care much about the sport unless you're looking at a field involving the sport.</p>
<p>unless there is some direct correlation to your activities in a sport and the job for which you are interviewing; I can't imagine any employer caring at all.
play sports in college if that is something you are interested in doing; but don't do it as a checklist for a resume.</p>
<p>damn, i would thought that employers cared since college admissions care if you play sports and volunteer alot during high school. but since the field i'm entering has nothing to do with varsity basketball its not worth it.</p>
<p>Nothing at all like college admissions, they just worry about how well you'll do the job.</p>
<p>How do they actually judge how well you do on the job?</p>
<p>Interviews, experience, recs, college transcript, though that only carries weight with your first job I think... Playing a sport shows you to be an involved person that would add to the campus community (why colleges like it) but doesn't really benefit your ability to work well. Are you doing coop? That's supposed to help...</p>
<p>For your resume, do you just have to put work experience that is relevant to the job your applying for?</p>
<p>What if you didn't have any relevant work experience but worked in a food service business? Would putting that on your resume help you?</p>