<p>I was just wondering what sort of materials I should include in my application that back up and reinforce my ECs.</p>
<p>My main EC is club soccer and I am the captain of my team. I already have plenty recommendations from teachers, would it be overkill to have a rec from a coach as well?</p>
<p>Also I do quite a bit of peer tutoring, specifically for 1 friend. His parents would be glad to write me me a rec but again is this needed?</p>
<p>What sort of things are generally needed to help ECs have the desired effect on the adcoms?</p>
<p>don’t flood them with recs. send what is required and if you really think someone has something important to say about you, then add one more (only if it is allowed). don’t annoy adcoms with too many recs.</p>
<p>You don’t need anything to reinforce your EC’s. Multiple recs are not required nor are they appropriate in most situations. Send at most one extra recommendation; others will likely not even be read.</p>
<p>I have already contacted the coaches at the schools that I have a chance of being recruited for. I plan to try out at at whichever school I attend but I haven’t contacted the coaches yet. For example I am applying to USC but since they recruit heavily from highly ranked teams I didn’t think it would do much good to contact them. I was planning on contacting the coaches after I enroll if I do choose to go there.</p>
<p>My daughter never sent in any supporting evidence of her activities. She did talk to a couple of coaches about running but she was never good enough to be a recruiting priority. She was accepted at a ton of good schools.</p>
<p>^in cases like these, anecdotal evidence doesn’t mean much. admissions are not formulaic, so while your daughter might not have sent any supporting evidence, you’re not sure if she got in through merit of her ECs do you? odds are if she’s going to a top-tier school, and if she’s not “a recruiting priority”, then she’s got all sorts of other non-running stats to back it up. </p>
<p>similarly for the OP, the lesson to bring back is that if you’re not good enough at something to be considered “a recruiting priority”, then i’d advise you not to back it up. such “back ups” are instrumental when the applicant is trying to say “hey look at me, i have something that you want”, not when the applicants go, “ECs? oh, i have some here…”. it all depends on how deeply involved you are in your ECs. </p>
<p>peer tutoring a friend is not considered a huge thing, if you really want to bring it up, use your essay for that purpose, don’t attach anything additional. if your soccer has been a defining part of your life and the life of others (rather important) and your coach can attest to that, i can see how it would help but once again, unless your EC is good enough for you to hate yourself if you don’t send something additional in, i don’t really see a point in emphasizing that you have what 4394394309 people on these forums have.</p>