<p>what's so great about varsity letters -- doesn't everyone get them who is in varsity at their school? why mention them?</p>
<p>to seperate yourself from nerdy, unathletic kids</p>
<p>righht, but where would you include such information</p>
<p>at my school at least you only get the varsity letters for playing in all the games. there's a specific amount of time you have to play but i don't know how much exactly.
ahh, the benefits of a small school - lots of playing time.</p>
<p>i put in my varisty letters in the space to the side of the ECS - where it usually says "positions held, honors awarded." everyone at my school does it like that.</p>
<p>what do you write in the space? just like Football "Varsity Letter"</p>
<p>If you write down Varsity Football, I don't think you have to put that you received the letter in the space. I run and swim and I didn't have enough room to put down awards/all-conference/all-tournament honors/etc. as well as that I received a letter. I assumed adm. officers would assume the letter because I wrote "Varsity" before my sports.</p>
<p>not everyone gets them here. Every sport has a different qualification, and you also get varsity letters for senior choir (hardest of the three to get into) and academics, but no one takes those seriously. :)</p>
<p>Sports that run individual events (wrestling, track & field, etc.) often lump frosh/soph/jv and varsity together for practice and then divide them up for competitions based on relative strength as measured against the competition as well as your own teammates. You might be high jumping in the frosh/soph event at one meet and in the varsity event at another. Often you have to accumulate a minimum number of varsity points in competitions in order to get a varsity letter. So I would put the letters down, they do mean something.</p>
<p>A varsity letter denotes a certain level of achievement in that sport, which is one of the ECs on the app. Getting a varsity letter probably won't by itself get you admitted, but it's worth a mention. Getting one is better than failing to get one.</p>
<p>My school's varsity letter program is very skewed. In our four years of high school, we need to accumulate at least 100 points through participation in sports or clubs. So pretty much, people can not play any sports and still receive a varsity letter.</p>