<p>Admissions will look at your extracurriculars to see how well you’ve taken advantage of the resources available to you. They will look at awards and the number of years of participation to gauge “passion.” In addition, Harvard also has a supplemental essay about extracurriculars, so you will have to chose one activity for the essay so Admissions will have an understanding and appreciation for your most important activity outside of the classroom. That said, my daughter only had two EC’s – theater and cheerleading. My son had three – baseball, soccer (not a recruited athlete) and computer science. Neither of them had any community service of volunteer hours as they were too busy with their other activities. So, depth is far more important than breadth.</p>