First question, do you have anything you do outside of school that you might not be thinking of as an EC? Example, one of my kids collected insects. It wasn’t a school activity, but she listed it as an EC and talked about it in essays. Also, what have you been doing in summers? Any camps, work, volunteering?
Not gonna lie, it will hurt you for the very top schools, unless you are good enough to be recruited. A few thoughts:
- if you are good enough to help a D3 team, it could help you there. I don't know if they have swim teams, but LACs like Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, etc are worth looking at. Also, I think U of Chicago is D3 if they have a swim team.
- I think you are quite late in the recruiting process if you want to pursue those. The Athletic forum out here can help if you have questions about that, though.
- You need to make sure you have some matches & safeties on your list no matter what your parents think. Your GC might be able to talk some sense into them if they balk at that.