Athletics as an extra-curricular

Hunt
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:17:54 +0000

I’ll give you an honest answer: I’m not persuaded that ecs that are exclusively sports are that great if you’re not good enough to play for the school. It sounds like you might be good enough to run for Yale, even though perhaps not good enough to be recruited. If that’s the case, it will probably help you in admissions.

But in general, I think that showing passion and commitment isn’t enough for highly selective colleges to be impressed by ECs–they also want to see high levels of personal achievement. So, commitment and passion for, say, violin-playing, isn’t going to help you that much if you are last chair in a non-competitive orchestra.

OP, your case is hard to judge, because you do have significant personal achievements–the question is, how good are they? That’s hard to tell from what you’ve posted.