Cookie-Cutter Extracurriculars

GatorGuyDallas
Fri, 02 May 2008 16:58:10 +0000

Sports, like any other EC, can be anywhere along the spectrum from very time consuming to minimal. You hope the admissions folks can sort through which students sank a ton of time into a sport, thus limiting the time available for other ECs.

My son (current Junior) puts about 500-600 hours a year into baseball with close to a hundred games and nearly 200 practices a year. With 1300 students in his Senior class, making the varsity baseball team is highly competitive. Tack on 10 APs during high school and the time gets chewed up in a hurry. He certainly could fit other stuff in, but he hasn’t chosen to and I have not pushed it.

When it comes time to send in applications next fall he’ll be able to talk about baseball in an interesting and passionate way and we’ll hope the folks at Florida like what they see. But, in the end, he plays baseball because he loves it and not for the application resume. Hopefully that’s just a bonus.