Do High School Sports Matter for Harvard?

gibby
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 02:14:11 +0000

Sports are a huge factor for Harvard, and other ivy league schools, but ONLY if you are applying as a Division 1 athletic recruit.

If you just play a sport recreationally – be it soccer, squash, track, basketball, baseball, etc – then it’s just another extracurricular activity like doing student council, debate, student newspaper, theater, dance,et al.

Bottom line: If you were aiming to be a Division 1 recruited athlete, you would have spent last summer at some sort of training camp and not just now thinking about what sport you would like to do… So, don’t worry if sports matter – because for you (and most student’s), they don’t. Do something because you LOVE to do it, not because it might help you gain a leg up in the admissions process: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways