Importance of sports?

collegealum314
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:31:06 +0000

I agree with everybody who has commented. Also, with the exception of MIT and Caltech, most schools with an excellent engineering program won’t care what you have excelled at.

One way to sort of have both would be to participate in the AMC or ARML competitions for math and/or for the U.S. bio, chem, or physics team tryouts. You don’t have to attend meetings for this stuff, but if you do decently well (qualify for AIME, make semis for the US science team tryouts), then this shows you are someone who goes above and beyond the call of duty.