Ivy League Colleges Still Within Reach?

tallgirl
Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:02:37 +0000

The ECs ~ sports catch22: therein lies the risk/rub. For in order to be at the top of your sport and “recruitable” , many hours of practice are needed throughout high school. And in my sport, all with the hopes that you will get your personal time to defined level that is what college coaches want. So with all this practice, there is no time for other extracurriculars (on top of maintaining a desirable GPA). yet if one doesn;t get their time to where the college coaches want to see it by end of junior year, then it is a shame admissions-wise that some of that practice time wasn;t used for in-depth involvement in other ECs the AOs like to see. Because if you end up not recruitable for your sport and have spent ALL your time on it, then you have little else EC-wise to dazzle or hookin the AOs with, sadly. Which is why one should LOVE their sport and not be doing it just for that slim slim chance it will boost their college admissions!