Looking for big schools that look at applicants activities/leadership

[Mwfan1921]

@cgemaj

My last child got accepted to a school and when she was in the application process she reached out to admissions to ask about submitting a resume of her activities, awards, leaderships etc… and they said they pretty much base their acceptances off of the transcript (grades, rigor etc…) and test scores and that they weren’t interested in a resume (not those exact words obviously).

This would (generally) describe many less selective schools especially public schools…including nearly the entire SEC (the conference you noted in your OP). Note in the SEC there are several schools that require test scores: U Tenn, UF, UGA.

Private schools and highly rejective publics tend to be relatively more holistic. Sticking with the SEC, Vandy values leadership and ECs, but they also value test scores (and stats/rigor > ECs/leadership), plus they aren’t ‘big’.