I am a sophomore at Mt. Carmel High School in San Diego. I know that I may be a little young to be thinking so much about college, but my dream school is UCLA and I really want to go into medicine. Currently, I am number 1 in my class of all almost 500 kids and I hope to keep that up through high school. I participate in a variety of extracurriculars including Friendship Club (Best Buddies), Key Club, Future Doctors of America, Cheer, Science Olympiad, Academic League, and Speech and Debate. I also intern at a local hospital and do lots of volunteer work with several different nonprofits. I already hold leadership roles in speech and debate, friendship club, and three non profits. I also plan to acquire leadership roles in science Olympiad, key club, and academic league. I know that I have involved my self with a great deal of extracurriculars, but I just want to explore my different interests. My real predicament is that I have frankly fallen out of love with cheer and I am seriously considering quitting. I have spent the past two years in cheer but I don’t see myself flourishing with cheer and I have many other interests that I would like to pursue. I was just offered the position of producer of the school play and I am extremely intrigued by the opportunity. I know how colleges feel about commitment, so I don’t really know what I should do. I don’t want colleges to think that I am a quitter. On top of that, I used to be a competitive dancer, but I gave that up this year because I knew that I loved dance but not as much as the other competitors. I love science, math, and interacting with other people. I think drama could be a good outlet for me, but I’m not really sure because of the whole college thing. Also, I could use some advice on if colleges are going to think I have taken on too much. I feel like a lot of my extracurriculars are related, but I don’t want to seem uncommitted. I have good time management so I am able to manage everything I have going on. Finally, the non profits I am involved with are All Girls STEM Society, Build a Miracle, and Operation Courage is Beautiful. All Girls STEM Society does monthly events to get young girls interested in STEM. Build a Miracle travels once a month to Mexico to build houses. I usually go on a trip every 3 months. Operation Courage is Beautiful makes care packages for females in the military with things to make them feel more feminine. I am also a pageant titleholder
Do what you like. I think you have so many activities it will look like you don’t do much in any of them. I’m sure cheer takes a lot of time.
Schools want to see that you participate in a few activities, not in EVERYTHING. If you want to drop cheer or other activities, just do so on good terms, giving them notice to replace you.
Let yourself quit things you don’t really care for. It’s much more important to do what you enjoy and explore what interests you. That’s how you will shine. Don’t worry so much about impressing admissions counselors. Your high school time is too short to waste it eorrying so much about college. You’re obviously very accomplished already and will do fine.
I submitted my UC application two days ago and I was only allowed to report 5 jobs, 5 volunteer opportunities, and 5 extracurriculars. My advice is to quit cheer and simply not report it. Leave the room for the activities that you’ve shown commitment and leadership in. Please don’t stress out too much about ECs because they’re not as important as everyone makes them out to be. When I was a freshman, I planned on joining two clubs per year, but now I’m not even reporting half of them. Follow your heart; that’s the best place to start. 
Hint 1: ONLY do the ECs that you want to. There will be plenty of top schools that will take you based on what you have posted. Any school that doesn’t like that you leave an EC - the heck with them!
Hint 2: Learn to use “paragraphing”. Please! And Good Luck - you’ll do fine.
I agree with others. Dropping Cheer after 2 years means nothing. And PLEASE, use paragraphs. Perhaps you’re typing from a mobile device – regardless it’s extremely tough to read a block of text.
Good luck