Should I quit marching band

ProfessorPlum168
Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:09:17 +0000

The general rule of thumb is, what will you do with the extra time? If it’s something very meaningful that you can put on your resume, then leaving is probably ok. Most kids though wind up sleeping in on a Saturday morning or partying on a Friday night instead. Otherwise I think that being in marching band, especially if it’s a good one, does a lot for your resume. Colleges like to see the stick-to-it-ness of seeing 4 years in marching band because it shows perseverance and that’s the one EC that’s easy to verify. All those band competitions, if the school placed, can go on your college apps as achievements. If you manage to be a lead or a drum major, that’s very significant.

The sort of bad thing at my kid’s school is that in order to be in marching band or jazz band or any of the performing groups is that you have to also be enrolled in concert band or a wind/string/percussion ensemble. That does take up a valuable time slot for many, since one usually only gets one or at most two electives a year and a lot of kids tend to go AP hunting or fulfilling language requirements with those electives.