<p>Are sports even worth committing to, if you can’t become the captain or the best at the sport?</p>
<p>I mean it takes up more than two hours of your time everyday, when you could be doing something else that looks better on your college application.</p>
<p>Why do you think that it looks worthless when you do anything you aren’t the best at?</p>
<p>Don’t do anything you don’t have a passion for. Admission counselors can figure that out pretty quickly. Better to have developed a passion and commitment for something than to just add things to your resume.</p>
<p>Lucifer-Please go ahead and do things to pad your transcript.
No one wants you on their team with that attitude.
The joy of sport is the team, the struggle, the wins, the losses, the discipline, the life lessons…
It is more than an entry on a transcript.</p>
<p>It’s worth doing if it’s fun.
If you’re doing it to say ‘look-at-me-I’m-captain-now-will-you-accept-me,’ not so much. Please do something you like; ulterior motives are pretty off-putting</p>
<p>I think its pointless to join a bunch of stupid club JUST to look good to college admissions officers.</p>
<p>Based on this post, for you, I think sports are definitely not worth it!</p>
<p>It depends. For CCers, I’d generally say no, because it’s not really an admissions boost. But for many, sports offer more than admissions–fitness, fun, competition. Sometimes I wish I played a sport when I see the soccer players or the LAX players running around in the sun after school, laughing. But then I remember that two hours a day after school is inane.</p>
<p>a little secret for you…you only live once…what college you get into will have a lot less impact on your life than you think.</p>
<p>OP your a moronic resume builder. Thank god people like you don’t exist on the teams I’m a part of.</p>
<p>…to say nothing of the health benefits of playing a sport.</p>
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<p>I definitely don’t think the OP should do the sport just for resume -padding, but how does an adcom immediately know its not for passion? The only space on the commonapp is like 1 sentence to expand on ECs and EXTREMELY limited space for essays. Another thing, the people don’t have to be passionate about EVERY EC!! Like someone else said, sports are good for exercise, making friends, and having pure fun. I don’t think a person should not do the sport just because they aren’t passionate about it.</p>
<p>BUT the OP should definitely not do a sport with that attitude. I just think in general, activities can be small fun things to occupy your time with, without it becoming full-blown passions</p>