<p>Hey everyone, I have a question. I go to a top college (hint: it’s one of HYP) and I play a varsity sport. Obviously it’s very time-consuming, so I don’t really have time for other extracurriculars. Also, I don’t exactly have a chance of getting a leadership position in this sport. Will this negatively affect my law school application? How do law schools view sports?</p>
<p>Schools aren’t going to care.</p>
<p>It’s often been said – and it makes sense to me – that future employers and such will care a great deal about team sports for the implicit teamwork aspects of it.*</p>
<p>This is more true of football, basketball, etc. and less true – if at all – of tennis, swimming, etc.</p>
<p>(*I have a very nerdy hippie friend who’s against “knucklehead” sports, Western medicine and the “premedical track”, and any and all wars, but even he talks admiringly about the traits that these activities produce.</p>
<p>“I hate it,” he tells me, “but there’s something special about people who go through these crucibles. Football playoffs, medical school, boot camp – there’s something very irreplaceable about these experiences that very few other things in this world really capture.”)</p>