<p>DS is a junior at Bay Area High. He has good gpa (aroudn 3.8ish) after 1st sem junior year with 2300+ SAT (will retake in Oct next year) and 35 ACT. He has many academic achivements (quizbowl, scioly, ecybermission etc and has won state/national awards, has qualified for AIME) and has done two research internships at the labs during summer, attended COSMOS during summer…working on a third internship with a Stanford researcher.But he is lacking in sports…done HS basketball in freshman year but that is about it…How would it be viewed from the admission perspective? Do the colleges “require” sport to be there on the profile? His first choice is Stanford…please advice.</p>
<p>His time was well spent doing activities that mattered to him and will matter to an admissions reader.<br>
Do not worry about this from an admissions perspective. As a mom, if he’s a total couch potato, you may want to prod him to get moving for his health.</p>
<p>The most important thing he can do now is keep his gpa high. I’m assuming the 3.8 is unweighted? And, he ranks in the top decile?</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply…Yes 3.8+ is unweighted…His weighted is approx 4.1…He is planning to take up another sport in senior year…Our school dose not rank, so how would we find out whether he is in top 10%</p>
<p>There is no point in retaking a SAT that’s already 2300+ while he already had a 35 ACT. And as for sports, second what siliconvalleymom said:</p>
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<p>There is no rule whatsoever saying that any applicant has to have a sport or that merely having participated in a sport is a plus. Achievements in athletics at a high level may give him a boast, yes, but merely playing a sport is just like participating in any other extracurricular activity. No one activity is necessarily better than another except perhaps in terms of one’s personal preference, and he’ll be much better off devoting that time to doing something that he actually loves.</p>