Our son worked an unpaid film internship freshman summer, attended a one-week rowing camp at USNA junior summer, but spent the rest of all his breaks and summers with his Boy Scout troop working toward his Eagle rank. In general, though, my impression was he spent most of his time sleeping, playing video games, torturing his cat, and coding. When it came time to apply to college, he had a very short list of very deep ECs: film, rowing, and Boy Scouts. That’s it, three lines, no padding. He was accepted to all of the fine colleges to which he applied–up to his acceptance of his USMA appointment after which he had to withdraw his remaining five apps, so we’ll never know about those, but they don’t matter. All you need is one.