Regarding @compmom comments about EC activities and their impact on admissions to elite colleges, I assure you that having a long list of EC is NOT necessarily a good thing. My S had a very strong averse reaction at even a slightest hint of having to do something just “for college admissions,” so I learned early on to keep my mouth shut. He and his older brother were influenced by Jackie Chen when they expressed their wish to take on Taekwondo. The fact that I used to teach martial arts when I was young probably influenced them in that direction, as well. He and his older brother were and still are archrivals in tennis since very young, and their favorite way to relax is watching various YouTube videos of tennis matches on their cell phones. S started Korean Club because he wants to learn the language and the culture, most likely influenced by K-pop music and dramas; he started Chess Club because he loves chess (he was a scholastic state chess champion in K-3 division and the highest rated chess player in the state at that time - long ago). So, no, he never did anything against his heart’s leaning (even those “imposed” activities that were required for NHS membership, he did gladly mainly because these activities gave him time a chance to be with best friends).
Someone posted a thread somewhere here in CC regarding how important the EC activities are or not. I think the quality matters more than the quantity. In fact, my S intentionally discarded many EC activities off and only used the ones that he’s been involved longer and more meaningfully. If S were to have just the music related activities, I wouldn’t have worried about the lack of “other” type of activities. For admissions to elite colleges, though, I’d imagine that the level of quality music related activities should be high. One of my son’s best friends, to my son’s consternation, learned that he got rejected by every single elite colleges he applied to in spite of scoring the perfect ACT and SAT scores and with higher GPA than my son. His only options are now either Purdue or UCLA, both excellent schools, just not the schools of his dream. His music related activity was pretty much limited to his participation in his high school orchestra and the all state.
The bottomline is that EC’s should be built based on the child’s own long-term genuine interest as opposed to “for college.”