Varsity Sports as EC

skieurope
Thu, 31 May 2018 14:57:20 +0000

A part-time job is an EC. Volunteering is an EC. A varsity sport is an EC, no better and no worse than any other EC. How an individual college “values” an applicant’s EC (when not a recruited athlete) has less to do with the EC than with what the applicant gained from it and/or brought to it. There is not magic number of EC’s that are “best;” it’s student-specific, IMO.

Colleges that value ECs (and there are many colleges who simply don’t care) will not evaluate the ECs in a vacuum; it’s simply one part of the application.