What constitutes an extracurricular activity?

turtletime
Mon, 03 Feb 2014 23:47:10 +0000

Certainly, out of school activities count. Almost all of my kid’s activities are outside of school but there is still some structure and “paper trail” to their doings if that makes sense. I do think what counts depends a bit on how it’s practiced. If you are creating games that only you and your buddy ever see… I’m not so sure how positively colleges would look at that. However, if you had your own sever for which 50 people played on a game you designed and kept up… that might have a little more credibility.

I’ll say that colleges often say that they aren’t interested in a laundry list of activities. Being in 20-30 activities isn’t a positive. You just can’t give 20-30 activities real depth of involvement. 3 years of debate and two clubs that you are interested in is quite alright. It would be nice to put the programming in if it’s important to you and takes up a large amount of time. You’d just need to package it in a good way.