<p>CC is usually for really unathletic ppl with good work ethic (at least at my school)</p>
<p>wrestling owns all… jk</p>
<p>yes baby, Harvard here I come…this is dreamy as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde</p>
<p>“what do you mean it hurts… go ice your legs and feel good the next day!!! Plus you guys have shorter practices!”</p>
<p>hmm…the max i ever did was 300m hurldes and thats a killer…400 cant even imagine…first you get a lot of knee pain bending it a weird way evry time you jump a hurlde and lasts for weeks…our practices are two hours…plus this isnt the point of this thread…every sport is equally considered depending on your rank…in my opinion track to rank in because there are so many competitors and your out of the top just by your time even a tenth of a second…</p>
<p>in my opinion track is hard to*</p>
<p>… I really think that all sports are looked at the same- good use of time, but not going to get one in (unless one is really really good). It is more about how many awards one wins, etc. Having said that, elite colleges seem to like having a good football team, but excluding athletes, the best “recruitable athlete” candidate will be doing something rare, like fencing (although this is becoming less rare).
As far as wrestling goes, it is a good experience and all four years of it is admirable. But in my case, I do not think that it is all worth it. I doubt that it sincerely looks better than other sports, but this would be an interesting study. Weight-cutting regulations are emerging onto the scene, but from my experience with coaches, they are rather cold and heartless. I did three years of wrestling, and couldn’t stand the last two.</p>
<p>There is no sport that is the best. Myself playing three sports can not honestly say one is better on a resume then the other. It’s all a matter of how much time and effort you put in it.</p>
<p>You could be a bowling state champion, and that would look better then varsity soccer.</p>
<p>BASEBALL is the best…good ol americas pasttime…</p>
<p>GO yankees! even though we lost 17-1…but anyways GO YANKEES!</p>
<p>David Wells pwned you guys…</p>
<p>Boston for the win!!!</p>
<p>pole vault is the hardest thing ive ever done in my life…almost died a few times</p>
<p>yeah i heard stories of how the pole snaps in half in mid air. that must’ve been scary.</p>
<p>I can’t believe no one has mentioned WATER POLO.</p>
<p>It combines soccer, wrestling, football, and swimming!</p>
<p>water polo is more of a team sport iono… </p>
<p>yeah 2-3 kids die every year from pole vaulting</p>
<p>His rationale isn’t all that bad. College recruits engage in the very sma etype of tenuous reasoning.</p>
<p>so when i list awards on the extra info for say regionals/state track should i mention the event for each year?</p>
<p>atown - yes. The more information you give the better.</p>
<p>This thread is such a joke, someone had the right answer a few pages back when they said: “The varsity sport that looks best is the one you succeed the most in.” There’s not one sport that looks better than the other on an admissions application.
My football “team” was the State Champions in 2003 and 2004, and that didn’t help individual kids who were below academic par get into Ivy League schools. I’d assume individual sports, where times and marks and “how good” one is can be more easily measured would help much more in admission than basketball or baseball or football or anything.</p>
<p>Crew…</p>
<p>**** This Shi-t.</p>
<p>Crew definately helps the sub-par… The whole varsity 8 boat got accepted to Princeton early, and some kids had like 3.2 and 3.5s. Only 2 kids chose elsewhere, moreso on merit(MIT and Stanford).</p>
<p>you reallyc ant say waht sport teams are hard to make…it all depends what the school is good at…most teams at my school are just signing up and you’re iN!</p>
<p>lucky girl then.</p>
<p>my school: CC - most not so good athletes (although some are) with good work ethic</p>
<p>the trick is making the teams everywhere else…once you make it, they basically hand you a letter.</p>