<p>I don’t play any sports. Im not really sportsy person. Im into art and music and debate.</p>
<p>Will this be a hinderance upon my college acceptances? Many people say that getting into a good college is impossible without strong sports background.</p>
<p>Sports are not necessary. Showing strong involvement in extracurricular activities is necessary at a lot of top schools, though. Art, music, and debate are fine activities. If you have shown excellence in them, won awards, or shown leadership, it will help. If you have used your skills in the activities to help the community, it will help. You can also be accepted at a lot of schools without having any activities, if your grades and test scores are good. To get into the Ivy League and other top schools (Stanford, Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Northwestern, etc), you generally need to be outstanding in your ECs.</p>
<p>Art, music and debate are fine extracurriculars, even at colleges with a strong athletic presence. If you are especially talented they can be serious hooks.</p>
<p>You don’t provide much (any) information about where you are in the college search, but when you probe into it I’m sure you’ll find that colleges need artists and musicians and dancers and actors just as much as they need athletes. They don’t actively recruit them though as they do athletes, so it’s up to you to make sure that your talents shine on your application.</p>
<p>Most colleges accept slides of artwork and performance tapes for music. See the websites of the schools that you’re interested in for instructions.</p>