Does being captain of a sports team help in admission

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four pages with variations on "don't do it because my kid was a superstar athlete, didn't write about sports, and ended up at a top 10 school". Sorry your single instance examples really don't matter.

Parents on here overthink the essays way too much. If the grades, rigor, test scores, and ECs are all good enough to get into the school then the essay topic really doesn't matter, what matters more is the quality of the writing, can they get their point across?

Again, for most schools this is true. OP is asking about T10 and yes the essay matters for those schools.

+100

[Anonymous]

Likewise, students shouldn’t write about being first chair violin in orchestra.

Make sense?

[Anonymous]

The essay is an opportunity to showcase core values, service to others etc.

Not “I practiced so much I improved to first chair”, got the lead in the school play, or earned captain, in this case.

Perhaps this is mostly because this is ALREADY INCLUDED IN THE EC SECTION.

Why waste words saying it twice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Likewise, students shouldn’t write about being first chair violin in orchestra.

Make sense?

But they can have an essay that uses their experience with violin to answer a prompt and can mention that they made it to first chair, but it's included as part of their narrative, not as the main idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure about college admissions, but I'd rather hire the student who captained their baseball team then a student who started a club to save the rain forest in antarctica.

I’m guessing you’re not on the admissions committee at an Ivy, are you?

The world is a different place today, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure about college admissions, but I'd rather hire the student who captained their baseball team then a student who started a club to save the rain forest in antarctica.

I’m guessing you’re not on the admissions committee at an Ivy, are you?

The Ivies will have plenty of former baseball captains … on the baseball team.

The world is a different place today, PP.