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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are his ECs? Favorite subjects?[/quote]

EC: Top player on high school sports team & outside sport as well, volunteers with the special olympics and officer at the best buddies club at school. Works as a coach and referee. Favorite subjects are the social sciences (AP Gov, history classes). Favorite subjects tend to be very teacher-dependent. One year it might be math and another year it's history. [/quote]

Although your schools don't admit by major, a stronger application narrative would have ECs that align to an academic interest.

I'd apply Sociology. Sociology of sports is a common undergrad class, and it's a subdiscipline of sociology that studies sports as social constructions (analyzing their role, function, and meaning within culture & society). The various Why Major essays would tie to many of his ECs (how sports influence and are influenced by power dynamics, social structures (gender, race, class), and he could tie it into institutions like media/economy/education) studying both the good and bad.

If he has a chance to do an independent research project, I'd go in this direction too, but only if the angle feels true to him.[/quote]

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