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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids aren't college age but from what I'm reading it is all about having a deep passion, not having lots of activities on the resume.   The selective colleges want students that have the grades along with the ability to contribute to the college community.  I think it is harder if your kid hasn't find any long term commitments or the activity is something that doesn't impact anyone else like reading or playing video games.[/quote]

Agree.  And if you want to "play the game" it's not hard for a thoughtful, quiet kid to find an interest to devote himself to in an "impressive" way.  OP's son may already be doing this.

In terms of colleges that don't care so much about ECs, if your child has not only great grades in rigorous classes, but high test scores, colleges outside the US might be a good fit.  McGill in Canada is a very good school that doesn't even ask about ECs on the application, and I think it's generally true of some of the top schools in Scotland too.  Or just go to College Confidential and check the forums for threads about which colleges like "high stats" kids.  If grades and scores are high enough, a kid can be automatically admitted to the honors programs at a lot of schools like University of Alabama, and receive good merit money.[/quote]

I agree that there are activities for a 'thoughtful quiet kid to participate in an impressive way".  We also have insisted on one activity.  For our DC, it was scouts.  He was in Cub scouts and wanted to quit when he crossed over to scouts and we said fine as long as you find something else that builds leadership and skills, is social, adds to the college resume and gets you out of the house at least once a week.  He said no to playing any instrument, Model UN, theatre, Lego team, rocket team, athletics were out... So he stayed in scouts and threaten to quit every year until about 9th grade. He is now a junior.  He received his Eagle this winter and was the Senior Patrol Leader - which was a stretch but he found a way to do it quietly and will little fanfare (he turned out to be a great administrator and delegator).   [/quote]

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