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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] I don't think the committee members will score an applicant being passionate about 1 sport and someone being passionate and possibly doing well in mathcount, science olympiad and robotics the same way. [/quote]

I think these could possibly be scored the same. The one sport can take up as much and more time as mathcounts, science Olympiad, and robotics. The difference I see is the fact that the activities with more academic content might enhance and reinforce academic achievement at school, thus helping the child to get better grades. So the child might do better at school partly because of his outside activities. On the other hand, a sport can take away from study time. So the kid who achieves highly in school while devoting hours to a sport actually can have a more impressive record when it is fully considered.
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In this country sport is worshiped while academics is not. One of the reasons the public education is doing so poorly compared to other countries. High school's primary mission is to educate students not sport. College's primary mission is to educate not football or basketball. Public education will never improve with this twisted priority and mentality.   [/quote]Agree.[/quote]

The point of the previous post wasn't that that sports are prioritized over academics, but rather that a kid who can handle both high level academics and high level athletics has shown the ability to work hard and to be organized and manage time efficiently and effectively. [b]A kid who can achieve highly at school and outside school (whether in athletics, music, art, or drama) [/b]is just as or possibly even more impressive than the kid who spends all their time doing school-related activities.

If you can achieve as much as your co-worker in half the time, you are very valuable to your employer, so you can see how a student who can learn the same amount in less time would be likely to be successful in a demanding environment like TJ.
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Athletics, music, art or drama can be school sponsored or school related just like some academic pursuits may not be connected to schools like independent scientific research, writing, computer programming, or courses taken outside of school etc. I don't see why you should make the above assumption. You seem to imply that there are "no checklist of activities" for TJ but then seem to imply that " athletics, music, art, or drama" may be better than other types of activities. Bit inconsistent.    [/quote]

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