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[quote=Anonymous]I saw something on Reddit today that reminded me that this guy from the Game, with his disdain for sports, may make his applicants look too one-dimensional to AO. Or just not different enough?

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[i]Should I include a sport I have played non competitively for years in college applications[/i]

"The kids around here tend to put too much emphasis on "impressing" AOs with their ECs (which is very hard to do), and not nearly enough on "interesting" AOs with their ECs (which is a more attainable goal).

So the EC lists you see from kids around here often seem to blur together--all the same sorts of competitions for kids, "starting a non profit", and so on. That's not a good way to stand out to colleges.

But something like being a recreational badminton player could in fact add some interest.

A final thought to keep in mind is the fundamental point of all this is that US residential colleges are not just about classes and labs and such, they are also about various non-academic student activities which in the US "liberal arts tradition" are supposed to be a part of your broader education/development as a young adult.

This tradition in some sense goes all the way back to the Ancient Greek Academies, and sports has always been a part of that tradition. And to this day, sports are a big part of the US residential college experience.

But that doesn't just include varsity sports (for which you might need a lot of highly developed talent). It includes club sports, intramural sports, and recreational sports. And your participation in anything like that could be a valued part of your student experience, and further could be part of making other students' experiences better.

OK, so there are colleges in the US where they are playing badminton in some organized way. Sometimes there are club teams which are very competitive, but often--including in parallel--there are IM/rec organizations. And that is something you might well be interested in doing in college.

Which more or less automatically makes this a potentially useful activity to list, as it could help an AO imagine how you might fit into a thriving residential campus."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1kphvk7/should_i_include_a_sport_i_have_played_non/[/quote]

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