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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about commitment to activities outside major? My kid is doing well in STEM major but two clubs are music based. Would that even be considered?  [/quote]

No!  Professors have an almost autistic or religious obsession with their field.  My post-doc friend worked in a university lab like characters on the "Big Bang Theory", funded by grant money controlled by a senior professor.  Her professor boss told her to go in on Saturdays and Sundays to make sure the Ph.D. students were working. 
Furthermore, he told her to run his experiments during the week, and use the lab for her own experiments on weekends.

Look at this successful scientist in Hawaii.  [i]"He retired in 2005, but continued working on natural and assisted reproduction [at the age of 77]."[/i]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuzo_Yanagimachi

At my old elite university, the chair of Religious Studies complained that Ph.D. students were not fluent in Hebrew, Ancient Greek, and Aramaic.

Some Ph.D. graduates end up in dead-end fields, working in support roles for mediocre money.  But others view the field as a calling.  One old Ph.D. friend had some type of offer from Harvard's math department for terrible money.  He thought of asking for a couple thousand dollars more.  Then he realized that math pays poorly, and other graduates would like nothing more than scribbling on a blackboard with historically famous mathematicians.  So, my friend went to Wall Street instead.

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