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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is a not very good 4-year varsity athlete that also played the club sport off-season, so it was a LOT Of hours over 4 years.  She put both on her application, and was admitted at her first choice T10 school (not recruited athlete, obviously, as she's not very good).  [b]She had a different EC that was more of her "thing" for her applications,[/b] and also a couple other ECs that were more just for fun that she also included.

I think it's bad advice to leave it off.  I think part of what the college is looking for is the fact that this is a kid that can juggle multiple commitments -- whether that's a sport, or a volunteer activity or just working at McDonalds.  If you can keep your grades up while doing something like that, that bodes well for your college career.  [/quote]

This is what’s important…
Yes do the sport. But your kid had so much more….[/quote]

Right. No one is arguing that sports-only is the right approach. The issue is the Ivy Coach advice, which is that including sports hurts an application, that students should not attempt to be well-rounded because that isn’t what top-ranked schools are looking for. Which is crazy and demonstrably not true.

Also, schools care about populating all of their activities; that’s part of what makes them vibrant and fun. Students who play sports are likely to continue playing on intramural and club teams in college, just like kids who do theater in HS are likely to keep doing theater in college, kids who work on the newspaper, etc. Colleges want kids who are going to be involved and contribute to the campus community.[/quote]

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