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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gymnastics captain
AND Lead Cheerleader 
AND Math team captain 
AND Debate co-captain 
AND Faculty award for top student in HS

In at two of HYP[/quote]

Other than being good at becoming captain, I don’t see anything stand out in this resume.  Where is the impact?  How many times AIME qualified?[/quote]

DP.

It demonstrates a remarkably diverse skill set. I can’t imagine that schools see that combo very often.[/quote]

It actually makes it seem like none of those activities take a significant amount of time or commitment - which is odd, because I can tell you at our HS, it would be impossible to do them all together - debate would conflict with math team and gymastics, probably with cheerleading as well. You could do gymnastics and cheerleading for a different season, and maybe squeeze in math OR debate, but even then you would have to miss games, competitions, practices - which is really frowned upon at our school. [/quote]

"Tourist" activities:  they fill their activity list with busy titles that sound impressive but have no substance.  Typical kids like this in high school go for the titles in each club they participate in.  Admittedly they may be popular kids and/or maintain a good relationship with coach/teacher.  AOs see through this immediately and it's frawn upon.[/quote]

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