Should I include 1 year of a varsity sport on Common App?
During my freshman year I tried out for the bowling team with my friend for fun. At my school, we only have a varsity team for bowling since the team is so small. I only participated for my freshman year so should I even bother including it on my Common App? Will colleges see it as a way that I branched out as a freshman or as a non-commitment?
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If you have other better ECs to put down on the common app, I would include those before typing in 1 year of bowling during 9th grade. This EC will not help you much since bowling is more of a social thing than a difficult team sport like lacrosse, football, basketball, or track. There are no recruiting opportunities with bowling and you don't exert much physical activity participating in it. Now if you played Club Soccer for 10 years and then decided to try Bouldering/Rock Climbing, that would be "branching off". I don't think any admissions officer would seriously think that bowling is challenging yourself by branching off into anything requiring you to test your athletic ability and strength. Even playing on the Ultimate Frisbee Team requires more effort. I don't know if you have a pre-existing health condition that prevents you from participating in more traditional sports so forgive me if what I wrote doesn't apply to you.
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definitely add it in, when you describe it use the same info as you just put.
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