Extracurricular Spike

Hi @Swayam_Jain17,

Thanks for asking your question. I think having good ECs is important to the college admissions process.

I'm not really sure you have what most college admissions readers would call a spike in anything you listed.

Sports - Literally millions of HS applicants do sports. And your level of athleticism is a couple of tiers down from being a recruited athlete for a Division 1 or Division 3 team. 2 activities are fan ones. And 2 are actual sports. Most would consider ultimate frisbee sort of derivative versus a key sport. And if you were team captain of your school Varsity football team and you went on to win a State championship as a team, now that would be something impressive to write about. There are 16000+ FB teams in high schools in the US with 40-50 players per team, that's 650-800,000 FB players.

Computer Science - Besides coding a game and blog, it would be hard for anyone to tell if you are an accomplished coder. Do you know Java/Javascript, Python, C/C++, R Language, Kotlin, C#, PHP, Scala, or Go? And teaching kids coding is cool as also being part of a club. But as you know these days there CS is the most popular STEM major at US Colleges, so you are competing with many skilled and experienced students. I would say CS would be more of a spike if you had fluency in multiple coding languages, took outside CS courses besides the expected AP CSP, AP CSA, and held some leadership on a robotics team, attended some CS summer programs, worked in a CS lab or had an internship with someone trying to build something interesting, or started a business fixing up smartphones or laptops or getting technology to marginalized kids in the community.

Your other 2 mentions would not qualify as spike activities either.

I don't think it is fair use of anyone's time to classify your ECs for you. I think it's okay to ask 1 question like is this EC a 3b or a 3c or something like that, but you should be the one that attempts to classify your own ECs.

Good luck.