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All of my 'extracurricular' activities that turned out to be useful/productive/important were not organized in any way by adults. I think many people are arguin

• fargle 2y ago
  sure, many of mine were the same. and i bet you could have tied that to what you wanted to do in an essay. so to me, that isn't a problem, certainly not a good example of why colleges have their "heads up their asses" (oh and i certainly think they do). and yes, in fact, volunteering at a hospital should be viewed favorably for pre-med. and yes, you will be a better student if you play some kind of team sport like softball than if you did nothing. so perhaps the comment i was replying to made bad arguments? for example, if a school only liked mainstream athletics and ignored anything else (which is probably not a stretch), that would be a better example of "having their heads up their asses". but the specific examples given were the opposite - they actually make sense.