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  2. Choosing a College Based on Extracurriculars? Bigger is Better!

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    Washington Post college guru Jay Matthews writes that college-bound seniors should devote more attention to the extracurriculars offered by colleges they're considering. "When area high school ...

  3. Student activities - Wikipedia

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    Academic student activities refer to clubs and programs specifically focused on helping a student in the academic sense. These can be major-based, area of study-based clubs, or programs and events designed to educate students in any scholarly subject matter.

  4. Extracurricular activity - Wikipedia

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    Children at a chess club in the U.S. An extracurricular activity (ECA) or extra academic activity (EAA) or cultural activities is an activity, performed by students, that falls outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school, college or university education.

  5. After-school activity - Wikipedia

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    After-school activities, also known as after-school programs or after-school care, started in the early 1900s mainly just as supervision of students after the final school bell. [1] Today, after-school programs do much more. There is a focus on helping students with school work but can be beneficial to students in other ways.

  6. Why Colleges Don’t Know What to Do About Campus Protests

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    He banned most extracurricular activities, cut and eliminated sports teams, abolished the campus newspaper, enforced strict dress codes, and solicited donations from pro-Jim Crow donors.

  7. 'We're really worried': What do colleges do now after ...

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    Colleges and universities were advised to take an inventory of programs or policies that deal with race and ethnicity, including scholarships, and encouraged to conduct legal reviews of how any ...

  8. Olin College - Wikipedia

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    In terms of non-academic materials as of 2022, Olin ranks extracurricular activities, the interview, talent/ability, and character/personal qualities as 'very important' in making first-time, first-year admission decisions while ranking whether the applicant is a first-generation college applicant, legacy preferences, state and geographical ...

  9. Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard - Wikipedia

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    [34] [33] The plaintiffs alleged that Asian Americans scored higher than applicants of any other racial or ethnic group on other admissions measures like test scores, grades and extracurricular activities, but the students' personal ratings significantly hampered their admissions chances. [34]