Is it true that UCLA only accepts people with a sport? Or can you just have other extracurricular activities..

Question

...and hours to help you? My mother's friend's son got into UCLA because of his sport. Or something like that.

Answer 1

Sports is one of many extracurricular activities you can have. So the short answer is no; you don't have to participate in sports if you are active in other extracurricular activities.

Sports tend to highlight your competitiveness and motivation to achieve, but you can easily show these qualities if you focus on developing leadership skills in your other extracurricular activities.

Extracurricular activities literally means anything you do outside of school. So if you participate in school clubs, sports, church groups, take lessons in anything, volunteer, hold a job, help take care of your family/siblings, these things all count as extracurricular activities.

Answer 2

It is absolutely NOT true that you can only get accepted to UCLA with a sport. They have a large student body with many different interests.

Answer 3

Hello.
No, it is definely not true that UCLA does that.
In fact, i dont think any colleges do that. However,
you need to do something you really like so that
you can write them down in your college application. If you
like sport, do it, if not, forget it. Keep in mind the
most important thing... get good grades!!!