Luckily, work experience counts as an extracurricular activity. Students shouldn’t feel reticent about including their time as a cashier at a fast food restaurant on their résumé. A strong ...

With colleagues from multiple universities, the Common App and the College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative, Baker analyzed extracurricular activity descriptions in more than 6 million Common App ...

But even though there is a correlation between extracurricular activities and a higher GPA, only 44% of students participate in an activity — whether it’s sports, music, the arts or some ...

These activities can keep them mentally engaged and, depending on the activity, physically active, but the advantages don’t end there. Read on and learn about the benefits of extracurricular ...

What was your extracurricular of choice? Oyin Adedoyin: My extracurricular activity was cheerleading. And funny enough, I had to stop a couple of years in because I wanted to get a part-time job.

Extracurricular activities that children participate in outside of school can help them improve skills, make new friends and get active. Selecting a suitable activity can be challenging, as there are ...

Back-to-school season marks the return of parents spending big on sports and hobbies. Affluent families have long been in an arms race to pack kids’ schedules with activities to help cultivate ...

White kindergarten children were 2.6 times more likely than children of other races/ethnicities to participate in athletics -- the most common type of extracurricular activity, the research showed.

Researchers at The Ohio State University found that students who participated in one school sport and one other non-sport extracurricular activity were indeed more likely than those who did not ...