Introduction

Students in a college community have a plethora of op-portunities at their fingertips. Between clubs, sports, in-ternships, college events and sorority/fraternity groups, students can be involved in almost anything and every-thing. It has become a new standard to be “well-rounded” expressing your interest and involvement in a variety of outlets. But when is being a well round high achieving in-dividual just too much and when do the positive effects of this active life style turn to have negative effects?

How Students Spend Their Time

Involvement in Extracurricular Activities,

Sports and Work effect a students performance

in classes and therefore the students’ GPA

“Well-Rounded Student”

-ticipates in a variety of extracurricular activities,

year.

Methods

-volvement in the categories listed above

and required a University student login allowing us to control our sample

-lyze the data collected.

Although we found a negative correlation

between extracurricular participation and

GPA there are many benefits to being a well-

rounded student not captured by GPA.

Discussion

is a fairly significant difference.

requirement for varsity players and the team helps orga-nize studying

-nificant.

None of our results were statistically significant, a larger sample pool, and a more random sample may lead to stronger conclusions.

Does Student Involvement in Extracurricular Activities Have an Affect on Their Academic Success?

By: Nikita Bourque & Anne Elise Parmentier