Mentioning poker when applying for college?

[Quasi]

Hi,

I'm from Sweden and I'm currently thinking about applying for college in the US next fall. I was, however, starting the process last year, before I decided to take a year of for poker, and was suprised as to how many questions about extra-curricular activites and other stuff you had to answer in your application. See, in Sweden we don't actually have a lot of "clubs" and stuff in high school and I don't know anyone (in my age) that has done volunteer work and so on.

So my question is, basically, if you think that I should mention being a succesfull poker player in my college application? The reason to why I'm asking is that this could be seen so differently from country to country and I don't really know how it is in the US.

Hopefully you'll sort this out for me... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[-zero-]

Please dont. There are schools that to try block gambling sites from dorm and library internet access. Its not looked at as a good thing.

[Flow73]

Being foreign is extra-curricular enough. Avoid poker, a lot of people don't consider being succesful at poker a good trait.

[SuperUberBob]

Pretty much a no-brainer. Same applies for job applications as well.

Poker is still frowned upon as a shady, rigged game by the general public regardless of the current boom. It's changing, but not enough to draw positive vibes from it.

[bruin]

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Please dont. There are schools that to try block gambling sites from dorm and library internet access. Its not looked at as a good thing.

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[catalyst]

don't mention poker. poker involves no skill and all luck, and everyone eventually loses all their money, becomes a degenerate gambler, and lives in a cardboard box. right?

[MexKrax]

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don't mention poker. poker involves no skill and all luck, and everyone eventually loses all their money, becomes a degenerate gambler, and lives in a cardboard box. right?

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Don't forget that it also turns straight A students into bank robbers.

[catalyst]

I think they rob little old ladies instead, to feed the cocaine habit they developed from partying too much.

[NoahSD]

The problem is that they're likely to assume that you're a gambling addict, so I wouldn't make a big deal of poker in your application.

I mentioned poker in mine because it was starting to sound really nerdy, so I talked about hosting poker games at my house and stuff.

[Quasi]

Ok, thanks guys! That's what I was afraid of but I still thought that it might be different in the US somehow...