As you've probably heard through the grapevine, college admission officials are typically more interested in students who have made a major investment in a couple of activities rather than in “serial joiners" who boast of long lists of undertakings but demonstrate no real significant involvement with any.
If you love what you're doing—and have time for everything without sacrificing grades or health—then there's no reason to cut back. But if some of these endeavors, such as yearbook and jazz band, are staying on the roster primarily because you think you'll be in line for a leadership role, then “The Dean's" advice is to dump them.
Frankly at the “elite" colleges that you aspire to attend, yearbook editors and band or orchestra section leaders are a dime a dozen. You really won't get much mileage out of these at admission-decision time. So do them if you love them but not for application fodder.
Your coding sounds like the most unique of your activities so perhaps that's something you can continue and develop, assuming that you find it satisfying. Even if you're doing this coding on your own and it will never lead to a “presidency," it might just be the one item on your list that makes admission officials sit up and take notice, especially if you take it in an uncommon direction. You could be creative and combine this interest with another one. For example, launch a Web site called something like “All That Jazz," where members of high school jazz bands from throughout the country meet up to share suggestions, complaints, funny stories, and even college recommendations.
And if you're a good enough runner to catch a coach's eye, then that's another area that you may want to focus on. Recruited athletes usually get a big “hook" in the admissions process, although it can be a quantum leap from being a successful high school athlete to qualifying for a college team.
But most important is that you continue activities because you choose to and not because you're concerned about what admission folks will think.
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