otaru

Woo! I can finally access this part of CC. It wasn't letting me earlier, oddly enough...I posted this in college essays, but no one responded.. heheh.

I have a few questions about the activities:

1. Did you separate activities and awards?
2. Did you not only put hrs/week, but also wks/year, like in the common app?
3. Did you put the things you listed under "work experience" in this section as well?

Thanks so much!

Rister_Chutophs

1. I listed them in the same document but obviously separated.
2. For most activities I only put hrs/week but for some I also included wks/year - for example for one activity that I did only over the summer
3. Yes because the things that I listed under work experience needed explanation. I don't think it's necessary but in my case they probably wouldn't have understood what I was doing if I hadn't explained it.

acadec

i also have a question about this. did you list the information in a list format, or talk about it like an essay?

Rister_Chutophs

In a list - but I wrote a few sentences to each activity.
not like in an essay, though, just informative.
for example, below the activity "Student Newspaper" I would write "I was Editor-in-Chief and thus responsible of content, finances and sales of this weekly issued paper" or something like that.

otaru

Thanks so much!

art_star

hey did anyone go so far to explain each activity? i saw some people in this board do that..

akiiriah

Um well my explanations were extremely brief. Pretty much what Rister_Cutophs said above, except the EC's I were really passionate about, I'd have two or so sentences.

Mine ended up being about four pages though...with a lot of spaces inbetween because of formatting. Is that way too long??

Dudboi

! Is that a bad thing? I had three (sections on three) pages, and on each page, half was a list of the activities and awards and half a page was a description of some of the listed activities.

I spent more time explaining what each meant to me than actually listing a Christmas list of activities. That's not necessarily a bad thing right?

acadec

I ended up writing an activity, followed by a list of accomplishments/offices under that, and then a paragraph or two about why i thought the activity was important or what i gained from it.

is that alright?

otaru

acadec, that's what I ended up doing, and I saw a lot of people say they're doing that as well