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June 4, 2019, 2:01pm
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FWIW: There is now an alternative to the Common Application that is giving students more options to present themselves to Admissions Committees. It’s called The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/what-college-admissions-wants.html
Last year, Yale allowed students using the coalition’s application to submit a document, image, audio file or video in response to a prompt (they also had to reflect, in 250 words or less, on their submission).
When Justin Aubin heard about that option last fall . . . the following prompt caught his eye: “A community to which you belong and the footprint you have left.” He submitted a short video documenting his Eagle Scout project, for which he oversaw the construction of a monument honoring veterans.
The content of the video impressed Yale’s admissions committee. “People sat up in their chairs,” Mr. Quinlan said. “You could see how he handled his leadership role, and we felt like we got a good sense of him in a way that we didn’t get from recommendations.”
Mr. Aubin is now a freshman at Yale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=cmnKgRXClRM
The video submitted by this student is a good example of a someone positively impacting their community through one of their extracurriular activities. And the video certainly made this student stand out!