Additional Information -Special circumstances essay/section - What are you writing?

jamiroquai
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:10:57 +0000

Just talked to the college counselor at my school about this. She used to be an admissions officer and she said it annoyed them when students would fill out the 7 activities and then attach a resume that lists barely anything besides the 7 activities on the common app. It can be a bit extraneous unless you legitimately have like 15 activities (which might be too many regardless).

If your activities fit in the 7 spaces then you probably don’t need to fill anything out in the “additional information” box. I’m putting 3 small activities (2 club memberships w/out leadership and <50 hours of volunteering) in the box, in bullet-point form. I’m sure you could also elaborate on your 7 activities in the box with info that can’t fit in the 90-character “details” box. It seems like it’s pretty open-ended.