Any disadvantages to using Common App?

Colorado_mom
Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:29:33 +0000

It can be hard to convey ECs on the Common App (and a lot of the apps with little space), especially if something unconventional.

One idea would be to have an essay that gives more detail on the most interesting one. My son did that. He described how he got hooked on composing when he didn’t want to be on stage for the sophomore Shakespeare play and opted instead to be the Music Director. It was an awseome activiy (he went back and did it twice more), hard to compress into a tiny line.