<p>Mine is like, a page, and basically the Common App activity/awards list with a little more elaboration…I wish I had more stuff to write, but I don’t.</p>
<p>Also, FRINGEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!</p>
<p>Mine is about a page and a half. I listed a few activities and wrote two or three sentences about each of them.</p>
<p>Well, after working on my activities list for a while it turned out longer than I initially thought it would be. It’s just barely over 2 pages. But somehow, I’m gonna shoten it that little bit… to not waste paper, you know. </p>
<p>And whee! All these ex-Yale people applying to Brown! Exciting. =)</p>
<p>Incidentally, I stayed at Brown for four weeks this past summer for a creative writing mini-course. It was great. ^^</p>
<p>Mine is 2 1/3 pages long</p>
<p>My extracurricular activities have paragraph explanations. My awards and other miscellaneous (sp?) things are simply listed.</p>
<p>Ok, so I need to orient the page horizontally for my activities list…that’s not going to like, kill the adcom and make me automatically rejected, is it?</p>
<p>Ex-Yale love, Yuck Fale!</p>
<p>Um doesn’t Brown just ask for a list in order of importance with years participated, hours per week, positions held and awards recieved? How do you people have 4-6 pages? The question doesn’t ask to elaborate. I thought it was pretty straight forward.</p>
<p>mine was three =/</p>
<p>mine was onto a third page but I had a bit of spacing to make it easier to read</p>
<p>agrrrrrrrrrrr people dont exaggerate! that makes my life harder.
After reading your posts, I seiously feel like i’ve got to write a pragraph on every one of my activities…</p>
<p>thats what I did… lol</p>
<p>Photography and internship at a hospital - those two things are my most important activities. I wrote about both of these in detail in other parts of my application already. I won’t have to write about these again, right?</p>
<p>what did you write in your little paragraphs? how your activities affected you? what they mean to you? what specific things tou did? such things?</p>
<p>You don’t have to write little paragraphs - how I interpreted it was, if the activity NEEDS more elaboration because it’s obscure and/or it means a lot to you, you should write no more than 5 sentences about what it is and how you contributed.</p>
<p>why does everyone say different things!!!
I have a 150 word paragraph for one of my activities (reusing the one from the common app short answer…) is this not acceptable?
also, i listed a couple of things that are actually already mentioned in the work experience part. a bad idea? My EC would look too poor without these two… Would it make more sense if i list them and elaborate on them since the work experience part does not provide any space for explanation…</p>
<p>I wrote little paragraphs… cause I like paragraphs. And I don’t have many ECs!! Party time.</p>
<p>VFRIZZZZ!!! IIZZZZYYYY!!! Yeah I’m over Yale… not right for meeee</p>
<p>i just formatted it like the common app…and yes, i did write a paragraph for my most important extracurricular.</p>
<p>I wrote the name of the activity, title/position received, hours/week, and sometimes a sentence to clarify if I thought the activity wasn’t obvious</p>
<p>it ended up being a 1.5 page resume-style list, and apparently it was good enough because I got in ED</p>
<p>so please, you guys, stop stressing about writing paragraphs and whatnot. I mean it’s good if you did, but don’t feel compelled to do anything…</p>
<p>Sectumsempra, did you attached your activity list to a paper application or were you able to submit it online?</p>
<p>are you supposed to separate awards from activities? because those are quite…different.</p>
<p>The application never explicitly said to EXPLAIN your activities in paragraphs. Unlike other applications that specifically tell you to expand on a certain activity, Brown was actually pretty vague:
Please tell us, roughly in order of their importance to you, those individual activities and awards which you believe best represent your greatest achievements and interests.</p>
<p>So, I didn’t explain anything. I just LISTED my activities with hours per week, weeks per year, years received, leadership positions, awards in each activity, plus other awards in a section, plus trips, etc. It ended up being two pages spaced-out. And I’ve already submitted my application.</p>
<p>All my activities are pretty straight-forward though— like concertmaster, senior soloist for h.s. orchestra, or national qualifier in original oratory? I mean, I didn’t think I NEEDED to explain anything. </p>
<p>My ACTUAL essay for Brown was about music, which is my main EC. I could re-use my common app-activities essay about speech and send it in…late, I guess. What do you think should I do?! Should I just let it be?</p>