<p>I think they want specific volunteer activities (i.e working at a food drive, organizing a fundraiser). I have one activity that I did from Dec. 2010 to Jan. 2011. I’m just including all my hours in 2011 to save space.</p>
<p>Do we need a recommendation letter to go along with the forms that we are having filled out?</p>
<p>Ok so bottom line(i see this came up last year too!)…If you have something you started prior to 2011 but still did in 2011, do you list it in A and just say 9/2008-present or would that go under section B because it was “undertaken” in 2008? I am trying to decide if undertaken means you started it then? What throws me is in section B where it says -do not include activities from 2011…ugh!</p>
<p>What I did was I listed all volunteer work in 2011 separately in that section and only included my 2011 hours.
Then I did the same for the other ones, only including 2008-2010. I listed the same activity a couple times, but gave different hours and dates.</p>
<p>Do you guys think it will be ok to take up two lines to write awards/positions if were not going to take up all the space for that many activities anyways?</p>
<p>Also can we hand write the activities/volunteer portion of the application</p>
<p>carm33na,</p>
<p>I mean…I assume that they want a letter or rec along with the form? I don’t know if htat’s what you’re asking but I believe you need two recs - one from someone from school and one from someone outside of school.</p>
<p>nervous - same issue with my son and the form. we gave up. it will be 2 pages.</p>
<p>question on recommendation letter. we had someone email us their recommendation; which we printed. Question is - do you think this is good enough (scanned signature) or do we need to have the original?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>@nervousohio </p>
<p>Yes, that what I was asking. I actually read through the instructions again and finally found it. Funny what you can find when you calm down and read things slowly. :p</p>
<p>Should these essays be answered anecdotally?</p>
<p>so they dont want our sat scores or academic awards? ):</p>
<p>^ SAT score is filled out by your counselor. </p>
<p>Hey, do we HAVE to have sealed letters? I’m giving an official transcript, but I don’t have my letters sealed…and I’m completely snowed in my house, so I won’t be at school until after the postmark deadline. </p>
<p>But they never say it has to be sealed.</p>
<p>For family background, can you talk about a specific person? Or are they talking about your ethnicity?</p>
<p>Since they want a picture of us on the application, do you think part of their decision will be slightly influenced by appearance? If so, I’m a shoo-in. ;)</p>
<p>What if your volunteer work is part of your clubs? Should you put it in both sections?</p>
<p>^ don’t double your information. I have the same situation and decided to use it as volunteer hours.</p>
<p>Yeah eobaggs, since they ask for a picture I’m definitely a shoo-in as well. I mean, how can they resist after looking at my picture?</p>
<p>…Ok just kidding…</p>
<p>Does anyone know how the local bottling scholarships work?</p>
<p>Hey, uhm… they didn’t say that the photo had to be good quality, right… or businessy, right? I took one of my senior pictures ( me smiling behind a tree in the bright sunlight) and printed it on PRINTER paper because I ran out of pro paper… Do you guys think they’ll be okay with it? I’m worried.</p>
<p>If chosen as a finalist, the picture you sent will be used in their scholars biography booklet that is distributed to all finalists. Evidently, some did not send a picture as instructed or it was poor quality and couldn’t be published because D’s year, several were missing pictures.</p>