Common App Essay on an EC?

vikings3214
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:42:03 +0000

I’ve been perusing this forum and have seen some people who strongly believe it is bad to write your common app main essay about one of your Extra-Curricular activities since it seems like you are just re-doing your resume.

I know that Pitt’s application, which does not use the Common App, has one of their topics that says “elaborate on your participation in a school-affiliated group. talk about leadership positions, etc etc.”

So i was thinking to write on that topic for Pitt and then for schools who use the common app, i.e. Penn, Northwestern use that same essay. It would probably fit under “other topics”.

My thinking is to elaborate my journey on the Speech and Debate Team. An essay where I describe how I’ve grown from when I first started freshman year, until now. Would this be a bad choice since its one of my main EC’s on my resume?