Thank you for good information.
yay another NHDer! haha
i think there are those things we all i know we love doing
i play lacrosse and golf at school (other things too i promise) but i also love yoga and surfing
i am putting those right next to my school sponsored actvities becuase it is who i am and my application is supposed to me on paper
we cant change adcoms opinions of the value of certain things just how much we value them
I find it stupid though that some colleges give so little room to list/expand on your EC’s. Its really stupid how even though you’ve spent years on an activity they force you to either throw some of them away or to just write a word or two about them. Really stupid (the common app gives a good amount of room, but im talking about those stupid applications that ask you to list just 1 extracurricular activity…as if any person would just limit himself to one activity.)
i have a Q, i spent alot of time on research (and i like it) and i participate in the big competitions and its possible i might win next year. the only problem is, i think i want to major in business in college. will adcoms look down on me for this as if i’m “giving research up”
haha alamode. i think you are from the nhd forum, no? i’m earo689
thank you that will really help me out
i think I have too much extras… which ones should I pick?
:p…
Someone want to help me choose my extracurricular activities that I should write in my essay? I have so much passion for all of them.. I cant decide.
Debate, Tennis(JV + Varsity), Quiz Bowl(Varsity)
Volunteer Work:
Volunteered at Public Library and got a good community award for it.
Volunteered at a IVY League University and worked with different groups of professors.
Volunteered at hospital for over 100 hours.
Can someone help me please?!?!
Which one do you honestly love the most? Which one do you feel you have the most to say about? Are you good at tennis? How did your quiz bowl team do? How did your debate team do? What did you contribute to each of these persuits? What was the community award for? How long ago did you get it? What did you do when you volunteered in the hospital? When did you do that? Did you do it during tennis season? Are you still doing all of these activities? Is there one which you would continue to persue beyond high school?
How can I prove my eca’s without certified proof? I don’t have an arsenal of them, but am zealous about the few.
Make sure your counseler knows about them and mentions them in his/her recommendation, and mabye ur teachers to. That will be the most verifiable proof they’ll need. If you something big like a national president they just use something called “google.com”
Well, I am an amateur animator and have worked under a teacher to develop a multimedia tutorial for kids. The teacher will recommend me but I cannot send a sample because that is copyrighted material belonging to him. Is that okay?
I also write to newspaper pointing out the different problems in my community. I can’t get a recommendation from paper but have all the cuttings as proof.Will that count?
I have no volunteer or cultural works. But I’m worried because everyone most
probably has.
Okay. I’m incredibly involved with Russian Club at my school–been an officer for four years, president for two, it’s a huge commitment and we do a lot. My essay is about saving the Russian program at my school from budget cuts. My Russian teacher & club advisor is writing one of my recs and I’m sure she’ll talk about my work in the club.
My question is, should I use the 150-word common app EC essay to write MORE about Russian? Is that overkill, OR would it look really weird if I wrote about something else? I’ve got plenty of options, and I’d kind of like to show off a different aspect of myself, but on the other hand Russian Club is a pretty unique thing that I definitely want to highlight.
Thanks!
check these articles out about buildign your college application.
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How much help is being a national officer actually? I’m a national officer of a club right now and I just began to wonder it.
I’m really big on genealogy. I researched the Italian side of my family to 1800 and one string of my Icelandic side up to 850 (No, that isn’t a typo). What would be the best way to include that?
hi umm i have a question…
im a swimmer and swim like 15 to 20 hrs every week
im not in any clubs
i dont have much volunteering time yet but i will by the time i apply for college… at least 100
im a junior this year btw
like i said, im a swimmer im good enough to make it to states (really isnt that good) but im not that good. lets say that no college in their right mind would offer me a scholarship for swimming
but would it be okay if i wrote about swimming as not just a sport but something i became accustomed to and like the things that ive leared though it?
like swimming is painful, but i learned to work as a team and learned to be more enduring and stuff like that… i gained a lot of other things than just to swim faster
so would that be a way to impress colleges? to write about how like one ec had/has a big impact on my overall life?
ps. i keep my grades up.. i have a 4.0 and take a ton of ap classes…