<p>So dose it? to be a crew there? would you put it on your ECs?</p>
<p>ummmm I don’t think so. I mean mentioning you have a job is okay on your ECs, it helps a bit but just because its McDonals doesn’t make it anything special, its still a job. Not trying to sound mean because my response kind of comes off a bit rude but I’m just saying that I don’t think it makes or breaks your application. good luck though, I have a job too but this other place and it help to mention it on your apps. :)</p>
<p>^^^ I want to know the truth so you can be as rud as you wish… I am open minded.
but what I meant is if you had a ton of ecs (14) would you include it. (not enough space on common app for all)?</p>
<p>A Cornell student I know wrote her main essay on being a barrista at Starbucks.
What’s the problem with working on the crew at McDonald’s?? My D, another Cornell student, just listed her job at a candy store.
I think a better question is how you can make a cohesive, meaningful presentation with over 14 ECs.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if I’ve said this on one of your old threads - the 14 ECs sounds rather familiar - but stop dissecting your application into its constituent elements and asking silly questions like “how does X look?” or “will X get me rejected?” It really comes down to the story or the impression you produce in the mind of someone who’s taken a cursory glance (20 minutes tops) at a stack of papers that purport to capture your formative experiences. If your McDonalds experience consists of cursing at inanimate objects and resenting what you have to do in order to earn money, that’s not an image that would make you very appealing to me. If, by contrast, your story is about how working ‘on the other side’ of a fast food counter lent itself to observations about consumer culture or about working on a production line (the whole a-cog-in-a-machine theme) or something that adds insight to narration, it probably would vivify you and hopefully, make you sound like an interesting person to have on campus.</p>
<p>Not if you are trying to stand out from others . WHAT makes you a unique candidate ? My D babysat in Spain for her 16th summer . The next summer ,she volunteered for 8 weeks on an organic farm in Sweden . She tutored for literacy during high school . She organized several blood drives .Stuff like that …</p>
<p>any real life work experience is good. Shows you are mature enough to take on responsibility, can handle work and school (time management) and you understand the importance of earning some money and maybe helping your parents out financially.
Definitely list McDonalds employment on Cornell application.<br>
If application is getting out of control, consider reducing the # of EC’s (8 to 10 is certainly sufficient) and list employment at McDonalds. Sometimes I think kids with too many EC’s are doing it to impress Ad. Comms and don’t really care about the activity. </p>
<p>who knows- you may have a work experience that will be worthy of an essay!! Life lessons can be learned even at McDonalds.</p>
<p>i like srrinths suggestion- you can learn alot about people by working at the counter of mcdonalds- or target for that matter.</p>