Most impressive first or most meaningful to you first?

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>The common application activity list asks to list your activities in ** their order of importance to you.<a href=“it%20is%20bold%20on%20the%20application”>/b</a>. </p>

<p>I have a research internship that looks more impressive than my concertmaster position, but violin is really more important to me than my research (though both are near the top).</p>

<p>My guidance counselor, wants me to put research at the very top, though, supposedly to “sell myself”.</p>

<p>Does it even matter?</p>

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<p>Definitely put the concertmaster position first. You just said it’s most important to you and that’s what they want to know. They will also see that you’ve been playing the violin for however many years longer than you’ve had the research internship and that will show them that although both are important, violin is your true passion (although I am assuming you’ve been playing the violin for a long time and have only held the internship for a shorter amount of time).</p>