<p>My county has this week-long program called Outdoor School for sixth grade students where the kids live at a camp for a week and learn about environmental science and conservation, recycling, awesome green things of that nature.
High school students can volunteer one week per semester, and we students serve as (more or less) counselors. We spend the most time with the kids–Teaching two classes per day, leading a cabin of students, and maintaining a general eye on all of the kids.
At the end of each week, we receive evaluations from two staff members (one who evaluates our skills leading a cabin group and one who evaluates our lessons during class). They include three sections (ex: teamwork, leadership), each with a score out of six and comments regarding our work in that category. </p>
<p>I’ve received all fours & fives in the four evals I’ve received so far. Would it be at all beneficial to me to include my best evaluation and the rubric with my college apps? I’m planning to be a journalism major, so although it isn’t really related to enviro and teaching, the evals show my leadership and definitely show me at my best. (I like myself better at Outdoor School. I’m my best version of myself there!)</p>
<p>It would be better to get a glowing letter of recommendation from the person who wrote your evaluations, or the head of the Outdoor School. </p>
<p>“I like myself better at Outdoor School. I’m my best version of myself there!”</p>
<p>And that is the winning opening sentence of a great personal essay.</p>
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<p>And that is the winning opening sentence of a great personal essay.<<</p>
<p>I don’t think I agree.</p>
<p>to the OP, you should definately send an evaluation or get a recommendation letter, like M’s Mom said.</p>
<p>I absolutely do not agree that you should send your evaluations from the program where you volunteered one week per semester. I do not think the admissions officers give a rodent’s behind about the evaluations.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you can get a recommendation letter from someone who supervised you in this program, and if that letter adds important information about you that the colleges would not otherwise have, you could send a letter.</p>
<p>But keep in mind that these poor folks who read college applications are already reading until they’re weary. Don’t give them extra stuff to pore over if it doesn’t add anything of value to your application. They won’t appreciate that.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tips! It’s interesting, you all seemed to give the same advice, but some managed to keep the much too frequent on here “better than you” attitude out of their post. Thanks for that. </p>
<p>I’ll definitely be writing my personal essay on the program. It has been a huge part of my life, and is a much bigger commitment than it may seem. </p>
<p>Thanks again, folks.</p>
<p>Yikes, I get catty late at night. Sorry about that.</p>