What can/can't go on an application?

[JEquestrian]

<p>I’m currently a Junior, and working on getting my transcripts, essays and all that fun stuff together for next year. </p>

<p>One of my biggest questions has been what can I, exactly, put on an application as far as ec’s and other things go?</p>

<p>For example, I took the Duke TIP a year early, (6th grade) and scored higher than 33% of High School seniors taking it. Can my involvement with TIP go on my application, or is it too far back to count? </p>

<p>What about community service hours earned in middle school?</p>

<p>What about ec’s that happen later in the year (after applications are sent in) that I know I’ll be involved in? (Mock Trial, Relay for Life, etc.)</p>

<p>Also, I was born in Bermuda but did not attend High School there/will not be graduating from there. Would that be attractive to a University?</p>

<p>And final question, as far as letters of recommendation, can a student at the University you’re applying to write you a letter? If I were to be accepted, the student would be Alum by the time I got there. If that were allowed, how good would it look?</p>

[JEquestrian]

<p>Bump…</p>

[notanengineer]

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For example, I took the Duke TIP a year early, (6th grade) and scored higher than 33% of High School seniors taking it. Can my involvement with TIP go on my application, or is it too far back to count?

Too early.</p>

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What about community service hours earned in middle school?

If you’ve continued that same form of service into high school, then I would say count them. Otherwise, don’t. The quantity of hours isn’t that big of a deal, anyway. Having, say, 600 hours instead of 500 won’t make any difference.</p>

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What about ec’s that happen later in the year (after applications are sent in) that I know I’ll be involved in? (Mock Trial, Relay for Life, etc.)

If you haven’t done them yet, then don’t put them. If you just started them senior year, then I wouldn’t put them unless you put in a significant and consistent time commitment since joining. But last minute ECs like that might not look favorable anyway. They won’t be impressive or deal-breaking, anyway.</p>

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Also, I was born in Bermuda but did not attend High School there/will not be graduating from there. Would that be attractive to a University?

Probably not.</p>

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And final question, as far as letters of recommendation, can a student at the University you’re applying to write you a letter? If I were to be accepted, the student would be Alum by the time I got there. If that were allowed, how good would it look?

No. I’m taking this to mean that he/she is a junior this year, a senior the year of your acceptance, and would just have graduated when you’re a freshman? In any case, doesn’t matter much. Letters of rec should only come from guidance counselor, teachers, coaches, and a few other sorts of people in some circumstances (like if there was someone who you’d done a lot of an extracurricular under or something).</p>

[Ghostt]

<p>Too early; too early; put it in the additional info section; no; it doesn’t matter where that person goes to school.</p>