Which EC to discuss in detail?

paying3tuitions
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:11:10 +0000

As impressive as it is, I have a feeling you could list the key facts of #2 on some kind of list, in short form, and get it all across to the reader with terse phrases.

The large commitment to the Temple might be more engaging to read. It’s personal. If you think otherwise and prefer to write about the research, that’s good but be sure to quantify the Temple service , eg “2500 hours” rlsewhere on a list, so the reader registers it’s very important to you.

If the rest of your application just booms out loud: I’m smart, so smart! then I’d go for the Temple description to show your human side. I would like to know and imagine you as a a person.

But if the rest of your ap booms out, “my stats are shakey…” then you can write convincingly about the research if you feel you need it to really show you are academically minded. I have a feeling your stats are great already, and if so, I’d say: write about the more personal temple activity as a balance.

In other words, if you list the research in short bullet point form somewhere, it says all there is to say about it. Not so with the temple service; if you can express that well, it makes you more 3-dimensional, and shows you could contribute to campus life because you care about your community. Maybe that’s only what people do for LAC’s – my 3 all went to smaller places than you are considering. So take my advice from that perspective.

It’s more about which one you can write about with great passion, warmth, and enthusiasm. JMO

Another way to figure it out: if you could weave one of those into your larger personal essay, and mention it as an example of some point you’re making there, then you don’t need it for your short answer.

Point is: try to find a place for both subjects somewhere in the ap. One can be in this short form EC paragraph, but then use the other somewhere else: at least on a list, and if possible, within a larger essay.

Don’t write this late at night, either, or you’ll start to ramble as I am doing. G’nite.