Wiki with SCEA Roster

turtle
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:02:53 +0000

How about a scale of 1 to 5? People can do increments of 0.5, and they can write 0 if they truly had nothing (no essay submitted or something like that).

For Awards: A 1 is just minor stuff like Honor Roll. A 2 has some important schoolwide accomplishments (school record in sports, 1st prize in school competitions). A 3 has some important citywide accomplishments, a 4 has some important statewide accomplishments. A 5 is something truly amazing on the national or international level that gives you a big hook, like publishing a best-selling book or winning a nobel prize.

For ECs, 1 is just a couple things without much serious involvement, like intramural sports or 20 hours of volunteer work total. 2 is some activities with a lot of time involved but not much leadership or awards. 3 shows involvement and some leadership or awards on a few activities on a local level (team captain, first chair clarinet in school band). 4 shows leadership on a bigger level (fastest runner in the state, started a successful business). 5 would be something really amazing, like producing your own TV series on NBC or training for the Olympics and winning a medal.

Essays will be harder to rate, but people can estimate. This includes essays and short answers. 1 is if you know you’re a bad writer, you wrote it the night before, and there are probably some gramatical errors. 2 is if you spent quite a bit of time on the essay and you answered the questions well but nothing stands out and it’s somewhat boring or cliche. 3 is if you are a good writer and you spent quite a bit of time on the essay and you have some memorable passages that you are proud of, but you wouldn’t call it the best. 4 is if the whole thing was wonderful all around and you might even find your essay in one of those books on how to write a good college essay. 5 is if you get a letter from the dean of admissions telling you that there is a position open as a writing professor–or just if people told you your essay was one of the most amazing things they’ve read. Don’t be modest and give yourself a lower grade than you deserve.