Activities/awards section

<p>Woo! I can finally access this part of CC. It wasn’t letting me earlier, oddly enough…I posted this in college essays, but no one responded… heheh.</p>

<p>I have a few questions about the activities:</p>

<li>Did you separate activities and awards? </li>
<li>Did you not only put hrs/week, but also wks/year, like in the common app?</li>
<li>Did you put the things you listed under “work experience” in this section as well?</li>
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<p>Thanks so much!</p>

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<li>I listed them in the same document but obviously separated.</li>
<li>For most activities I only put hrs/week but for some I also included wks/year - for example for one activity that I did only over the summer</li>
<li>Yes because the things that I listed under work experience needed explanation. I don't think it's necessary but in my case they probably wouldn't have understood what I was doing if I hadn't explained it.</li>
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<p>i also have a question about this. did you list the information in a list format, or talk about it like an essay?</p>

<p>In a list - but I wrote a few sentences to each activity.
not like in an essay, though, just informative.
for example, below the activity "Student Newspaper" I would write "I was Editor-in-Chief and thus responsible of content, finances and sales of this weekly issued paper" or something like that.</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

<p>hey did anyone go so far to explain each activity? i saw some people in this board do that..</p>

<p>Um well my explanations were extremely brief. Pretty much what Rister_Cutophs said above, except the EC's I were really passionate about, I'd have two or so sentences.</p>

<p>Mine ended up being about four pages though...with a lot of spaces inbetween because of formatting. Is that way too long??</p>

<p>! Is that a bad thing? I had three (sections on three) pages, and on each page, half was a list of the activities and awards and half a page was a description of some of the listed activities. </p>

<p>I spent more time explaining what each meant to me than actually listing a Christmas list of activities. That's not necessarily a bad thing right?</p>

<p>I ended up writing an activity, followed by a list of accomplishments/offices under that, and then a paragraph or two about why i thought the activity was important or what i gained from it.</p>

<p>is that alright?</p>

<p>acadec, that's what I ended up doing, and I saw a lot of people say they're doing that as well</p>