<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Is Chess considered as sports? I mean out school has JV/V team but not sure if I should categorize it as "JV/V sports team: others" or "Other club".</p>
<p>Also, Can you check my order of importance for activities?</p>
<p>I am applying to the College of Engineering of Cornell</p>
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<li>Internship(Making websites for clients)</li>
<li>Secretary of Academy of Informational Technology(Computer department basically)</li>
<li>Charter member of mathletes(Is charter member considered as an officer?)</li>
<li>Secretary of Chess club and JV/V team member</li>
<li>Computer club member</li>
<li>Volunteer at Senior center</li>
<li>Bus boy at local restaurant as summer job</li>
<li>Local Soccer Team</li>
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<p>Also, Should I put "Volunteer tutor for ESL students" ? it was for a short period of time during freshman year.</p>
<p>A charter member is not an officer, IMHO. I would put chess as an “other club”. Yes, I would put the ESL tutoring in, even though it was for 1 year. Order of importance looks fine if this is what you think is most important to YOU.</p>
<p>So I should not put “charter member” in the position and put it in descriptions?</p>
<p>As for the ESL tutor, It was not even a year; it was 3~ 5 months before the regent. Should I still use it?</p>
<p>Also, do the descriptions have to be in full sentences? and what should I put? I am confused about what I should put If I did not win any awards in the clubs.</p>
<p>Yes, put charter member in the description.</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with putting the ESL tutor in… it can’t hurt you. It isn’t like you are overflowing the activities section. Just put in that it was 9th grade, # of hours/week, and leave it at that. Or leave it off if you don’t want to, but it won’t hurt you.</p>
<p>Description does not need to be complete sentences (they don’t give you enough room for that!). Stuff you might put in the descriptions(purely examples, just to give you some thoughts):</p>
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<li>Internship(Making websites for clients) - “Created X websites for X clients, Java .net blah blah…”
<ol>
<li>Secretary of Academy of Informational Technology(Computer department basically) - “Responsibilities included blah, blah”</li>
<li>Charter member of mathletes(Is charter member considered as an officer?) “Charter member” (Did the team ever have a good year or did you do well yourself? Squeeze that in if you can).</li>
<li>Secretary of Chess club and JV/V team member (Again, how did the team do/did you have any individual successes?)</li>
<li>Computer club member (Maybe put what languages you programmed in)</li>
<li>Volunteer at Senior center “Helped seniors blah, blah”</li>
<li>Bus boy at local restaurant as summer job (not much to say here)</li>
<li>Local Soccer Team (Is this a club team or what? What position did you play? Any team successes, or just a weekend league or something?)</li>
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