<p>Only Years of participation are possible
with minimal space for leadership positions...</p>
<p>No space for any other details?</p>
<p>AND no list of activities encouraged through additional information right?</p>
<p>How did people deal with this? just write 'name of position' 'name of activity' and '9,10'..sth like that?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>bump bump char</p>
<p>I only put leadership positions and years of participation. Most of mine were straightforward, but if you think they should know details about some of them, expanding on your activities in the additional information section probably won’t hurt.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure they discourage you from adding a list of activities in in additional information section. I think the reason why they have only a few slots and ask you to order them from most important to you is so they can gauge what you’re passionate about. Having a list of everything you’ve participated in defeats the purpose of that.</p>
<p>Oh, so i shouldn’t put ‘events’ that I organized as a ‘leader’ of a ‘club’, then?
only years of participation?</p>
<p>^yes, because honestly everyone can list every event they did in an organization. if i was on key club, i could list every volunteer activity i did. if i was on math team, i could list every contest i went to or organized. as a ‘president’ of a club, however, you are assumed to have done all that stuff so listing it in additional information would grow redundant to admissions officer. what could really help is if you have one of your club advisors also be your teacher, so that he/she can write you a letter of recommendation about your contributions to the club AND classroom. (thats what i did – im sure it helped)</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>I had the same problem…i feel like just the character limits would do me injustice…</p>
<p>it’s hard to really tell what things you’ve really done in a club and the major awards you’ve earned by just listing your position…</p>
<p>i added an activity list…some accepted ED students did as well (i did some research before sending it in on previous threads) </p>
<p>Don’t go overboard tho…i’d say one page is an absolute max…</p>
<p>1) usually gcounselors fill in the details of your participation, and if you are truly involved in something it will come out very clearly (albeit maybe subtley) in other ways - what you write about, what teacher’s say about you, what books you read. trust the adcom folks, they don’t necessarily need you to tell them what you did, they can put their head around it, usually.
2) they ask about the activity you are most passionate about - you can speak there.
3) additional information is for whatever other information you wish to provide - so if you believe that your candidacy would be helped by explaining what you did specifically then i think you should definitely put it down (but don’t feel like you need to). most activities are pretty straight forward what they mean. i would therefore not just attach a resume, but rather write something a bit more concrete that describes what you did, what steps you took to start something special. don’t just have on there i was a member of model UN. but maybe if you started a model UN conference you want to explain what you did and perhaps not use up your essay space for it.
4) list of years shows to some degree depth of participation.</p>
<p>Okay, I see…
(I meant putting ,‘position’-event1,event2 in extracurric space…rather than in Add. Info)</p>
<p>I decided not to put anything in additional info …
Thanks</p>
<p>PS Can I additionally ask:</p>
<p>I am living with my parents and have a sister who goes to a uni in another country, thereby living in another country.</p>
<p>In taht case, the # household: is it 3 or 4?</p>
<p>Thanks!!!</p>
<p>Just a question about the space for activity that has the most meaningful commitment:</p>
<p>If I already talked about that activity (music) in my personal statement and submitted a recording, can I write about a different activity here, without them assuming that this activity is more important to me than music?</p>
<p>Good question.</p>
<p>IMHO, I would try to incorporate music if its the image youre trying to convey of yourself (aka youre some music loving band geek who plans on participating in college, etc.). Your essay is probably like a single experience within music (im guessing here) and the activity section is more describing the overall activity of it. so itd probably be different</p>
<p>I’d advise you not to rehash your personal statement. I personally wrote about working in a hospital for my PS (showing my passionate interest in medicine) and speech/debate for my “most meaningful EC” (showing my interest in intellectual discussion/debate which was also reflected in my recs, the interest section, and my “why columbia?”). Maybe I was a special case because I felt I had to show both sides of myself, but I didn’t just want to focus on one thing.</p>
<p>I don’t really feel like writing about the overall activity will contribute anything. I’ll probably just write something else then. Yea my personal statement was more or less about a single experience.</p>
<p>Is it okay if I write a brief description in the “Leadership” box for activities that don’t really have such a thing as a leadership position?</p>
<p>I am an international, so a lot of my activities really do need explanations, especially because we dont really have clear club things at school… And I also didnt find a spot to put my AP Scores (I didnt take the courses) and other test results (like language certificates etc.) Will they kill me (reject me) for adding an additional sheet?</p>
<p>Hmmm I’m having my guidance counselor send one that says Guidance Department Summary of Student’s Activites on it along with my transcripts and stuff… that way they can’t reject me for it since I technically did not elect to not follow directions… haha, sneaky way out.</p>
<p>Hahaha, that is pretty smart! I am sending my resum</p>