<p>List any jobs you have had during the academic year (excluding summer employment)</p>
<p>Jobs = paid only</p>
<p>Common App specifically asks for paid jobs.
Can I put volunteering work or/and internship for "Jobs" in Columbia App.?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>volunteering by definition isn’t paid.</p>
<p>if internships are paid then yes</p>
<p>Oh, my mistake:</p>
<p>I meant do they imply Jobs as the things that people get paid for?</p>
<p>I was asking whether I can put internship that I wasn’t paid for in Jobs Section.
(They didn’t specifically say “paid jobs” (as Common App did), but they may imply it)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>bump bump, anyone please?</p>
<p>I think jobs implies paid. If you can’t fit it in the EC section as Columbia only gives 3 spots for out of school ones, maybe just put it in additional info.</p>
<p>Thanks
char</p>
<p>there is a section that allows you to put out of school commitments, you can put volunteering there.</p>
<p>but certainly if for some reason you write down something that was not paid but perhaps considered a ‘work experience’ down in jobs, they aren’t going to call someone up and ask if you were paid or not.</p>
<p>use your discretion, and it will be different for every student.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response.
So from your response, I can see you assume that after all, the Job section is there only for Paid Jobs, right?</p>
<p>In practice, they will not ‘investigate’ on such a small part, but in which case you mean that they will expect activities listed under Job section are all those that I got paid for.</p>
<p>From the name anyway, my activity sounds ‘non-paid’; I have no intention of deceiving anyone, but it is certainly a valid ‘work experience’ as an intern of the work experience program at school.</p>
<p>Do you still recommend me that I put this under the Job Section?
I’m simply asking for advice, not to launch a debate on this small part of the application :)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>okay a few things are going on - the question is geared toward any job that might impede you from doing extracurriculars. it helps them piece together your free time. and this gives them an idea if you spend the days in front of the TV or if you are doing things for yourself, your family, your community, etc. </p>
<p>i think the most narrow way to read it - it is for paid jobs. i think the most liberal reading - it means anything that doesn’t fit in the other boxes (heck i know folks that put down babysitting brother, reading, and other things).</p>
<p>i think you could of course put it under the jobs section, but my advice is that it is best placed (from the sound of it) under out of school commitments. </p>
<p>the adcom is not going to hunt down the truth in a lot of cases, and they understand the language is not 100% clear on what they are looking for. (in fact in this ambiguity they learn a lot about students, what they prioritize, what they value.) </p>
<p>so long as what you give them provides a sense of who you are, what you do, and what your potential is - that is all you can hope for. but if you are worried about some fielty to some unwritten code of what to do, you can’t find it because the adcom will on a daily basis receive dozens of variances from the same question. your concern should be to present it in a way that you think represents you, and doesn’t alienate your reader (don’t be too weird).</p>
<p>Honestly, it doesn’t matter too much where you put it as long as you DID it.</p>
<p>For example, I put “Federal Way Boys & Girls Club” as an in-school activity even though it was out-of-school because I already had 3 out-of-school activities to put down. I also put “Most Inspirational Player Award” under ‘position of leadership’ even though it is more technically an award. I even asked my admissions director if that was okay and he was completely enthusiastic about me putting it on. </p>
<p>I may have been accepted despite these two choices, and they may have actually hurt me (doubt it though). What I am saying is that don’t worry too much about it-- if it was an internship it doesn’t matter too much if it was paid or not since it is more like a job than an extra-curricular activity anyway. I would recommend putting it as a job. Good luck!</p>
<p>Can we actually do that/would you recommend it? I don’t have 6 major school activities and I have a lot more than 3 major out of school ones.</p>