I am confused about how the EC/activities sections of the common app works. If there are only 10 spots, how can I fit 13 activities if 5 are clubs? Also, let’s say I am the president of 3 of those clubs, can I put President for ClubA, ClubB, and ClubC just for one slot of the 10 in the application?
Thanks in advance.
You’re supposed to choose your top 10 most important activites, rank them in order of importance, and list them induvidually.
There is also an Additional Information section you could use for some further explanation or possible to add a couple of other things you have done – 650 word limit. But be judicious - don’t list everything under the sun and dilute what’s most important.
I would list each club you are a president of separately and drop a few the activities you are less involved with off the list.
Hmm yea that’s what I was thinking of, but what if the other activities are actually really worthwhile to put?
My kids both went over 10, and had very good results. Here are the rules they followed:
And they still went over 10 (small HS to kids were encouraged to do a lot of activities, and busy summers). So then they had a header in Additional Info they called “Additional Acticities”, and they bulleted those out.
Be sure you order the Activities so the most important ones to you are first, though.
D and S were both able to combine activities into that space as @intparent suggests. “Music” was one they both used to include multiple activities, D did two summer academic programs that were similar except for the class taken, those went together, etc.