Common App Help in the award/honors equivalent and EC

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>Hi,
I'm trying to fill up that common app form by Feb 14, and i'm not very sure on how i should actually fill the EC section and the award equivalent. </p>

<p>As for the awards, I got best student in the school. How should I write it as? Then how about subject prizes? Do i just say English Prize, Maths Prize etc. or is there a special name for it?</p>

<p>Then, for the ECs, first they ask us to list our position and the awards. Secretary should be accepted right? For awards, i've got first in some song composition competition, a few recorder competitions and composed some songs for the school. How do I actually write them as?</p>

<p>Then at the bottom of the EC page, there is one long box to fill up details. What should we put in the details?</p>

<p>There are some non-compulsory details - should we fill them up or just leave them black? Would that hurt the app?</p>

<p>For the essay,</p>

<p>A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you. </p>

<p>Can academic interests include my music and film? </p>

<p>Or does that relate more to this question:
Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.</p>

<p>or</p>

<p>Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence. </p>

<p>for the above question, if i relate both my film and music interests into one essay, would that be acceptable? Cause to me, they're quite related. But, i don't know if this would generalize the essay.</p>

<p>I know I've been asking countless questions, but i'd really appreciate all your help!!</p>

<p>Thanks so much for reading!! Any input would be more than welcome!!</p>

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<p>Here, try these answers and see how it goes for you.</p>

<p>Awards and subject prizes: The name you should use for each is whatever your school calls it -- or what's printed on the certificate they probably gave you.</p>

<p>EC position -- yes, secretary is a position.</p>

<p>Competitions -- give the name of the competition, the level of competition (school/local/state/regional/national), the place you won, and (if you know) the number of other people who won the same place and the total number of competitors.</p>

<p>For the 150-word EC "mini-essay," write what you choose to write; just make it center on one of your ECs. Some students use the space to elaborate on what they actually did in a particular EC; others use it as a tiny creative writing exercise. It's up to you, but the topic should be one of your ECs.</p>

<p>Don't know what you mean about "non-compulsory details."</p>

<p>About your essay, your music and film experience would probably fit the first prompt better than it fits the other prompts you mentioned. This is a guess, of course, since I don't know where you plan to take the suejct of "my music and film."</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thank you so much geek_mom! It really helped! About my essay, I'm planning to write about how music and film-scoring taught me values and virtues in life, and how I plan to use it with my future patients? It sounds a little corny, doesn't it? But, would that make an appropriate essay?</p>

<p>Thanks!!</p>

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<p>Sarah, if it will demonstrate who you are and what makes you tick, it's an appropriate essay. And it still sounds most like the first prompt you described. Good luck!</p>

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<p>thanks geek_mom!! Then, i'll be writing soon =)</p>