Common App Question

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
1

Where do you put achievements/activities that aren’t necessarily extracurriculars? For example, something I did one summer?

Personally, I painted 2 murals in my town a summer ago (they’re not just pretty, their content is meaningful, and I had to get the okay from the town to do them so I’m pretty proud) and I don’t know where to put that on the application. I have an international art award and have taken the highest art classes at my school so I think that this third thing will make my interests clear. Should I just put this in the additional information?

2

I would still consider it an EC, even if it was only a 1-off/ 1 time thing.

3

Maybe you think extracurriculars are only school-related? Not so. What you want here is a small item about art, and all your art activities would go under that, school-related and not-school-related.

4

I fully understand ECs, I just wasn’t sure how to list this specific one since it was a one time thing. Thanks, I might do that.

5

use the additional space at the end of the common app