Common app questions

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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Hi – where is a good place to get answers to what goes where in the Common App?

Some questions include.

  1. How can you tell which schools accept arts/music supplements in general and through the Common App.

  2. When is an activity a volunteer activity vs. community service?
    E.g – fostering puppies, fundraising for arts school? outreach programs at art schools, a HS club where you tutor people by Skype in Southeast Asia.

3). When they ask for a “position” on the activities what is good name that would sum up separate but clearly related community activities for an arts school. (being on the fundraising committee, doing outreach events etc.) == does “community service ambassador” sound right?

  1. Where do you put awards/competitions for music performance? As part of the achievement within the activities section? As an academic honor? Somewhere else?

Thanks.

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S22 is considering a music supplement as a non-music major. Every school handles this differently, but the answer to whether they accept such supplements can be found by googling the college name + arts supplement. On CA, some colleges ask whether student will be submitting an arts supplement (ie Carleton), while others do not ask and supplement is not submitted through CA, but either through portal, slideroom, etc. So from what I’ve seen it is school specific and best info can be found on college websites.

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