<p>hookem: No, colleges don’t care which application you use. You can either put “see resume” on the application or fill it in anyway just to show which activities and awards you find most important.</p>
<p>thanks!! but can any teacher(different from the ones doing teacher recs) other than the principal do the counsellor rec(we DON’T have guidance counsellors)??</p>
<p>Can you just not fill out the extracurriculars and “work experience” parts of the app and attach them as a “see resume” sorta deal?</p>
<p>e: also, this is so fcking annoying how they define the meaning of “work experience”.. I spent so many hours volunteering at a hospital and that doesn’t count as work? what the hell??</p>
<p>^^volunteering counts as extracurricular</p>
<p>yeah well i also have research internships at NYU that I didnt get paid for but received a ton of research funding…does that count as paid? I can’t believe that that doesn’t count as work.. will colleges at least consider unpaid interning as work experience?</p>
<p>^^i’m not sure, but I don’t really see the problem/why you’re frustrated? it’s not like you’re being refused credit for the time you spent…you’re just putting it under “extracurricular” rather than “work experience”…because it WASN’T work experience. Work experience is a steady job, volunteering and internships are things that you do outside of school for your interests, thus they are extra-curricular activities
It’s not a big deal if you don’t have work experience…</p>
<p>for this internship I work a 9 to 5 for 5 days a week.. so I do think it should count as work.</p>
<p>well it’s your decision, maybe you should PM commonappguy or wait til he answers, but I really do not think it matters at all…the hours you spend doing whatever would be included so its not you aren’t being credited for what you have done</p>
<p>is there some benefit to being able to say you got paid even if you worked just as hard? :</p>
<p>SAT: 2130
ACT: 33
Subject Test: 790 Math 2, 710 USH, 600 Literature. </p>
<p>I’ve sent all of these scores to my colleges, except Princeton. As a matter of fact, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and UPenn all except the ACT w/writing in lieu of the SAT and subject tests (UPenn and JHU have all my scores though). So in the test scores section of the common app what scores should i self report? </p>
<p>Should i just self report my ACT and subject tests? </p>
<p>Can I just self-report my 2 best subject tests? </p>
<p>or should i just self report all my scores? </p>
<p>what should I do? </p>
<p>edit: 2130 is my superscore.. so i would have to self-report all 3 dates that I took the test.</p>
<p>you have to be paid $ for it to count as work experience. on the common app. i think the common app explicitly states that or the site does. what’s the big deal? just put it under extracurrics and you can actually briefly explain it there too.</p>
<p>It has to be paid, period. Commonappguy has already addressed the unpaid internships. If you think unpaid internships were significant you should list them as one of yout top 7 extracurriculars or put them in additional info section (I think so, but more llike the latter, WHO has their EC’s as internships??)</p>
<p>bump anyone</p>
<p>Self-report all your scores. They’ll consider the best anyways.</p>
<p>Is it bad to have your short answer and your college essay on the same topic?
I was going to write about the same topic (a volunteer experience).</p>
<p>will if you took all three of those tests on the same day you have to report all three..</p>
<p>and I thought that Princeton required the subject tests even if you took the ACT…</p>
<p>I think you should do them all</p>
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<p>Hear. Hear. Learn to read a few pages of posts. That’s still WAY easier than doing the assigned reading at any Common Application college.</p>
<p>ah i got Princeton mixed up with Yale. Princeton requires 3 subject tests. Yale requires 2 subject test or the ACT w/ writing. i guess that solves everything.</p>
<p>how do you put signatures on an online form?</p>
<p>Putting your name in the indicated field of an online form is taken to be your electronic “signature” of the document. I think that is pretty clearly explained on the online version of the Common Application.</p>