<p>ok thanks :)</p>
<p>For activities, there is only a drop down button does anyone know how I can specify what the club’s name is, should I write it in details?</p>
<p>Thanks,
simpleperson</p>
<p>Adding onto simpleperson’s question. Should I write a sentence or two about the club or just use phrases (aka how detailed should the details be)?</p>
<p>Where should National Latin Awards go?</p>
<p>I plan on having my Latin and Chemistry teacher write me recommendations. However, U Chicago will require an English Teacher’s recommendation. How do I set that up?</p>
<p>For activities:
How should one best approximate time spent?
For community service, should we legitimately just say “Community Service” and stuff the hours into one activity?
How do we title the activities that we do?</p>
<p>When it says parents marital status…what if your dad died and your mom married someone? Widowed or married?</p>
<p>^ wow I have the same question. thanks.</p>
<p>oh i think it’s widowed because after you fill out parent 1 and 2 (answer living or not living) there is a space for guardian, who is your stepparent?</p>
<p>Thanks dchow08, but I’m also looking for other people to respond specifically about UPenn and Northwestern or some other schools that they know about. If the student is rejected from schools programs like the M&T program at Wharton or the HPME program at NW, are you still considered for admission into the school for CAS or something? Or, if the student is rejected from HPME or the Wharton M&T program, is he/she also automatically eliminated from consideration for UPenn and Northwestern as a whole? Thanks.</p>
<p>simpleperson: I guess the Common App has changed this year. Last year, I think there was a drop-down button but you could also specify what it was. If you have to, there’s Additional Info, but are you absolutely sure that there’s no space for you to put the actual name of the club?</p>
<p>pyn: Yes.</p>
<p>toastmaster: </p>
<p>a.) Academic Honors.
b.) For UChicago, you need to ask a humanities/social studies teacher, and Latin doesn’t count. I was in the same boat as you are. I planned on asking my Latin and math teachers, but UChicago doesn’t accept world language teacher recs in the two required ones. But I knew that the Latin one would be good, so I asked my Latin teacher to write the Common App rec and also a supplemental rec for UChicago. I asked my math teacher for the Common App and one of the two UChicago required recs. I asked my US History teacher to just write a rec for UChicago. That covered everything. Honestly, if you just think about it for a minute you would be able to figure it out.
c.) It’s up to you how to approximate. I averaged, but I probably would have used the mode for other circumstances.
d.) You could do that, or you could put in Additional Info what the exact projects were. I did several activities for community service, and I said exactly what I did. But the way I did the extracurriculars was different. I basically remade the table for EC’s and uploaded that as a document in the Additonal Info section. I’m sure lots of people just stuff it in as one big thing. I don’t think the colleges really care too much about all the different projects you did, though.
e.) How do you title the activities? Well, if you are on the math team, you put “Math Team.” If you’re in the chess club, you put “Chess Club.” I never thought that people would ever ask this question.</p>
<p>Uhm yeah, there’s a drop done bar for extra curricular activities and then a if necessary, any details should I put the name of the club in details area?</p>
<p>This may have been asked before but how do the teacher recommendations work on the common app. You have to like search for your teacher and do they write the recommendation and send it in online?</p>
<p>dchow, perhaps I am not looking in the right spot for part e. If I recall correctly, there is a category for the activity, and then an area for position/awards and for any other information.</p>
<p>dchow clear me on this one — We can list 5 activities, of these can independent research and social service be a part? And if I have got say varied social service, do I put in just social service or say fill up 2 of the placed with the most important ones —</p>
<p>So — 2 ECs, indie research and 2 Social services … what say??</p>
<p>simpleperson: I don’t think it’s required to put the name of the club, but you can if you want.</p>
<p>john6391: This question requires a long explanation because there’s a lot to say. Look at the thread on teacher recommendations. You’ll probably fine everything you need to know. I think online recs are possible this year, but they’re not required. It’s a new addition to the Common App, I guess. In previous years what you do is you print out the form and they fill it out and make copies and send it to the colleges. Now, this won’t give you everything you need to know, but here’s the general idea
- For the common app, you need 2 academic teacher recs, so you ask them nicely and you give them a form to fill out and they write a letter of recommendation for you. Then they make copies and send them out to the colleges.
- Some schools require certain recs or they might specify certain teachers. For example, the University of Chicago requires a humanities/social sciences teacher and only accepts foreign language teachers as a supplemental recommendation.</p>
<p>toastmaster: Okay then. If there is no place for you to title your activity, then don’t title it, because you can’t. </p>
<p>adrivit: I thought there were 7 slots. You could just put the social service as one activity and then explain what you did in Additional Info.</p>
<p>and for the independent research?</p>
<p>Hi, i have an urgent question regarding the academic honours list and the EC list ):
- Prizes for research project (science and humanities) go under which list? Or do i list them in both?
- Prize for Odyssey of the Mind will go under EC?
- If one of my EC is an academic club, say astronomy club, and i’ve won prizes in national astronomy competition, do i list them in the EC list or Academic honours list? or both?</p>
<p>Thanks so muchhhh (:</p>
<p>i checked page 28 (just randomly selected one number since there are 38 pages - impossible to read all now ): ) and there’s this answer from dchow08</p>
<p>“If you won an award, put it in awards. You won an award, right? Then put it in awards. Common sense, really. For example, I was on the math team in high school. That is an activity, so I put that on the activity list. Now, let’s say, as part of the math team, the team won 3rd place at a statewide competition. That would be an award, so I would put that as an award. So on my application, math team was on my activity list and for awards I listed my math team award. Yes, honors = awards in this case.”</p>
<p>Yes but in the EC list they also left space for you to indicate position held / honours won. So w.r.t the information above, the math awards will be listed twice? In the EC list AND in the academic honours list. Or only once in the academic honours list?</p>
<p>Thanks anybody for the clarification..</p>
<p>thanks dchow</p>
<p>I am wondering what to if you dont know a date. For example under the activies sections it asks, you did this this activity from when to when. If we dont remember a date when an activity ended sophomore year can we just leave it blank if we cant find it?</p>
<p>wat do i put for possible careers if i want to be an investment banker?</p>
<p>adrivit: If the independent research is connected to something else you did, it doesn’t have to be separate. If you did independent research for the health club, for example, that can go under the health club.</p>
<p>confused_verse: Academic honors is more for the honors that aren’t for a club. For example, I was on the math team, and the prominent math team awards I won I put in the EC list, because they were part of an extracurricular activity. If, however, I was recognized as a National Merit Semifinalist or an AP Scholar, it would go under Academic Honors, since it’s not part of an extracurricular activity I do.</p>
<p>john6391: I don’t see how it’s possible to forget when you stopped doing an activity, but if that happens…I’ll let you use your common sense to figure that out.</p>
<p>Winston.C: You put “Investment banker” or if that doesn’t work you can try selecting “Other” and then put Investment Banker or you can just pick something else.</p>