<p>Ya! Thats the way to about those!</p>
<p>The Common App seems broken - it won’t let me log back into my account or reset my password! %#@&)(%&#)@(%&@#%</p>
<p>adrivit..i ain’t a bit offended. but as u shud know, i posted the question here AFTER i tried googlein for the free USNews rankings for finance.cuz the rankings businessweek provided seems A LOT different from what usnews is giving..</p>
<p>You can list activities on the Common application, however you only list the activity, years, and position. For all of you putting Community Service on your app, like me, are you describing what you did? If I want to, how long can the additional info be (if I upload a document)?
(I mean I’m not going into great depth and the community service isn’t random…it’s just major things I did at one or two places).</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>A few sentences of description.</p>
<p>MODERATOR NOTE to " Extra curriculars on application?" thread:</p>
<p>I’ll merge this thread with: CA Q&A sticky thread.</p>
<p>Question: I am applying for Computer Science as my major. However, since Computer Science is technically engineering, will the colleges look at the other science (physics, chem, etc.) also? Or will they mainly just care about your Computer Science grades?</p>
<p>Winston u tried posting this in the thread for the majors??</p>
<p>It doesn’t really matter what u major in jacobe. U can be a nerdy engineer from birth but end up doing history … and all marks count, for colleges like MIT maybe science is more important, but all grades matter!! And u don’t need to have comp sci for doing that major coz i intend on taking com sci major but i don’t have comp sci for the past 2 yrs! So no worries!!</p>
<p>adrivit,thank you for asking, i got the full list from JimmyC after i posted a new thread in college admission.lol..i’ll still be posting in this thread cuz i will have a lot of problem related to commonapp..hope u could give a lil help when it comes.</p>
<p>Yup sure!! See … didn’t I tell ya other threads would help you in a jiffy??</p>
<p>In filling out the EC essay, D wants to discuss 2 of her ECs - not one as the directions indicate. They are both very important to her - a sport and her instrumental music. She wold like to discuss how despite their obvious differences, she approaches them similarly and gets similar “psychic” rewards from them; i.e. individual best leading to successful group effort, etc.
I’m getting stuck on the not following directions thing but she says she can’t decide which to talk about! Any advice?</p>
<p>To follow “instructions”, she has to stick to the “mostest” important to her. and those two different ECs and their rewardings can always make for an awesome essay if that brings her personality pretty well.</p>
<p>thank you guys.</p>
<p>woody: Your daughter should absolutely positively no-doubt-about-it FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS. Technically, if you do elaborate on two, you would also be elaborating on one. Still, I recommend that she elaborate on just one.</p>
<p>This may sound like a stupid question but I’m going to shoot for it anyways.</p>
<p>How should I start? How do I start to imput information on the online application?</p>
<p>And how long does it take to fill out the entire application not including the essays?</p>
<p>It takes at most an hour. You go to commonapp.org, register, and then fill out.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if this belongs here, but I would really appreciate it if you guys could help me out. On the Stanford Supplement, there is an area where they say to answer in two lines or less, yet they give a 300 word max. I wasn’t confused until I read the Stanford thread, and they seem to think it means to use the entire 300 words because the format might be different when Stanford gets it. I was under the impression, though, to only write two lines in the givien space, especially since I don’t think any type of formatting would fit 300 words in two lines, but who am I to know? I was just wondering if anyone could determine if it’s 300 words or the two lines, because at this point I’m leaning towards the two lines. I’m really sorry if this is a stupid question, but I’d rather look stupid in front of you guys, then to a Stanford admission officer :)</p>
<p>They want to make sure you’re not doing a crazy long thing. Just do two lines. Just make sure those two sentences aren’t equal to 300 words.</p>
<p>They’ll appreciate your conciseness.</p>
<p>2 sentences = 300 words … that’s some mad, mad writer!!</p>