<p>A quesiton about activities: if you play, say, clarinet, should you put Clarinet as one activities and then list the according ensembles/related things you do with it (wind ensemble, orchestra, teaching, lessons, etc.?) or should those all be separate. </p>
<p>Also, where would be an approriate place to put school exchange programs?</p>
<p>I have found a category in the EC dept. for Foreign Exchanges (having looked for it myself). My question about that is, for the hrs. per week, what do you put there, having been somewhere else for 3 weeks/hosted for 3 wks?</p>
<p>2nd question: What do I put in the score section for APs I’m taking next May? It keeps pointing out their blankness.</p>
<p>3rd question: Do teachers write you rec. letters apart from the forms? I’m sure this has been asked before.</p>
<p>ellisescara: It doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>cb3930: I would put it all under ‘Clarinet.’ I don’t know about exchange programs.</p>
<p>Kaznack:
<p>Thanks for the response dchow08. However, a lot of the information I have won’t fit in the little box for description/positions held and whatever. Should I just say ‘‘clarinet’’ and use the Additional Information box to fill in the rest, or write about in the short essay…I’m confused</p>
<p>Only put the most important stuff–that’s why it’s a small box. You can write about it in the short essay if you want, or in the Additional Info. Just try to keep it to a minimum.</p>
<p>What happens if someone does various projects/fundraisers for them through a club? I’ll put them under community service under activities but how would I explain what I have done, aside from an essay? If I can only list one or two projects, but not them all, would I just write this in the additional info?</p>
<p>You could if you want and there’s no other way to do it. If I were you, though, I’d probably just put the club. For example, you can put “Key Club” and not have to explain all the different volunteer projects/fundraisers you do.</p>
<p>In the Common App online is it required you enter all you SAT score or can I put only my best score.</p>
<p>It gives multiple lines for math/CR/W scores and the date on which you took that SAT. I think it asks for all, but colleges will only consider the highest you received in each section.</p>
<p>Does it have to be under 150. If my essay is like 170, will they actually care?</p>
<p>They do! Plus 5 is OK but 170 isn’t maybe … and 20 words is easy to cut! Try!</p>
<p>is 559 words ok for the main essay?</p>
<p>When do colleges typically release the supplements to the common app?? I’m getting tired of waiting! :)</p>
<p>First, I may not understand what “academic honors” are. At my son’s high school, each teacher has the option to name the “top” student in his/her class, who may or may not have the best average in the class. I know that is an academic honor. Son has never gotten one of those certificates.</p>
<p>What else is there? I guess our high school has an honor roll of sorts - at the end of every 6 weeks a typed list is put on the wall outside the office - that’s the extent of the publication. Is that an 'academic honor"? Seems silly to list it, as the adcom can tell by looking at your transcript if you have good grades or not. </p>
<p>My son did earn an Academic Letter sophomore year, for which he had to have a certain GPA. Is that an Academic Honor?</p>
<p>Isn’t NHS an EC?</p>
<p>What about being an AP Scholar? He’s got 4 more exams to take next year, so I don’t know if he’ll be an AP Scholar with Disitinction, but he’ll for certain be an AP Scholar.</p>
<p>How bad does it look to have zero “academic honors”?</p>
<p>not bad provided ha has good grades and SAT’s.</p>
<p>AP scholar counts. So do any good AP scores. At my high school NHS is more of an EC. I don’t think people generally have that much to put for Academic Honors anyway. I certainly didn’t. I put the normal stuff–AP scholar, National Merit Semifinalist, my AP scores, and I put my National Latin Exam placements, but understandably if you don’t take Latin you wouldn’t have any NLE scores. I don’t think it’s bad to have zero academic honors–probably a lot of people won’t. But most people will put their AP scores there, so there’s something.</p>
<p>Thanks. I didn’t know that is where AP scores went. I assume you’d just put the 4s and 5s? What about 3s?</p>
<p>really? there was another section for AP scores I thought…</p>
<p>when do we find out about NMSF anyways?</p>
<p>Here’s another question - how about school-made-up honors? Ours has this program where you are a “Scholar Ambassador” if you take an extra year of math or science and perform X amount of community service. It’s a designation, not an EC. Where would that fit? It’s something that lots of kids get. It’s not a huge deal but if someone reading the app. is famliar with our Distirct and it’s NOT listed, they might wonder why the student didn’t get it.</p>
<p>alamode: Around October, I think.</p>
<p>missypie: I’ve never heard of that. It sounds like an academic honor–basically, any academics-based recognition you get that’s not for an extracurricular activity can count as an academic honor, so you can use that to gauge whether it fits there. But the college admissions people might not know what a Scholar Ambassador means, so consider either giving a short description (extra year of math) or including a short description in Additional Info.</p>