<p>I know this makes me look super lame but I am the “scorekeeper” for both of my school’s JV basketball teams & spring track teams. I really want to put this activity down because it does take up 9 to 12 hours per week of actual work so throughout my high school years I have spent a lot of timing doing this. The only problem is I’m not sure where to put it. It seems weird to put it under athletics but I don’t know where else it could go. Should I just choose basketball as the sport & then add in the details that I was a scorekeeper? Also, if anyone is confused with what a scorekeeper does I basically just watch the game & record baskets, foul shots, fouls, turnovers, etc for basketball, & for track I have to record the top 3-5 people in each event depending on how many teams are at the meet & keep a running total for each team throughout the meet. </p>
<p>@NCGirl9706 I would list it under “athletics” because it sounds like it has the same time commitment as actual sports.</p>
<p>Also, you’re not “super lame,” haha. I found every possible loophole in my school’s athletics policy (which requires two sports a year), so I have literally been 100% uninvolved in any sort of athletics for 9 out of my 12 trimesters, haha. I got athletic credit for doing community service three times a week, lol.</p>
<p>It’s really an issue for the financial aid office, not admissions.</p>
<p>Should I factor in the time it takes to commute for my activities in the hours spent per week? It’s about 3 hours (round trip) and makes up an extra 15 hours. That’s a lot of time :-?? </p>
<p>@basic2015 You’ll want other people’s opinions on this, but I’d say no–it would make it look like you’re spending a lot more hours doing the activity than you actually are. If I factored in transportation to school for all of my school clubs, I’d have an extra ten hours a week on each of them. I don’t think you’re supposed to factor it in.</p>
<p>If it’s important that you mention how far away it was, you can maybe mention it in the given space… like “drove 3 hours to do ___” or something.</p>
<p>@Ctesiphon you can request teacher LOR through naviance and then pretty sure your counselor will assign them to your common app account if you sync the two together, which you can do through naviance. we also use this at my school. agreed it does get pretty confusing.</p>
<p>Quick question: can they tell if you’ve stretched the truth just a little bit on the common app?</p>
<p>@Ibad96 I think it would depend on whether or not the information could be fact checked. If your guidance counselor or teacher recommendators say something different from what you put down, you could potentially be caught in a lie. I would avoid stretching the truth just to be on the safe side. </p>
<p>@tola2015 ah, just wondering. Thanks!!</p>
<p>for additional info, do you think talking about transferring sophomore year to a new school with knowing virtually nobody plus struggling with depression/other issues is too much? because that really brought down my performance in school…</p>
<p>@rllyrlyodd I would mention something about that… the additional info section is meant for students to talk about factors that affected their high school performance. Just make sure that you remain positive during this essay, and don’t make excuses for yourself - just explain that you transferred and were going through a kind of rough time, and that it affected your grades a bit, but you’ve managed to rise above it etc. etc. :)</p>
<p>Ugh, the activities section is such a pain in the butt. I hate having only 150 characters to describe all of my accomplishments in an activity.</p>
<p>Does anyone know an easy way to print a draft of the common app so others can review and proofread ? It looks like you can only see the print preview just before you submit. Thanks for any help. </p>
<p>@Musicmom2015 if you hit ctrl + p that should do it. However, you’d have to print each page individually</p>
<p>I hate that it isn’t printable until you are ready to submit. Dumb. I imagine there is a workaround beyond ctrl-p for each page?</p>
<p>@LAMuniv yes i was planning to- it really messed me up and i need them to know so thank yoU!</p>
<p>finished everything except the essays…and very minor misc things :D</p>
<p>Bump this thread. This thread will probably become flooded with posts in a few months.</p>
<p>bump, keeping this alive.</p>
<p>This might seem silly, but what is the main purpose of the essays? I’m writing about the perfectly content essay option and I was wondering if I’m trying to show off my writing skills, show off a different side or me, or show off a quality that makes me a good candidate (learning from a mistake, getting an award, volunteering). I know the UPenn supplement wants the quality aspect, but what about UChicago? Its prompts are really out there.</p>