CommonApp Future Career and EC Activities?

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>I looked at the CommonApp that was just released for 2009-2010 and have a few questions:</p>

<p>When it asks for future careers, it asks for you to search something. However, I can't seem to find anything that correlates to my field of study (International Relations). Is there a list somewhere that I can look off of? Everything I type in doesn't yield a match so I'm kind of lost...</p>

<p>Also, for the EC activities, there's a box that says to check if you plan to participate in college. Does that refer to the specific organization you are in or the general activity? For example, I'm in local orchestras playing an instrument but should I check that? Since I will continue playing my instrument in university orchestra but not as "that specific activity", if that makes sense.</p>

<p>Lastly, how do I upload an unique main essay for each school? In the uploads section? Do I just leave the actual space for the essay blank?</p>

<p>Thanks for any help!!</p>

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<p>For the question about ECs, I think it’s just asking if you’ll continue orchestra, not that specific one.</p>

<p>I was wondering about the careers thing too, nothing was getting matches for me either! Help anyone???</p>

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<p>Bump please, thanks!</p>

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<p>What you put down for Possible Career doesn’t have to correlate to your intended major, especially since both of them are likely to change. Just put down something you might be interested in; no one’s holding you to it.</p>

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<p>But does anyone have a list of things? When I search its hard to find ones.</p>

<p>Can you even name here possible careers that you know are on there?</p>

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<p>To upload unique essays, you will need to create a complete application for one school, then submit your application to that school, then replicate your application and upload a different essay, and submit your application to another school, etc.</p>

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<p>collegelookin: I just searched the letter ‘a’ and got like a dozen pages of results, so you may want to just search vowels or something to get a complete list, though you’ll obviously have repeats.</p>