<p>For the mini-essay on your most meaningful extracurricular, what should the tone be? Are they evaluating your [creative] writing skills (beyond a grasp of the English language) like in the major essay? Or can it be a little more informational, providing them with more information about the EC that couldn't fit into the limited space provided by the CommonApp? Either way, I'll describe why it means a lot to me, but can I do it in a purely informational manner? Especially since there's more to it than the CommonApp will let me put.</p>
<p>I'd like to know about this, too.</p>
<p>You can write whatever you want, however you want for the short answer.</p>
<p>I chose to elaborate on Model UN. I didn't want to be boring and talk about all of my achievements, like I have won awards for best speaker, I have been given executive student officer positions, I have organized a conference, yada yada. I've held a LOT of positions at the numerous conferences I've attended, but I listed my three most significant positions on the activities sheet and wrote a very specific account about a single moment at a big conference. I doubt that the moment lasted more than three minutes! As always, I tried to show and not tell. But Model UN is pretty well known so I didn't have to explain a lot of things about it.</p>
<p>So my answer is if your activity doesn't need a lot of explanation (like sports, Model UN, newspaper, etc.), take the creative route, but if it is little known and needs a lot of clarification, approach the essay in an informational manner. Just remember that being informational doesn't mean it has to be boring. Hope I helped. :)</p>
<p>Oh, I've just thought: if you want to be creative in this short essay, go ahead. You can do your explaining in the "additional info" section of the app.</p>