<p>My son is involved with many indepth involvement outside his school. Like writing a published research paper, many national awards for his Art work,indepth volunteer work etc... However I have a concern. why does Columbia the only IVY that separates activity done outside school and in-school activity? Would my son be at a disadvantage if he does not write on the in-school activity?
He basically is so busy with other activities that it was hard for him to get involved with things at his school. Plus he is not an athletic person. He joined several sports team but discontinued becaused he was not too happy.</p>
<p>Please will anyone comment on this. thank you</p>
<p>Nope....not at all....I Highly doubt they care whether it took place in school or out of school. As long as its meaningful and he's passionate about doing them. I hope you know that Columbia does provide you with an additional info section so you can explain anything you want there.</p>
<p>Although Columbia is not top-notch in athletics and it would be a plus if he was an athlete (especially for football which the lions suck at), not being one wouldn't negate your application</p>
<p>If you aks me, I'd say Extra-curricular wise, he's fine ;)</p>
<p>thanks so-authen, good to hear that. But on the application they only give you 3 spaces to list the out-side activity and it specifically say keep it within that list. A bit confused.
Also do you know if Columbia has good Classical dept? thanks</p>
<p>I have the exact same problem. My Ecs are focused outside school settings (mostly because there aren't so many things someone can do in my school). I thought to attach a supplementary page (as I did on my common app), but in the Columbia application says clearly "Please refrain from submitting additional information." and "Limiting yourself to the space provided". </p>
<p>oh, and I also have another space-related problem: If the name of the Activity/EC is too long to fit in the case, am I allowed to use abreviations?</p>
<p>No if I remember correctly you are allowed to submit an extra page it's just they don't want a CV on it or another list of extracurriculars ('additional information').</p>
<p>Read the instructions again to make sure. If you're not comfortable doing this what you can do is get one of your references to mention it, probably your counselor.</p>
<p>so if you have say four instead of three significant activities outside of school, could you attach an additional page simply listing that one activity? Same for an in-school activity, like seven instead of six. I don't plan on writing like ten extra or anything. Thanks.</p>
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so if you have say four instead of three significant activities outside of school, could you attach an additional page simply listing that one activity? Same for an in-school activity, like seven instead of six. I don't plan on writing like ten extra or anything. Thanks.
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<p>adding the extra ONE would probably be a bad idea....they WANT you to pick the most significant ones</p>
<p>as for adding the extra page you should only do that really if you have alot of outside activities and no inschool and theres no space for them or if you absolutely must elaborate on something but you should't do it just to add that one extra activity...it probably won't add anything to your application.</p>