<p>I need help making one of my extra curriculars sound as great as possible. I've been attending guitar lessons for almost 2 years and I would like to include that to my list of extra curriculars but I don't know what to call the activity. I don't want to put guitar lessons because that sounds boring and stupid. What can I put as a title(I delayed some of my college apps. for this and I want to send them now =[)?</p>
<p>If you want to enhance it, try “private instrument instruction” (perhaps “under the tutelage of a world class artist?”), but in reality it is naught but gilding the lily.</p>
<p>There will be those with a decade or more of serious instrumental study, so don’t go making yourself crazy.</p>
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<p>You can go crazy with this, especially if you have a lot of room to talk about it. If you look up the word guitar on Wikipedia, you can talk about your advanced studies in musical history (or the history of music, to boost your word count). </p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry too much about what you call it though, in all seriousness. These guys know what you’re talking about and sometimes being straightforward is better than coming across like an pretentious airhead.</p>
<p>“Guitar lessons” sounds fine. Trying to dress it up would seem silly.</p>
<p>Most colleges don’t factor ECs into admission anyway. They base admission overwhelmingly on one’s stats. The few colleges that do factor ECs into admission are places like Harvard, Stanford, and Amherst that get such an overabundance of high stat applicants that the colleges can pick and choose from those outstanding applicants to create a well rounded student body.</p>
<p>Thanks everybody, I don’t have to explain it but in my app. it just asks to list the extra curriculars I have done.</p>
<p>So Guitar Lessons is fine? (this is also for the SUNY Albany supplement [AHH])</p>
<p>Guitar lessons are fine. Schools like SUNY Albany basically do admissions by one’s stats and state of residence. Even if you had no ECs, as long as your stats meet Albany’s requirements for your state of residence (i.e. whether you’re in state or out of state), you’ll get in. Warning: If it’s a rolling admission school, as the spaces decrease, it will raise the bar on what stats are needed for admission.</p>
<p>how knowledgable are the college adm. guys from your experiences? for example, if i put in “i figure skate at intermediate level”, or “i skate at novice level”, do you think they can really tell the difference? do they know it takes me6 years, or 9 years, to get to that level?</p>
<p>SUNY Albany is going on rolling admissions. =/. AHHHH lol. Thanks.</p>