Extracurricular and Personal Activities

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>I have a couple questions about this section of the application. It says on the application, "Please list your principal extracurricular, community, and personal activities in the approximate ORDER OF THEIR INTEREST TO YOU. These may include art, drama, dance, music, forensics, journalism, athletics, and organized or community activities...."</p>

<p>First, I guess this would be where you would include internships correct?</p>

<p>Second question is, does/should the first activity you list in that section, be the same "activity" you write about for the first of the three essays? (That essay is the one that asks, "of the activities, interests, and experiences you listed on the previous page, which is the most meaningful to you and why?")
So basically, does "of interest to you" mean the same thing as "meaningful to you?"<br>
I am asking this, because I wrote about one activity that I feel is meaningful to me at this point in my life. However, I had an internship that is really of the most interest to me in my life. Would this be fine? I was also thinking that I could rank this internship and the activity I wrote about for the essay the same, like 1a 1b. What do you guys think?</p>

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<p>anybody? are you guys confused by what I am saying?</p>

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<p>hmm i did the same thing cause i thought "of interest" and "meaningful" could be kind of different in meaning, but now that I read your post, I'm not so sure..</p>

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<p>i mentioned my internship in the extra-curricular section-so that should be fine. i wrote my essay about the internship as well; though you don't have to mention it first in order to write an essay about it.</p>

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<p>i mentioned it in work experience, but i mentioned my research in ECs.</p>

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<p>do you need to list summer stuff on the EC section since there already is a summer section? what about if i included independent research/internship in the awards stuff; do i need to list it again?</p>