Favorites and Essay

<p>On the supplement, it asks for your favorites. Does "Your favorite recording" mean music, or what?</p>

<p>Also, I wrote my common app essay about a person who has influenced me. Would it be bad if I wrote my other essay about another person who has infulenced me? I'll probably end up using a quote that that other person said as the topic for my essay. Bad?</p>

<p>Also, I wrote a 3 page resume for Brown and was thinking of submitting it with my common apps. I was reading a thread below, and people have said that is too long. My resume is very straightforward and is set up like this:</p>

<p>Sports:
sport 1 (years, time spent)
-award/detail
-award/detail
sport 2 (years, time spent)
-award/detail
-award/detail</p>

<p>Paragraph talking about everything</p>

<p>Sports:
sport 1 (years, time spent)
-award/detail
-award/detail
sport 2 (years, time spent)
-award/detail
-award/detail</p>

<p>Paragraph talking about everything</p>

<p>Repeated for each area (sports, band, community service, work)</p>

<p>I could trim it down, but then it is harder to read. As it is, it has a lot of white space next to the award and details section.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>"Favorite recording" is probably ambiguous on purpose, but it's generally music. Some people put an album, some put a song, some put a soundtrack, and some put something from an actual musical. It can really be anything, even a book on tape.</p>

<p>Three pages seems a little bit long. If anything, try to format it so that it has the exact same information but on fewer sheets of paper. If an AO sees one sheet of paper that is fairly full versus 3 sheets of paper with the same information spread-out, they will probably be more inclined to take the time to read the single sheet (if they had the choice) because it merely SEEMS like less.</p>

<p>Could somebody answer my second question?</p>

<p>Sorry I totally skipped over that one. I don't think that the approach of doing two essays on influential people is bad if you are careful of a couple of things. Firstly, be sure that the essays say enough about YOU while you are talking about someone else. I know that it seems like anybody with a brain can derive what type of person you are from your interactions and descriptions of another person, but sometimes it doesn't come across as clearly as you think it does. Also, as long as the essays are different enough that they don't seem redundant, I think you'll be fine.</p>

<p>I think the idea of using a quote by the person is really original. I'd say go with it, and good luck.</p>

<p>A resume should not be 3 pages. You'll **** people off. I (now a freshman in college) was applying for a fellowship a few months ago and went to the career center of my school where the lady explicitly told me "you must keep your resume to a page. That's how professional adults do it - and you're only 19 years old! Trim all that fat off it!" (mine was a page and a half).</p>

<p>Yeah in our med class, we take a few weeks actually learning all this resume, interview stuff.
And our teacher drills it into our heads that resumes MUST be 1 page.</p>

<p>What if what you send in isn't a resume, but rather a list of community service activities? I have a LOT of really random and unique community service stuff that can't be qualified as one activity on the EC section...so I was going to send in one page about that. It won't have anything about my ECs though, so it's not really a resume but more of a...who knows. Is that OK?</p>