Help for the EC list

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<p>I am helping my S who is working on the application form. </p>

<p>We were wondering how to fill out the activity columns.<br>
For example, he has many activities associated with his instrument.
Then, should he put some of those musical activities separately in the first column, such as city orchestra, school orchestra, and other musical activites? Or should he put all those under one activity of "violin" or "orchestra", and then describe the details in the rightmost column? </p>

<p>If he does the first way (putting three most significant musical activities in three different rows), then some of his musical activities, say school orchestras, which are less important than his debate club, would come below the debate club (according to the order of significance). Separating these three musical activities doesn't look good to me, though.</p>

<p>Any advice? Especially for those who had several activities under the same category (for example, science Olympiad, science bowl, university lab intern under the category of science), how did you do it?</p>

<p>Also, did you, who had applied, all have the award/honor section filled?
Things like NHS, National Merit, Cum Laude society seem a kind of default for HYPS applicants, and wonder what other things people got.
Is there something that applicants often miss although they can go under the award/honor?</p>

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<p>I'm not sure there's a right or wrong, but I would do it the first way: list each activity separately in order of significance. Or, you could do it in groupings by similarity to avoid splitting up the musical activities. I think that if you did this, the essays would still make it clear enough which activities were most significant to your son.</p>

<p>Hmm... for award/honor, I'm not sure what to suggest. I was involved in music, so if there were any titles or awards, put those in. I had Most Valuable Player, Freshman of the Year, etc. Maybe if your son was accepted to a state or half-state orchestra, that would count as an honor. I'm not sure on that one, but it feels like an honor to me! I could definitely see that as being an activity instead of an honor.</p>

<p>Any Science Olympiad awards, like 2nd place in Rocks and Minerals or 1st place in Health? Those are valid... I put those in mine.</p>

<p>Can't think of any more at the moment =/ college applications was 3 years ago for me... now I am a happy Stanford student =] Good luck!</p>