<p>Thanks for the responses! </p>
<p>Brownparent, that individual was referring to my EC list, not my stats. My GC and teachers have not, as far as I know, done recs for students like myself so I’m planning on giving them a questionnaire thing that CB has on their website and some guidelines. My counselor knows me very well, in a variety of capacities - at my school, counselors are legitimate ‘counselors’, not just college counselors, so he’s actually helped me out with a lot of my personal issues (or tried). I am very fortunate to be at a school with such kind teachers. </p>
<p>If my ‘activities list’ (which I presume will remain on the CA) covers the activities, is it a bad idea to write about the activities then? Is that best saved for a supplement? I guess I’ve heard people say to consistently communicate yourself as well as possible and it’s probably not a good idea to be redundant. </p>
<p>@95Carol, thanks for the tips! I’m trying some introspection but I am quite biased 
. Maybe I’ll ask people who know me to characterize me. I want to attend university in the US so I become a well educated and cultured individual who is prepared intellectually for future challenges. I don’t think my country does a good job of liberal arts study and if I attend UG there, I will probably have to do most of my studies independently. </p>
<p>I get what you mean by ‘all over the place’ - such a resume is kind of disjointed. I have multiple passions and interests but ultimately (this sounds very silly), I want to be in a position where I can successfully push for social change and contribute to scientific advances. I am an ex-pat from India and the situation there is very depressing. I just don’t whether those are things worth talking about/that I can talk about without sounding trite. </p>
<p>I think the difficult part of the college process in America is that they ask you to define yourself, before you know who you really are!</p>