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That’s easy, she writes about it in one of her essays. I think making the Hernandez activity list is a useful exercise and we gave it to the GC to use as she please, but my youngest felt that the little boxes on the Common Application despite their inadequacy didn’t really needed to be added to. They covered the medals and awards that he didn’t write about, it listed that he was concert master of the freshman orchestra, which he didn’t write about, and where it was inadequate he wrote the essays that explained what he did. If he’d written about other stuff he probably would have included the resume. In general I don’t think it hurts to add a LITTLE more to the standard application. Stanford says they won’t read it, but most schools say they will, and it’s only if you send too much that it will start to turn against you.</p>
<p>I agree with Hanna, students are horribly inclined to use those yucky big words instead of sounding like themselves. Thankfully my kids had different problems. Older son tends to excessive terseness, and younger son had to be taught to be less conversational. They both sounded like themselves in their essays without my help.</p>