<p>The common app only allows you to share 10 activities but throughout High School I have been in 6 Music ensembles, 2 sports (but 3 organizations so I don't know how to handle that), 5 clubs, 4 other service project type things, and 1 job as a soccer referee. So what should I do? I've read other places to group things or add things that don't fit at the end however when I visted Lehigh they made it very clear to include EVERYTHING you have been involved in.</p>
<p>I also have 4-7 leadership positions (it depends on how things go these next few months with music honor society, pep band, and brass ensemble).</p>
<p>(1) If Lehigh allows you to submit a supplemental resume, do that.</p>
<p>(2) In order to fill out the extracurricular section, though, you will still need to exercise judgment. Figure out which activities can be grouped together, and which are less important and don’t need to be mentioned separately. (If I were doing it, I could probably cut your list to fewer than 10 items - without excluding anything!)</p>
<p>Before trying to group your activities, look at the ones on your list and make sure that they are all substantial and meaningful. If there are a couple clubs you were barely involved in, it is best to just leave them out. Other than that, I think you just have to group them. That’s what I had to do.</p>
<p>Bleh out of my list there’s only one club I was hardly involved in</p>
<p>If that is the case, I would group things together in the activities section and explain them in the additional information section. Unless you can group it with something else, I would just leave out the club that you were barely involved in.</p>
<p>Haha, I envy those of you who have “too much to fit in one application”… here I am stretching my 8 activities to fill 10 spaces.</p>
<p>Anyways, group your ensembles together; I grouped 2 different guitar ensembles (and music club) into one activity because both collectively show the same thing right? No idea about the rest though. I don’t know about Leigh, but I don’t think the admissions committee wants to scroll down a list of 20 different things, so just try to pick out the 10 things which really illustrate your character.</p>
<p>DS has the same issue with more than 10 activities. He decided to group some and write some into the ‘additional information’ section.</p>
<p>Everyone has more than 10. They define an activity as a job, volunteer work, clubs, sports, and so on for your whole 4 years. To list all of them individually would be boring reading and adcoms are bored enough already. </p>
<p>Summarize them and describe your accomplishments. Emphasize the things you are really passionate about. If you are applying to tech schools you may want to skew the list a bit toward the geekier. Make sure to give them specific things too, even though there isnt as much space. If you started a program or led a fundraisng effort that sounds so much better than just participating.</p>