Obscure activities: making a webcomic

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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Hello,
Senior about to start submitting Common App this November.

So from the second semester of my sophomore to the second semester of my junior year, I made and self-published a comic online. I put significant time into the project, almost 7 hours a week for about a year. And it was actually pretty successful. I got 100 subscribers by the end of it. It might not sound like much but webcomics are a pretty niche thing and that’s better than most people get in their first year.

The thing is I’m wondering if I should mention the comic by name or not. I don’t want admissions officers looking online for it. There wasn’t anything really bad about it but it doesn’t represent my current skill. And I just kinda don’t want anyone to find my internet persona.

But if I don’t mention it by name. Will it look suspicious? Will they think I didn’t actually do it?

My other activities are:
Art = roughly 21? Topic of app essay. Also submitting portfolio supplement to schools that take it.
Mock Trial = 8? 16 in the heat of the competition?
Student Council VP = 2?
French Club Treasurer = 1?
Class Treasurer (before I won VP) = 1?
NHS = 1? (My situation with this club is weird and confusing btw)
Work: Cashier at Ice Cream parlor = 10 hours for six weeks summer 2019
Work: Youth Worker for County Government =
35 hours for six weeks summer 2018
Chorus = 1?

(You can stop reading now the rest isn’t crucial)&&&&&&&

I could put some other volunteer stuff I did. Just grooming horses and helping bake cakes at a local cake shop. All charity stuff I did was through student government.

My main passion is my art. Any free time, I have I do art. Even if I can’t do art, I look at art, I read art books, I listen to art podcasts, I think about art. And the whole reason I got into to art was because of comics. And I plan on starting a new one in January. This kind of stuff is definitely what I’m most passionate about.

Also I should mention I’m going for a math major. I know it’s weird how I have no activities related to that. But literally no one at my school liked math. My math teachers barely did. And I just didn’t see how you could use it recreationally. I hated math team in middle school. Now that I’m taking comp sci I can see how you can use math in pretty creative ways, but only in the context of computer programming. I still looooove math more than comp sci and I would love to just take 4 years of the toughest classes possible, it just doesn’t give me the urge to use it outside of class

Career wise I was thinking actuarial but now that I’m kinda falling in love with comp sci and I HATE studying, I’m thinking software engineer or something along those lines. Math is such a broad major I want to explore my full options once I matriculate. Still keeping my artist side hustle:3

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It fits very well inside your art pursuits. Put on the list, along with the years during which you published it. If you were working on it during freshman year, they won’t expect it to be at the same level as the work in your portfolio.

I think that while being self published, it’s not really an accomplishment, but it is an indication of the breadth of your interest in art.

Being accepted to a math program without indication that you’re really good at math isn’t easy. What math courses have you taken, and what were your grades?

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And yes, you need math-sci ECs when you state a math major. So, what colleges have you decided to apply to? Somehow, we get to this Activities section question, but don’t know your stats or targets. Skidmore is near Albany and strong in art.

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Geometry-96
Algebra II-93
PreCalc-93
College Calculus I(on campus at community college/early college student)-A, 100s on all my exams so far.
Taking Calculus II next semester.

I’m applying to liberals arts schools, much more my style. There is always a chance I could switch to studio art or double major. After all so many art people have told me to quit math?
Vassar is my first, Skidmore, University of Rochester (got a Bosch + Lomb scholarship)
Since I have to file a NCP waiver I’m not confident my financial aid will go through for private schools though. So SUNY Binghamton and SUNY Albany are definitely contenders. Scholarships would be helpful for SUNY’s since they don’t have much money to give out and the room and board is so high.

I don’t test well in math so my regents and SAT aren’t that good. Geometry-88 and Algebra-87. 690 SAT math score (was higher in practice) 710 ERW (was 670 so that’s the one I studied to improve yeah bad studying too late now)

96 / 100 weighted? average
overall took all AP’s my school offered (just 2 for juniors)
Top 7% of class

Here’s the story. My 7th + 8th grade algebra teacher was the absolute boom and she made me fall in love with math. My 9th grade geometry was absolute trash at math but I still loved her as a person and she would let me teach the class sometimes?. In 10th grade I thought my teacher was pretty dull guy. He also HATED the Algebra II Regents and HATED the course and also HATED the other kids in my class so there were just a lot of negative vibes. After leaving my absolute wonder of a teacher in 8th grade, I kinda started to question why I still liked math but I always just remember how fascinated I was her math class. No class ever intrigued me as much as that Algebra class.
PreCalc wasn’t as bad. Had the same guy as 10th grade but he liked that course way more and when he got to the Calculus he was really good.

Then Calculus!!! I LOVE MY PROFESSOR!!! We have such similar personalities and he’s soooo interesting to hear and he’s just adorable:3 Plus just CALCULUS IS JUST AMAZING AND DELICIOUS AND I LOVE AND I WANT MORE MATH. I WANT TO SEE IT TO THE END. I WANT TO SEE THE THEORY BEHIND. IM NOT GONNA DIE NOT KNOWING THE SECRETS. It’s kinda easier than my previous math courses because my algebra teachers were pretty tough and I already AP physics 1 and I can see the connections. (Can’t wait to take Calc-based Physics next semester it’ll make so much more sense I can tell already)

Keep in mind. There was no math team or robotics club or engineering anything at my school. Everyone either did theater or sports or art. And I wasn’t about to go trekking to other schools just to get something on my application when I had so many other interests.

Now that I’m at community college. I plan on tutoring next Calculus next semester and now that I’m getting into Comp Sci I kinda want to start a game project if I can get some peeps to help me.
Just to be clear still haven’t graduated HS

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Probably a good list of targets.
Just consider NOTtelling them a) that your love hinges on the teachers. Or that you love it so much but weren’t going to find a way to pursue ECs in the field.

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absolutely^^