<p>I am surprised that Princeton only gives you 10 spaces to write your award/honor/leadership/community service/extracurricular activites. I mean I have like over 80 GOOD items all together, I don't know what are teh best ten choices.</p>
<p>Please help me rank them in decreasing importance:
award/honor
leadership position
extracurricular activity
community service</p>
<p>Hmmm...I distinctly remember awards/honors being separate from community service/ECs (for reference, I did the online app). The latter are limited because you're supposed to pick the ones most important to you. Check the online app and see if it's the same (I don't believe they've put out the new app yet, but just in case...)</p>
<p>puddinggirl, have you ever read the book The Truth About Getting In, by Katherine Cohen? If not, she introduces what they call a "brag sheet" which is basically a detailed resume of all your EC activities, community service projects, athletics, summer experiences, and employment. If you can get your hands on this book, I HIGHLY recommend doing so... it will give you the format and information for this sheet so you can send it along with your application since Princeton's section has limited space. </p>
<p>Even one of the admissions staff persons from Yale practically begged students attending a pre-college workshop to send the sheets because the adcoms like the detailed information about each activity. If you are unable to buy or borrow the book, just PM me and I'll send you my brag sheet so you can have the format for your own information. </p>
<p>also, a general question for all college application: when I state that I have bababa.... awards, bababa community service, and bababa other good things, should I sent in copies of all my certificate, pictures of my trophies or medals to prove i'm not lying. If not, how will the college believe that I did receive such and such honors?</p>
<p>No. There's no need. There's a certain code of honor you're generally supposed to abide by when applying to college (i.e. only putting down what's the truth and verifiable), and adcoms accept your application as fact. You actually do a little signature thing where you say as much.</p>
<p>if i remember correctly, the online application allows you to add as many spaces as you need to include everything you want. if you're committed to using paper though, i'd go with the brag sheet that was previously discussed. however, i'd also caution against including as many as 80 activities, even if they're "good" activities. while its great that you've done so much, you don't want to send across the impression that you're all over the place with your commitments and aren't really focused on one or two things. especially if some of your accomplishments overlap (i.e. state debate champion, and then national debate champion), i'd try to cut the list down just a bit. i'd think once you get past a certain point, adcoms stop admiring how many different things you do and start wondering if you could've gone farther in a fewer number of activities. just my two cents. best of luck wherever you apply to.</p>
<p>School Activities:
National Honor Society
President (12)
200 Hours
Organized clothing drive
Student Countil (9, 10, 11, 12)
President (11, 12)
60 Hours
Raised $25,000 for Red Cross
Science Olympiad Team (9, 10, 11, 12)
Captain (11, 12)
60 Hours
Gold medal at 2003 State Competition for Fermi Questions
German Honor Society (11, 12)
40 Hours</p>
<p>And so on...with volunteering, outside of school awards, etc. It doesn't have to formatted this way. Mine certainly wasn't, but with the capabilities of the "Quick Reply"...</p>
<p>*The above activites do not represent my own ECs.</p>
<p>Check "The Truth About Getting In" out from the library. The book is written by Katherine Cohen and it discusses and give examples of brag sheets ad nauseam. Cohen is a very expensive college admission counselor.</p>