Quality over quanity

Applying to College
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<p>How many EC’s are too many to list on your application? Should all club memberships be disregarded? At what point do EC’s go from “involved” to “padding?”</p>

<p>Should I include everything, or should I cut out some stuff?
How are my EC’s if I were a rising Senior? (I’m not, but I’d like to know.)</p>

<p>Leadership</p>

<li>Advisor to the Board of non-profit</li>
<li>Advisory member of Art Club</li>
<li>Founding Captain Varsity Science Olympiad Team</li>
<li>Mayor’s Youth Council Parliamentarian</li>
<li>Teen Court State Attorney </li>
</ol>

<p>Membership</p>

<p>Church Handbell Choir ringer, Church Youth Group member, Christian Fellowship Club member, Think Tank member, Strategic Boards Club Member </p>

<p>Sports
Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, Varsity Golf </p>

<p>Awards

  1. 1st place County Science fair: Technology
  2. Science Olympiad: 3rd place Regional Varsity Astronomy
  3. School student of the month
  4. 1st Place Tae Kwon Do Poomsae: 2008 State Games</p>

<p>Volunteering </p>

<p>School:
Clerical volunteering, Installed Wireless Cards, Repair of Laptops, Created and distributed handout on proper laptop usage</p>

<p>Community:</p>

<p>Volunteer with Mayor’s Youth Council, Volunteering with County Library,</p>

<p>Work experience:
Unpaid Intern with Community Affairs Department of City hall</p>

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<p>Take a look at the Common Application. You are only allowed to list 7 activities (this includes volunteer work). You can list up to 5 awards/honors in a separate section. There is an area where you can type in additional information, but I would not suggest packing that full with a list of extra EC's. Your unpaid internship cannot be listed under work experience, because the application explicitly asks for PAID positions. You could, however, put that as an activity. Hope that helps.</p>

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<p>^
Then should I only list leadership positions? Is it bad to attach an extra page? </p>

<p>Thanks for telling me about the Internship.</p>

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<p>You list the activities you do, and there's a section where you put any positions you got. That's where you put your leadership positions. Colleges give you a limited amount of space because they just want to know about the most important activities you do.</p>

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<p>a supplemental resume doesn't hurt. you can send them a resume with everything you've done in addition to the activities you listed on the common app. yes, list only the most important things on the common app but i think you have you a lot of quality activities that they would like to hear about. i think there's a link on the common app under the resume section in which you can attach a document.</p>