<p>I started filling out the Georgetown App, and got a little confused:confused:
So, I wanted to ask serveral questions to all the CC experts out there!</p>
<p>Here is my list of questions:</p>
<li><p>Where they have the activity grid, it says to list your āschool activities.ā Does this mean that you canāt list your out of school ECs? For example, Iām a member of a tennis club, but can I list that?</p></li>
<li><p>Where it says list your āspecial talentsāā¦ Are you supposed to list awards, such as academic honors, you received?</p></li>
<li><p>Where can you list your summer activities such as summer school?</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Thatās allā¦ Thanks so much guys! I can be clueless some times.
Iād appreciate your inputs:)</p>
<p>1) I am unsure about question one. For my application, I only listed high school activities. I will talk about listing non-school activities later.</p>
<p>2) I listed talents and skills in my application. That is, I listed the skills and talents I thought I possessed, and provided a terse qualification. For example: Talent/Skill: Aviation (Recreational Pilot's License) Talent/Skill: Web-Design (Founder/Owner of Web-Design Business) and so on in that fashion. The aforementioned talents and skills were actually listed on my application. You may liberally interpret what your talents and skills are, but you must provide some sort of justification for its uniqueness or your level of accomplishment in it. Exercising intuition is advisable in this area, as you do not want to write "good at walking" and such.</p>
<p>3) I advise this for every student applying to an elite college: provide an activity resume. This resume should emulate the table provided on the application, but should include activities, hobbies, talents, jobs; thus, it need not be school-related. </p>
<p>DO NOT construct the resume as a job-resume. Construct an actual table in Microsoft Word, list important activities, and describe them. This allows you to elucidate on what responsibilities you had or what you accomplished. It also allows you to further elaborate on the awards you earned in the activities you listed on your application, since the provided table is not generous with space.</p>
<p>For the skills/talents question, for example, I wrote:
Debate (Awards listed on sheet 1B) (1B is the activity sheet)
The activity sheet, then, contained a table with the activity, debate, a list of awards, and a small description of my responsibilities and such. </p>
<p>If you send me a private message, I can send you a copy of my activity resume.</p>
<p>as far as school activities, I plugged in non-school activities, or at least one non-school activity: horseback riding. It was my main (on hour basis) activity throughout high school and I think it deserved to be highlighted.</p>
<p>as far a summer activities, I think last year we had a question that asked what meant the most to us, it could go there or in a separately attached resume, which is what I did. </p>
<p>etc. I also had a clubs listing, and an "extra-curricular schooling" list, "athletic accomplishments" and other. I have a variety of other good formats too, if you're interested.</p>
<p>hey manderz1 - thanks for your comment:)
when you attached a resume to your app, how did you indicate it on you actual application?
where could you write "see resume" or something like that?
Also, may I ask if you enrolled at gtown?
I appreciate your help!</p>
<p>I simply attached it. I made notes on my school activities grid for hours and such, and then under the awards/accomplishments wrote "see attached"</p>
<p>I did enroll. I ended up only applying there (I got in EA) because I loved it so much and I knew that even if I got into any other school I'd still end up there.</p>