<p>the common app is terribe for providing enough room for ec’s and their significance to you. have any of you at penn or that have applied to penn submitted resumes or comprehensive ec’s lists along with the paper app you send back to penn.</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I did my application online (no common app then) and I mailed them an activity sheet later. I think that they actually encouraged it on the app. Make sure if you do send it that it is helpful. For an activity sheet, give a brief description of the organization or activity and your role within it. You don't want to bog them down with information, but it is helpful to clarify some activities that they are not familiar with or that you can't do justice in a tiny, character-limited text box.</p>
<p>resumes are not a requirement but they are always nice :)</p>
<p>I don't think they spend too much time on the resume (just a glance) but it would not hurt!</p>
<p>Anyone know how long a good resume/activity would be? </p>
<p>Mines about 2 pages single spaced.</p>
<p>ok basically my only feasible ticket into a top tier school will be my ec's (specifically debate) how do i package it so i give enough detail without getting it bogged down, ill post it below, any advice?</p>
<p>Partial debate record:</p>
<p>National Honors
-One of only 18 debaters (nationwide) selected to attend the Team USA All-American qualifier</p>
<p>-Member of Team USA A-Team. (One of only five 1st team All-Americans)</p>
<p>-Represented America as Team USA’s 1st speaker at the Pan-American Championship (western hemisphere debate tournament held in Southern California, October 2006)</p>
<p>-Will represent America as Team USA’s 1st speaker at the European World Championship (held in Germany, February 2007)</p>
<p>-Will represent America as Team USA’s 1st speaker at the World Championship (held in South Korea, July 2007)</p>
<p>-One of the nation’s first 25 to fully qualify for the Tournament of Champions.</p>
<p>-Finished 5th out of juniors nationwide at the TOC.</p>
<p>-Two time national qualifier in debate (finishing 27th Junior Year)</p>
<p>-Invited to 8 round robin tournaments in 5 states</p>
<p>-Member of top lab at Victory Briefs @ UCLA 2006 and varsity member in 2005 (receiving a merit based scholarship to the camp)</p>
<p>-One of only 6 debaters (out of 300) to participate in camp-wide demonstration debate.</p>
<ul>
<li>National Forensic League speech and debate All American</li>
</ul>
<p>State Honors</p>
<p>-Washington state co-champion of Lincoln-Douglas debate.(first junior to with the 3A state title since 2001)</p>
<p>-First speaker honors at state (first junior to receive award since late 1990's)</p>
<p>-First Junior in history to win 3A title, Top Speaker award, and clear as top seed at the state tournament.</p>
<p>-Only junior from Washington state to qualify for "the tournament of champions".</p>
<p>-First debater in Washington to fully qualify to the TOC</p>
<p>-Only debater to clear at all three "Washington TOC bid tournaments"</p>
<p>-Received "top speaker" awards at numerous tournaments</p>
<p>-2nd at state in extemporaneous speaking (2006) 2nd (2005)</p>
<p>-3rd at state in impromptu speaking. (2006) 4th (2005)</p>
<p>-3A Washington state record for both impromptu and extemp state bids (8 and 6 respectively)</p>
<p>-Only junior in recent memory to win the University of Puget Sound's Charles Battin award for outstanding speaker. (Most prestigious speaker award in the state)</p>
<p>Team Honors</p>
<p>-Two time team captain</p>
<p>-Three time speech co-captain and two time debate captain</p>
<p>-First and only debater from my school to qualify to TOC or Nationals in debate.</p>
<p>-Four year varsity lettermen</p>
<p>-Selected to attend the national qualifying tournament all four seasons</p>
<p>-Voted “rookie of the year” for the 2003-2004 season (my freshman year)</p>
<p>-Voted team “MVP” for 2005-2006 season (my junior year)</p>
<p>I have also done a huge amount of debate volunteer work (500+ hours) [i go into detail there are 7 big projects, i also wrote my common app essay on debate volunteer work]</p>
<p>For ideas about organizing EC into a sort of resume, you could look at books like "Acing The College Application" or " Rock Hard Apps". They must be in local libraries or available used cheaply. It does take some work to present activities in a useful and clear way. Your guidance counselors may have advice? Good luck.</p>
<p>How about removing the "only" from your achievements? The admissions officers will recognize that being in the top 18 or 5 nationwide is an accomplishment.</p>