<p>I'm writing my brag sheet for my counselor.
To what extent do I have to display my achievements and interests.
Should I maintain some modesty or just show off my achievements?</p>
<p>For your counselor, give as complete a list as possible. The more info the counselor has, the better. </p>
<p>For the colleges, you might want to trim things down. For example, you might want to lump multiple similar awards together and highlight only the most significant. But the counselor's job is to help with that task and also to help you shape the best possible applicaition -- it would be a shame if the counselor could not do that because of lack of information due to your fear that listing everything seemed boa****l.</p>
<p>Applying to college is not a modesty test. List all of your achievements and interests.</p>
<p>Ditto Northstarmom's post. If you don't brag about yourself, nobody else will do it for you.</p>
<p>List all your stuff, but be sure that the activities you are most committed to don't get lost in the jumble! Colleges would prefer to see a kid who has a few interests that are well developed rather than a million things all over the place.</p>
<p>One school we went to had some good advice: They told us not to just list things - but to actually TELL WHAT YOU DID for your important activities. I can see why that is valid when you look at the EC lists on here. They all sound the same! The college wants to learn more about you - so keep that in mind.</p>
<p>So, for instance, you could say:
Co-Founder and Director, Summer Famous High School Theater Group, 4/06 to 8/06. Famous High School's first all-student run summer production, Murders in the Heir. Chose script; auditioned cast; procurred props, scenery supplies and costumes; built set; designed and printed tickets and programs; did publicity; scheduled rehearsals; directed the play; filled in for a missing actor. See enclosed program.</p>
<p>That sort of makes it come alive for them!</p>
<p>Hi all - new poster with a question about what to include about the ecs. My S has some significant achievements that are out of the mainstream and may be off the radar of some app readers and I'm not sure a sentence or 2 would adequately explain his involvement. I know some kids send in supplementary materials if they are musicians or artists and he is not in that category. However, he is featured on a few websites for significant contributions/achievements, and I wonder if it would be too much to make a page or 2 of excerpts which would more fully explain his involvement to those schools that accept extra material. Would that be overkill? Advice?</p>
<p>mcmom -- that would not be overkill, as long as the web sites you are referencing are legitimate sites maintained by real organizations with some credibility. My daughter submitted a 2 page (later edited down to one) resume of her dance training, awards, and performance and choreographing experience. </p>
<p>I am a great believer in getting it down to one page if possible, simply because you are dealing with busy people who are not likely to drill down through multiple pages to find information. So in any case, the first page needs to have the most important highlights on it.</p>
<p>Another poster on another thread mentioned organizing your brag sheet along the lines of that section of the common ap.. Then add in very short embellishments.</p>