I attended a two week engineering program at a university over the summer. I already filled the 10 activity sections and am hesitant about replacing any of them. I asked my school’s college counselor and she said I could put it in the additional information section. Is this a good idea? I was thinking of just keeping it short and also saying I got to experience life on a college campus.
Thanks!
Hi.
A two week engineering program sounds noteworthy. I would replace it with something else that’s not that stellar like being member of a club, etc. If this two week program is the least noteworthy thing in your activities, I recommend you tell the person writing your recommendation about your two week program so that he can write about it and notify the ADCOM of the extra EC.
If the 10 other activities are really meaningful, and more meaningful to you than the engineering program, then yes you can put it in the additional info section.
I’d be dubious about anyone with 10 activities, all of which are so important that they had to be listed. Does each and every one of them say something important about who you are and how you are different from everyone else and what you will contribute to the school? Is it not possible to combine a few, like 'Various Volunteering" with several places listed and the hours consolidated? Admin wants to get a general picture of who you are and what matters to you, not see a laundry list of everything you’ve ever tried or expressed a short term interest in. If you can truly say, I’ve invested a lot of myself in all 10 of these unique activities, well that’s fine then. But you would be highly unusual in that respect.