summer programs on the common app?

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<p>should they go into the "Extracurricular, Personal, and Volunteer Activities (including summer)" section??????????</p>

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<p>Look at what the redesigned Common Application looks like after July of this year. This seems to have been one of the most radical changes in the Common Application in the last few years, how summer programs are treated. There will be an annual FAQ thread about the Common Application for the new school year after the latest Common Application is posted to the Web.</p>

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<p>if it's a college class that you are taking for credit, then it would go on the list of colleges attended.</p>

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<p>its a research program like RSI/TASP/SSP</p>

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<p>My son sent a 1 page activities sheet in addition to his application. It expanded on some of his activities where there wasn't room on the application. He also added his summer programs to this list with a brief explanation when appropriate.</p>

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<p>haha okay thanks!! i'll use the extra space to sent in an abstract of my researh i think</p>

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<p>is there another radical change to the common app? is there a link to this?</p>

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<p>I can remember when there was a clear place to list summer activities on the Common Application. My most recently downloaded copy of the Common Application (the version used this year) was less clear about where to list summer activities of the kind mentioned by the OP. </p>

<p>There will be one more change to the Common Application for high school students in class of 2010, but probably NOT for class of 2009, and that is a federally mandated change in how colleges ask for ethnic self-identification of students. The law will still be that colleges must ask, and students may refuse to tell, but the question format will first ask about Hispanic ethnicity and then ask about membership in "one or more" of five federally defined "race" categories. Right now, the Common Application ethnicity question is not in that two-part format, which will be mandatory for all college forms for applicants from high school class of 2010. </p>

<p>See </p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/441477-fastest-growing-ethnic-category-great-colleges-race-unknown.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/441477-fastest-growing-ethnic-category-great-colleges-race-unknown.html&lt;/a> </p>

<p>for more details, including links to the federal regulations.</p>