<p>I've always enjoyed reading posts on CC, but now I have a question of my own that I would appreciate some help with.
I'm a senior this year at a small private school in the South and have been trying to formulate my approach to the common app. in how to present my activities and leadership positions.</p>
<p>I consider myself to be a very, very diverse person. This isn't a case where I'm trying to bloat my resume. I legitematly care and am involved in all that I do, because everything else seems to slow me down. I know schools look for both "well-rounded" and "focused" students, but I can't
help but feel that an outstanding/ very-successful activity is more beneficial in the admissions process. So, here are some of my activities/leadership positions, and I would appreciate it if some of you could offer your opinions as to what I should focus on or whether to just harp on all of them (most accurate answer I would suppose).</p>
<p>Leadership positions:</p>
<p>-Section leader in school band (10-12)
-Secretary Treasurer of music honor society (11)
-President of Student Council (12)
-Member of Student Council (9)
-NHS VP (12)
-Co-Editor of school newspaper (12)
-Will most likely hold positions in math honor society and music honor society this year as well</p>
<p>Activities:</p>
<p>-Sailing (teach sailing youth school in summer)
-Guitar/ trumpet (I play in a band [gig band-trying to put on benefit concert right now] and the school band)
-Writing (have won writing contests, Writer's Bowl team took 1st out of 56 teams, written for school paper/editor this year/making school's first newspaper website, 800 on writing section of SAT)
-Ebay (actively sell/buy on ebay for the past 3 years)
-fairly active community work (80 hrs)
-Tennis (9-12) - (take lessons, etc)</p>
<p>So, I've spent countless hours of my life doing all of theseand I love them all (I'd never waste time doing what I didn't enjoy). There some other things I like doing (painting, hiking, etc) but those just aren't as important to me. </p>
<p>So my question to you all is... Should I really try to emphasize myself as a "Renaissance Man" or should I emphasize just a few?</p>
<p>At this point, I'm worried that it looks like I'm just loading my resume, while in reality, I've had what I feel to be a very active and interesting life. There are a lot of other great experiences I've had but that's a whole other post. 4.0 GPA, good SAT scores, highly selective colleges, the works [the usual for CC :) ] </p>
<p>Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance.</p>