<p>Where do you write a family responsibility?</p>
<p>I'm not paid to do it but its something that fills up my time.</p>
<p>Would I put it under volunteer/extracurriculars and just explain that its a responsibility?</p>
<p>Family responsibility? </p>
<p>Like being the man of the house ? (I can relate to that one for what it's worth haha)</p>
<p>I don't think you can put that on a list necessarily but you could maybe squeeze it into one of your personal statements if you wanted to. Maybe subtly sneak it into a paragraph where you're discussing responsibility.</p>
<p>maybe the open ended question if they still have it</p>
<p>well, its a time-consuming family responsibility. i dont really want to write a story about it (and the open ended isn't available btw).</p>
<p>so if its something where i can write 15/hrs a week, then it should probably go on the list of extracurriculars, right?</p>
<p>I would say that if your 15 hours a week commitment is / can be be backed up with some sort of documentation then yes, by all means, put it in your E.C.'s section. However if this is not the case, than IMHO it would seem a bit ridiculous to just claim a family commitment.</p>
<p>IE: If the family commitment you're talking about is something like taking care of a family member who cannot manage on their own, then maybe that would work in the E.C. section since obviously that person would need a specific number of hours of care. If this were the care I would put something like "Responsible for facilitating the needs of family member "A" due to "A" having "X" medical condition "</p>
<p>But if it's like something where you have to run around and pick / up drop off siblings, etc I'm not so sure that would fly with an adcom...at least not in a list-able area of the application.</p>
<p>hope that helps.</p>
<p>there is an additional comments box (500 words) meant to accommodate info that applicants aren't able to sufficiently address in other parts of the app. you can use that</p>
<p>yeah poppin its exactly that (caring for a family member who can't care for himself)..and this isn't something i can really prove with documentation. i guess i'll put it under ECs and explain it in the comment box if there isn't enough room.</p>
<p>thanks for help folks.</p>
<p>ok feel free to use this space as a place to answer your UC application questions, cause i got another question :)</p>
<p>when you're putting in a course, it asks for a course title.</p>
<p>lets say you took Introduction to Statistics.</p>
<p>Is it better to write</p>
<p>Intro to Statistics</p>
<p>or should I just write the course titles until I get cut off, ie Introduction to Statist ....</p>
<p>I put "intro to political science" for one and then "introduction to sociology" for another. I figure they will get the idea and would rather have the course subject name than the "intro" part.</p>
<p>yeah (thanks for reply)</p>
<p>Family Contribution: Personal Statement, personal statement, personal statement. If you spend a good amount of time with these family responsibilities then it maybe it has had an effect on the major you want to study. It might even be a contribution you want to discuss.</p>
<p>Course Name: If you attend a CCC the application should pull the information for transferable courses from the assist database. If you are typing in course names then the course is either not UC transferable, according to assist.org, or is from a 4-year college or out of state university. The evaluators should know that “intro to Statistics” is introduction to Statistics. Make sure the department and course number match what the transcripts will show, e.g. stat 101.</p>