I had a question about Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s scholarship. On the prompt page it says this: “Create a chart listing activities in which you have participated or actions you have taken that show your commitment to building a strong high school community by bridging gaps between economically, socially, and racially diverse groups.”
Is this asking just the activities that relate to “bridging gaps between economically, socially, and racially diverse groups” or all your school activities?
I would interpret it as just the activities that relate to that subject, and not all of your activities.
I see how the construction of the sentence might make you paranoid (like if you interpreted it as two separate phrases, for example “Create a chart listing 1). activities in which you have participated or 2). actions you have taken that show your commitment to building a strong high school community by bridging gaps between economically, socially, and racially diverse groups” but I think they mean something more like “Create a chart listing activities (in which you have participated) or actions (you have taken) that show your commitment to building a strong high school community by bridging gaps between economically, socially, and racially diverse groups”). I.e., they wanted to say activities and actions but there isn’t really a good single verb that covers doing both things at once, so they put two separate phrases behind each noun, but they are both relevant to the same phrase at the end of the sentence.
Plus, I think that if they wanted to see all of your activities they could just look at your main commonapp - it would make more sense to me that they want a selected list of activities+actions here so they can see the relevant things, rather than them wanting a repetition of all your activities + a selection of relevant actions.