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[quote=Anonymous]To all the "you can't show that activity to a college" posters: This is why you work with your kid on writing skills so he or she can express eloquently why an activity is a passion. Don't push a kid who cooks or takes guitar lessons out of love for those things to spin their wheels in extracurriculars solely for a college application. It's OK if the kid isn't a Nobel-novelist-level writer; what matters is being able to form and express thoughts about why the activity matters to THEM.

Like an earlier PP said, admissions officers like sincere and new things, different from the same clubs and competitions all over most applications.

And I posted this earlier, but, again: Applications have "tell us more about you" sections plus many have platform for submitting videos or other forms of "portfolios." It's fine to send a good video of the guitar player giving a solo "concert" or the potter can send photos of her favorite pottery she's made and captions to describe why.

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