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[quote=Anonymous]Question about creativity in the 10 ECS/common app activity list....

My kid is seeing advice online from former AOs to inject personality into the 10 activity descriptions: not to be so straightforward if it's a sport or activity that the AO obviously knows what it is (Captain of Track or Yearbook Editor). They said the descriptions should show a bit of who you are. The argument is that this is the first thing AO reads about following the applicant's biographical info, and before they go to essays, so you need to grab them and they aren't impressed by a boring description of Model UN or Speech and Debate and your "impact".

What is the collective view of this? My kid said a former Stanford AO said a successful HYPSM applicant used the below description for Yearbook editor instead of something quantifying leadership and impact:

Yearbook Editor
Fairy godmother extraordinaire: Honoring an obscene amount of Photoshop facial edit requests since 2023.

I think it could work for 1-2 activities.[/quote]

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