Reply to Making up things in common app activities and awards

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Making up things in common app activities and awards"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious about wording for newfound interests:

If you say you are a birder and joined a group at a few state parks junior year, worked in an arboretum for the summer, is it a stretch to add in some seasonal volunteering with senior citizens (if only done for a few weeks)?

Thinking kid writes EC essay about this….[/quote]

Check Reddit. So many birding stories in college apps. It might be the new beekeeping so perhaps overdone?

Cicada carcass collecting is a really timely thing this summer.[/quote]

Birding is definitely the new hot EC. Will not work another cycle. 
My kids are at ivy/ivy+ and they did not have these trendy ECS. They both had non-school big ECs they had been doing since elementary schools and continued into high school. They also had school ECs that mattered to them , and community volunteering that mattered to them. One had extensive outside of HS intellectual pursuits, other had a small amount of that but had more musical pursuits outside of school. These were all opportunities pursued by them. And they are excellent writers and had top stats/rigor/got selective school awards from teachers, etc. They did not exaggerate any activity or EC. One cannot fabricate or plan ECs. Students who follow their genuine interests will have plenty to write about and be able to show impact. Students who have that plus true intellectual vitality as evidenced by LOR and coursework/stats will get in top places. 
[/quote]

Did birding work anyone this past cycle? Cornell (and Yale?) have large birding clubs....[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics