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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From reddit:

It’s a bottom up process. List your ECs and then think about your experiences (topics which may turn into essays) and look for ones that connect, directly or indirectly.

For example, perhaps you played a lot of games and puzzles when you were young (potential essay) and now you are in a math club and tutor math (ECs). The connection between them could be how you think about math - that you see math problems as puzzles to be solved. So the theme could be problem solver.

This is a very generic example, but the idea is the same. It needs to start with you - your personal topics and ECs. Then categorize the ones that go together based on “connections” that you decide. There’s no right or wrong here as long as it makes sense to you.

See how many topics and ECs you can connect together - this becomes your theme. [b]And you may have more than one theme too, which makes you “spiky.”[/b] You may even be able to come up with a super theme that encompasses all your themes together.

Perhaps your spikes are all examples of how you engage with others. And then finally, tie it all to the major you want to pursue. (It’s ok if you’re undecided - just say so and then what your interests are.)

This is one way to make your application cohesive. You want an AO to read your EC descriptions and your essays and when done they know who you are - a goal-oriented problem solver who plans to use their education in Electrical Engineering to battle climate change through designing electric vehicles to be more environmentally efficient and cheaper for all.

Bottom Up Cohesive Theming:

Puzzles/Math—>Problem solver —>EE

Artist/Car Enthusiast/Robotics Team Leader—>Designing for efficiency —>EVs

Competitive Swimmer/Angler/Activist —>Goal-oriented—>Climate change, environmentally efficient

Engages with all—>maybe potential leadership/social skills to inform EV environmental policy could be added too[/quote]

Pointy - or spikey as you say- is when you have a profile that shows the applicant is largely  focused on one area of interest. It’s not multiple themes.[/quote]

No one is focused on semantics. In this example, the applicant is focused on engineering, but also climate change in the environment in the intersection of these issues and it flows through their extracurriculars and how they identify themselves.

It’s quite good.[/quote]

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