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Feb 4, 2010

Scholarship / Info about activities - how to answer without making it into an activity list? [3]

Question:
Please give us some information about your principal extracurricular, community, and family activities, work experiences, voluntary service, and hobbies, in the order of their interest to you. For each, be sure to include any major accomplishments such as leadership positions, varsity letters, awards, etc.

1.How do I link them so that it won't be like a list of activities? How do I even start?
2.Should I only list down activities that are relavant to my field of study?

chat

Feb 4, 2010

Undergraduate / Common Application- Favorite Activity (I participated in Green Team) [8]

~~A few years ago~~ I believed I was environmentally conscious.
The use of past tense has shown that it happened in the past. If time is not an important part of the activity, keep it as short as possible

I ~~recycled~~ kept milk cartons if until I saw the ~~recycle sign printed on the side of the container~~ recycling bin on the way to the trash.

Keep your sentence short so that you could elaborate on more important thing.

chat

Feb 4, 2010

Undergraduate / About myself and undergraduate studies (a stable and challenging career) [3]

1. I don't think you need to state your name again in the essay.
2. The second paragraph, esp the beginning sentence may be too general. I don't know if it'll be better if you narrow it down and describe a little more

chat

Feb 3, 2010

Scholarship / Positive impact in the world through your studies -How to analyse this question? [4]

Well, thanks for the idea :)

chat

Feb 2, 2010

Scholarship / Positive impact in the world through your studies -How to analyse this question? [4]

The Question is,
"Tell us about how you might like to make a positive impact in the world through your studies at ***University."
so should I focus on what will be the impact? Or it's only a study-plan kind of essay?