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Blank Canvas - COMMON APP EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY



whomp123 6 / 34  
Oct 27, 2010   #1
URGENT! PLEASE HELP CRITIQUE SHORT ANSWER
Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences in the space below (150 words or fewer).

Leaves fall gently around me, rustling as they pile up into stunning collages of gold and red. They whisper a tearful goodbye in different voices to the already vanished summer as they flutter to the ground. There is a breeze that make ripples on a lake nearby that rustle the reflections of the trees, making it seem like a mystical blend of another world. The scene draws me deeper and a heavy cloud of nostalgia overcomes me. Nature knows this exquisite beauty will soon be drained by the harsh winter. The melody of Chant d'automne by Tchaikovsky takes me to this everlasting scene. Through ten years of piano, music has been a window to my every joy and motivation; it continues to teach me this form of harmony and take me to undiscovered places. To me, music is a blank canvas; there are so many possibilities waiting to be painted.
tomato 3 / 13  
Oct 27, 2010   #2
It seems like you aren't elaborating on the actual activity you are engaging yourself in. I know it has to be short, but the first five sentences had nothing really to do with your activity. It was nicely detailed but if I was an admissions officer, I'd like to hear more about how music impacted you and what you have done with it. The last sentence is niceeeeeee though.
theTalkingRice 5 / 15  
Oct 27, 2010   #3
actually the anecdote at the beginning is really quite relevant to the topic. remember that the admissions officers really just want to get to know you as a person, so you don't have to force yourself to answer every single nuance of the prompt. as long as you're describing something you do that affects you emotionally, then i think you're pretty much golden. And your essay does that exceptionally well
tomato 3 / 13  
Oct 27, 2010   #4
Sorry, I chose the wrong words. I didn't mean that it was irrelevant to your activity, I feel that you can use the space more wisely to expand on playing the piano instead of the scene the song created. Maybe you can intertwine a few piano terminology or hints in there that is relevant to playing the piano. Personally I have been playing the piano for 10 years too, but evidently yours has a special impact on you. Stick with the topic but maybe make it a little more unique.
iwantcollege 4 / 10  
Oct 27, 2010   #5
your writing style flows nicely and has great imagery, but i am unsure of the "extracurricular activity" or "work experience" in which it is elaborating on...
OP whomp123 6 / 34  
Oct 28, 2010   #6
Gah. I see what you mean. Should I just stick a few words in the description about music... or should I revamp the entire thing?...
doyin1 8 / 17  
Oct 28, 2010   #7
i feel like you need to focus more on describing the extracurricular activity.
the person reading wants to know about the activity.your imagination is wonderful but just focus that imagination on the extracurricular activity.
GOOD LUCK!!!!


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