How to (correctly) write your Activities on the Common App

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In this video, I describe the top 5 criteria that you need to include in your activity list on the common app. There is a difference between the activity list and the honors section. This video covers only the activity list and the additional information section.
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Disclaimer: These are only my experiences and personal opinions, I am not a professional educator.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:10 5 criteria needed for your activity lists
00:25 Type of application differences
00:53 First steps: Activity Sheet
01:19 3 Criteria to make Activity sheet good
01:56 Activity Sheet breakdown
03:29 Translating Activity sheet into Common app
05:33 Importance of weaving a thread in your app
06:26 Activity list and essays similarity
07:06 How I weaved a "thread"
07:30 non-covid thread
09:30 Why "threads" are important
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Пікірлер: 25

@azmeecruz1080 Жыл бұрын

Best EC video out there! You encompassed all the points I’ve read and heard from over 15+ websites and videos combined. Great work!

@yahiaosman8938 2 жыл бұрын

Yessir, keep it coming

@icwang9552 3 ай бұрын

Thank you. Very helpful

@ohohjournal5828 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@unidentifiedperson167 Жыл бұрын

Hii thank you so much for your videos youre amazingg! On a section of northwestern specific application in common app theres an option for you to upload your activities “resume” do I not need to do that since all my activities are already listed in my general common apps section? Or is the resume activities part something else?

@vincent_yang Жыл бұрын

no need to upload your resume! Unless you have work experience separate from your activity list, I would leave that blank

@markus_park Жыл бұрын

Wow! I’ve never been to Intel ISEF but have been to Regeneron ISEF, haha!

@vincent_yang Жыл бұрын

That's amazing!!

@parth4295 Жыл бұрын

Hi , i have a question for you, i have absolutely no honors because of covid and some other reasons and i have only 7 activities in which i have participated but i have spent a lot of time about a year or 2 on each of them . So will i be able to Get into a Well reputed college on the Basis of SAT scores , GPA and my EC's . i'm expecting a GPA anywhere between 3.4 - 3.7 and For my SAT scores , i took 3 mock tests and scored 1410 , 1380 and 1490 respectively ( by just preparing for 3 weeks ) . i'll give SAT next year ( am in 11th rn ) and i'll try to score above 1500 , so will i stand a chance for getting admission in a well reputed college ?

@vincent_yang Жыл бұрын

It's hard to say if you don't have any honors, as the activity list is only supported by how good you are in each field of EC's that you have, but it's hard to tell in the college admission process so I say give it your best shot! Your SATs seem to be doing fairly well, the only issue I can see atm is your honors so, perhaps try building on that before you apply for colleges!

@mirukuun Жыл бұрын

6:45 literally made me have a breather. I was SO worried abt my essay speaking abt my experience with video games n game development when most of my activities are abt coding 😭

@meetjesse8380 Жыл бұрын

Is it possible for me to get your Activities sheet as a template or guide pretty please bro ! :'-{

@fabriciovilchez9329 Жыл бұрын

If i practiced swimming for 2 years, how do they know i did that activity? I do not have any certificates or something like that.

@vincent_yang Жыл бұрын

Certificates don't matter as much as you think, as long as you have awards that will suffice. However, if you don't have awards, the second best thing is to literarily say on the activity list that you consistently swam for 2 years, and that in itself is an accomplishment. However, unless you do something with that ( for ex teach local low-income kids to swim) your 2 years of swimming itself is not nearly as powerful of an activity if you get what I mean.

@justin234 Жыл бұрын

Hello , What are my chances of getting cs in undergad. Sat : 1420(expected) GPA : 3.6/4 IELTS: yet to give APs : none coz of different curriculum Extra curriculars : • Learnt 6 programming languages, proficiency in 3 of them. • partnered with an educational site to make and maintain their app and website. • App UI development • Website development • simple User based game AI development • Art ( some certificates) Honors: • not much just some art competitions • State level Spell bee ( a vocab competition) Think i can fly off to USA with these?

@vincent_yang Жыл бұрын

Possibly! Again, I'm not an admissions officer, but I do think you might need a little more honors in terms of coding, why not join some coding jams or perhaps hackathons, that way the admission officers have some metrics to vouch for your skill. Or potentially you could include the analytics of your Apps on your activity section on the common app ( i.e. how many people use your app, how long they use it for etc.) Just some way to show that you're good in that field!

@justin234 Жыл бұрын

@@vincent_yang I see . Thanks a lot ! Great advice there. Will update you in on the results;)

@sirunfunnyiv7600 Жыл бұрын

@@justin234 good luck man, coming from Switzerland!

@justin234 Жыл бұрын

@@sirunfunnyiv7600 Thanks man

@JinaMukherjeeF 7 ай бұрын

@@justin234 what r the results

@jd-lk7wz Жыл бұрын

8:48 A low A…seriously dude?

@YardDutyBilly Жыл бұрын

bro on god 💀💀

@gmh471 Жыл бұрын

Each activity needs to be a "niche"? Honestly, what does that even mean?

@vincent_yang Жыл бұрын

Great question! Each activity should be as specific as possible essentially, Instead of saying you're a coder, say you're coding projects for the visually impaired and blind, instead of saying you're a CS major, you can say you want to specifically focus on machine learning and deep neural networks, or robotics etc