Guide/05 Building Your Application
Activity Description Examples
36 Common App activity entries, each shown as a weaker version and a stronger rewrite within the real character limits, across jobs, family, research, sports, clubs, service, arts, projects, and competitions.
The Common App gives you 50 characters for your position, 100 for the organization, and 150 for the description. That's about one sentence to show what you did and what changed because you did it.
This chapter shows 36 entries across every kind of activity, each as a weaker version and a stronger rewrite, with character counts, plus the patterns that make the strong ones work...
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What’s in this chapter
- 1What the strong versions have in common
- 2Jobs
- 3Family responsibilities
- 4Research
- 5Sports
- 6Clubs and student leadership
- 7Community service
- 8Arts and music
- 9Projects and entrepreneurship
- 10Academic competitions
- 11Before you submit