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

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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Hi! My name is Shadouw and I am currently a high school senior class of '22 at the time of this video.

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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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Attributions and Credits:
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[azmeecruz]

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

[mirukuun]

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 😭

[markus_park]

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

[unidentifiedperson]

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?

[fabriciovilchez]

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.

[parth]

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 ?

[meetjesse]

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

[justin]

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?

[gmh]

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