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Building a Spike: How to Go From "Involved" to "Obsessed" in One Area

You've probably heard someone say you need a "spike" for college applications. Maybe a counselor mentioned it, maybe you read it on Reddit, maybe a YouTube admissions coach said it with the confidence of a person selling a course. The word gets thrown around a lot,

extracurriculars

Building a Spike: How to Go From "Involved" to "Obsessed" in One Area

You've probably heard someone say you need a "spike" for college applications. Maybe a counselor mentioned it, maybe you read it on Reddit, maybe a YouTube admissions coach said it with the confidence of a person selling a course. The word gets thrown around a lot,

extracurriculars

How to Write Your Activity Descriptions So They Actually Land

You get 150 characters per activity on the Common App. That's about one tweet. And in that space, you need to convince an admissions officer -- someone who's reading their thirtieth application today -- that this activity mattered and that you mattered within it. Most students

extracurriculars

How to Write Your Activity Descriptions So They Actually Land

You get 150 characters per activity on the Common App. That's about one tweet. And in that space, you need to convince an admissions officer -- someone who's reading their thirtieth application today -- that this activity mattered and that you mattered within it. Most students

extracurriculars

The Tier System: How Admissions Ranks Your Activities (Whether You Know It or Not)

Nobody in an admissions office is going to hand you a rubric that says "your activities are worth this many points." That's not how it works. But admissions readers do have internal frameworks for evaluating activities, and those frameworks function like a tier system whether they

extracurriculars

The Tier System: How Admissions Ranks Your Activities (Whether You Know It or Not)

Nobody in an admissions office is going to hand you a rubric that says "your activities are worth this many points." That's not how it works. But admissions readers do have internal frameworks for evaluating activities, and those frameworks function like a tier system whether they

extracurriculars

What Actually Counts as an Extracurricular (It's More Than You Think)

If you think extracurriculars only means clubs and sports, you're operating with an outdated definition -- and it's probably costing you. The Common App's definition of "activity" is far broader than most students realize, and that gap between what counts and what

extracurriculars

What Actually Counts as an Extracurricular (It's More Than You Think)

If you think extracurriculars only means clubs and sports, you're operating with an outdated definition -- and it's probably costing you. The Common App's definition of "activity" is far broader than most students realize, and that gap between what counts and what

extracurriculars

Why Depth Beats Breadth Every Time (And How to Prove It)

You've probably heard the advice a hundred times: join clubs, rack up activities, fill your resume. And at some point, maybe around sophomore year, you started worrying that five activities weren't enough and you needed eight or ten to be "competitive." That worry is

extracurriculars

Why Depth Beats Breadth Every Time (And How to Prove It)

You've probably heard the advice a hundred times: join clubs, rack up activities, fill your resume. And at some point, maybe around sophomore year, you started worrying that five activities weren't enough and you needed eight or ten to be "competitive." That worry is