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Skiing+college app...

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HarryPotter
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Going to apply to college next year and I was just wondering if you guys had put skiing on your resume, common app, etc...if so how?

Thanks
Dec 23 2011 5:59PM
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selkirks
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Doesn't belong on the Common App. Work it into your essay.
Dec 23 2011 6:01PM
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Jeffmnicholas
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if your an instructor is there anyway to use that in your common app or just essay?
Dec 23 2011 6:02PM
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selkirks
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Obviously that would fit. There is a place to put Work and other experience, essentially a resume builder. But just skiing recreationally--even competing individually--doesn't really fit unless you were on a team.

Everyone's different, of course. But I prefer to put things like skiing in my essay. Your Common App essay is supposed to reveal your passions. Skiing fits perfectly there. Obviously you don't want to be cliché, so there's some pressure to work it in nonchalantly. But I'm of the opinion that that is where it belongs.
Dec 23 2011 6:07PM
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Jeffmnicholas
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ok cool thanks
Dec 23 2011 6:17PM
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technique.
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you can put a hobbies and interests section on your resumes for college.

essay is a good place too
Dec 23 2011 7:34PM
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McSlay
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depending on how "seriously" you ski, or how important you feel it is to understanding you as a person, and if you don't want to do your essay on it you could write an additional information document about it so you wouldn't be so limited in terms of words... thats what I did

Dec 23 2011 8:39PM
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Jennings
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Wrote one of my essays about skiing. It was so sexy
Dec 24 2011 12:14AM
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alexat955
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Seriously though. I put skiing on my common app and it helped me get in. Wingardium leviosa
Oct 26 2013 5:46AM
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Japaneezy
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I put it in the common app as an activity and personal essay.
Oct 26 2013 5:53AM
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Mr.Mitten
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I wrote about skiing in my essay. It asked about the place I felt most peaceful at, so I wrote about my home hill. Quoted CRJ. Everyone I read it to loved it. Pretty killer
Oct 26 2013 8:53AM
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