What\u2019s true is that the Admission team will be \u201cvery understanding what our prospective students have endured because everyone, including the people reviewing your activities section and our families, have had their lives impacted. We know that it’s going to be different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether it\u2019s a senior in high school applying to college, or a Bates student working with the Center for Purposeful Work to identify meaningful work interests, it\u2019s important to communicate how one has navigated the pandemic. Actions and activities that show thoughtfulness, as opposed to quantity, will make a strong impression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In one\u2019s application to college, Burns \u201cabsolutely recommends\u201d including context about one\u2019s activities \u2014 \u201chow it has impacted, whether it simply did not exist this year, whether it’s changed platforms, what it looks like and how the pandemic has impacted you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe activities page is not a survey. It\u2019s where you can show your reflection and you can show your character.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Burns\u2019 own application to Bates included evidence of a growing interest in singing and theater \u2014 which she parlayed into four years with the a capella<\/em> group The Merimanders and a double major in theater and rhetoric, including a senior thesis performance as Helena in Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe activities page is not a survey. It\u2019s where you can show your reflection and you can show your character. This is another place that you can really be an agent in your application.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Burns and the Bates Admission team offer this takeaway:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEverything<\/em> that you’re doing, whether it’s an organized club or helping out at home with your family with additional responsibilities, is important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re looking to see someone who has reflected<\/em> on their experiences. What have you gleaned from your activities that is important to you? Why does it feel impactful? And is it something that you’re going to want to continue when you’re in college?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bates experts give advice to high schoolers worried that the activity section of their college application has taken a hit during the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":138664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11009],"tags":[10043,12238,11121],"class_list":["post-138655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-the-college","tag-admission","tag-ask-the-college-experts","tag-audrey-burns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138655"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138715,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138655\/revisions\/138715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}