The Common Application asks for a short paragraph in which the applicant explains an extracurricular involvement or recent work experience. The question used to ask for comment on an extracurricular of special importance to you. (No idea why they stripped out the reason for selection.) Here’s the prompt:
Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences in the space below or on an attached sheet (150 words or fewer).
As you are gearing up to work on the essays, we recommend you start here and decide what you want to share in this question. If you decide that the best window into you and your personality is your tenacious commitment to the soccer team, and write your core essay on that topic, you won’t want to use soccer for the short paragraph. Or if your essay is about folding shirts at the Gap and what you’ve learned about “sizing up customers,” you won’t want to give these 150 words to your mall job.
Remember that the essays, short and long, are meant to convey information and insight NOT found elsewhere in the application. So sort out this little answer topic, write it up, and make it vivid, specific, and fast-paced; then turn to the core essay with another “lens” in mind
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