UC课外活动：10个课外活动填写Tips

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为什么UC课外活动填写很重要？

尽管你的文书会展示一些你的个性，但你的课外活动展示了你所做的具体事情。

UC课外活动关键词：

  • ✔️Leadership
  • ✔️Responsibility
  • ✔️Impact

虽然大部分的内容会与Common App课外活动相同，但UC的课外活动更加全面。

UC课外活动提供20个空格用于填写你的活动/奖项（每个活动有350字符的描述空间），而Common App仅提供10个活动（150字符描述空间）和5个荣誉/奖项的空间。

UC针对课外活动的六个分类：

  1. 奖项或荣誉 Award or honors
  2. 教育准备项目 Educational preparation programs
  3. 课外活动 Extracurricular activities
  4. 其他课程 Other coursework
  5. 志愿服务/社区服务 Volunteering / Community service
  6. 工作经验 Work experience

你可以在这六类中列出最多20项活动。

10个课外活动填写Tips

1. 在第一个填写框中填写组织名称和职位 (<60字符)，不浪费下方350字符框中的字符。

– Instead of … School newspaper
– Consider: I am the editor for the school newspaper

2. 果断精简。由于字符限制，词语的选择极其重要。你还在用完整的句子吗？如果是，停止使用。填写UC课外活动的时候不必要使用完整的句子。

– Instead of … I participated in a fund-raising activity at my high school where we organized various events to raise money for community projects.
– Consider: Led successful school fund-raiser; raised $5,000 for community projects.

3. 力求多样，确保动词不冗余。

– Instead of … Organized, managed, and ran the school fundraiser.
– Consider: Coordinated logistics, motivated team, and executed event, raising $5,000 for community projects.

4. 注意时态。仍在做的事情，请使用现在时。不再做的事情，请使用过去时。

5. 强调具体的、可衡量的影响。

– Instead of … I lead the debate team.
– Consider: Led debate team to regional championships, winning 3 out of 5 rounds, and increased club membership by 30%.

6. 如果你的角色只是Member或Participant，只列出活动即可。例如，与其写Member of XXX Club，你可以只写XXX Club。

7. 包括任何能展示领导能力的职责。

– Instead of … I swim on the swim team.
– Consider: Responsible for leading swim practices, planning fundraising events, assisting in recruiting process.

8. 如果没什么可写的，或者只是一个一次性的活动怎么办？尝试提供具体内容或细节。

– Tutored students. → Assisted fourth graders with fractions and long division.

– Organized a charity bake sale. → Raised $500 for ASPCA through a one-time charity bake sale event.

– Volunteered at a beach cleanup. → Collected over 50 pounds of trash at Santa Monica Beach.

9. 描述选拔细节。读者并不了解你的活动所代表的成就，这一点非常关键。

– Instead of … I was elected as a student leader.
– Consider: 1 of 2 student leaders elected by my peers to represent our class of 450.

– Instead of … Received 1st place.
– Consider: Received 1st place out of 300 competing teams.

10. 避免使用夸张语言，并专注于实际、可衡量的目标。

– to end poverty in the world → to fight against poverty
– to save endangered species → to protect endangered species
– to make the city safe → to enhance safety in urban areas
– to solve the global hunger crisis → to address food insecurity issues
– to stop climate change → to mitigate the effects of climate change

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