isaiah4110 Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 How much detail are people putting into answers? It seems that 1200 characters for three activities is A LOT - you could write paragraphs for each. I'm a bit confused about why some people were talking about how there's not enough space to include the position of verifiers.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 Hmmmm I wouldn't call it a lot, I recall only being able to put in like 3 short sentences for each activity, where one was the title and the verifier's info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skp1187 Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 How much detail are people putting into answers? It seems that 1200 characters for three activities is A LOT - you could write paragraphs for each. I'm a bit confused about why some people were talking about how there's not enough space to include the position of verifiers.... You probably already know this but 1200 characters is NOT the same as 1200 words. So actually you don't have the option of writing very detailed descriptions of what you did. Trust me it's not a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeeha Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 also, the character limit counts spaces as characters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isaiah4110 Posted October 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Ah, now that I am actually doing it, I see what you mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamer Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 I thought Ualberta required English as a pre-requisite... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
future_doc Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 If you don't leave spaces between words, you can get in more words (although it will look like one long word) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skp1187 Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 If you don't leave spaces between words, you can get in more words (although it will look like one long word) ...and probably give the admission markers headaches!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 I thought Ualberta required English as a pre-requesite... You misspelled "pre-requisite.";) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMD Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 not sure if anyone asked about this before, would it be okay to put 2 activities in instead of 3, provinding that you give it a little more details and what you have learnt from the activities? or is it preferred to list 3 activities with shorter descriptions of each. Can those in the school shed some lights in this dilemma? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamer Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 You misspelled "pre-requisite.";) No I didn't Crazy, crazy cat lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 not sure if anyone asked about this before, would it be okay to put 2 activities in instead of 3, provinding that you give it a little more details and what you have learnt from the activities? or is it preferred to list 3 activities with shorter descriptions of each. Can those in the school shed some lights in this dilemma? I would list 3, but that's my personal choice. People can BS a lot about what they've done in a particular activity, so while specific details that will show the extent of your involvement are important (e.g. don't just say you raised funds for a volunteer mission, say you did it single-handedly and raised $5000, or something like that), I wouldn't waste space on writing something that likely won't be taken very seriously. Treat this as a resume, not a scholarship essay. That's my opinion, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sv3 Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 I would list 3, but that's my personal choice. People can BS a lot about what they've done in a particular activity, so while specific details that will show the extent of your involvement are important (e.g. don't just say you raised funds for a volunteer mission, say you did it single-handedly and raised $5000, or something like that), I wouldn't waste space on writing something that likely won't be taken very seriously. Treat this as a resume, not a scholarship essay. That's my opinion, anyway. Interesting - so focus on cold hard facts (acheivements) as opposed to motives and learnings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Interesting - so focus on cold hard facts (acheivements) as opposed to motives and learnings? That was my approach. Considering the limited amount of space available, I didn't want to bother writing various BS along the lines of "My experience volunteering at the hospital allowed me to really feel the extent of human suffering as I fetched water to the demented geriatrics in LTC...." I decided that "Hospital volunteer - received award for outstanding service" was a much more succint and informative approach. But like I said, that's just the approach I adopted and it worked well for me since I had a pretty high PAS despite what I thought were fairly average ECs. Maybe someone else had a high PAS with a different approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sv3 Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 That was my approach. Considering the limited amount of space available, I didn't want to bother writing various BS along the lines of "My experience volunteering at the hospital allowed me to really feel the extent of human suffering as I fetched water to the demented geriatrics in LTC...." I decided that "Hospital volunteer - received award for outstanding service" was a much more succint and informative approach. But like I said, that's just the approach I adopted and it worked well for me since I had a pretty high PAS despite what I thought were fairly average ECs. Maybe someone else had a high PAS with a different approach. no you are right i think. thats a good point about BS taking up much more space. thanks for the tip. actually, a couple of my employment exps come up in other sections, where i'll likely apply the BS component, having already described it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostLamb Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 did anyone else LOL when they went over the character limit and the program says in the box "Character limit: NO MORE!!!!" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatonekid Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 did anyone else LOL when they went over the character limit and the program says in the box "Character limit: NO MORE!!!!" ? lol. 10char Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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