petersmith Posted July 13, 2011 Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 Alberta requires that you divide your activities into 5 categories: employment record, awards, leadership roles, volunteer work, and diversity of experience. What do we do for activities that could easily fall into more than one category? For example, volunteer work where you had a leadership role? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConcernedP Posted July 13, 2011 Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 Alberta requires that you divide your activities into 5 categories: employment record, awards, leadership roles, volunteer work, and diversity of experience. What do we do for activities that could easily fall into more than one category? For example, volunteer work where you had a leadership role? Thanks! Activity with multiple roles can be divided into multiple categories especially when you spend long time like multiple years in multiple roles. Just determine the portion of hours that were volunteer activity excluding leadership roles and report it in volunteer. In the leadership section, title the activity highlighting the role, e.g. volunteer trainer, and describe. Remember the roles have to be distinct in terms of service to others and providing leadership. There is an additional comment section somewhere in the application where you can put one sentence to explain why the activity happening at the same organization is divided into more than one category providing the reason that you had multiple, distinctly different roles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxcv Posted July 13, 2011 Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 Alberta requires that you divide your activities into 5 categories: employment record, awards, leadership roles, volunteer work, and diversity of experience. What do we do for activities that could easily fall into more than one category? For example, volunteer work where you had a leadership role? Thanks! You could add each activitiy, as many times as you like, to the respective categories that it belongs to. However, I do not recommend repeating the activities (some people would disagree with this), unless if the activity is really amazing and can truly be milked for another section, and even in this case you should not repeat the activity more than once. However, if you are running out of activities, then this is fine, since the applications are graded primarily on the descriptions (no doubt, inherent bias regarding the activity exists on part of the evaluator; teaching karate looks really awesom compared to tutoring biology, given that the description are similar). If you do repeat activities, then make sure the title varies and the description are vary different from the previous. The highest score last year on the app was aroudn 15 and the year before that was 17. If you have two people, with excellent applications, but one has activities which are reptitive while the other doesn't, who will score higher? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC5 Posted July 13, 2011 Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 Alberta requires that you divide your activities into 5 categories: employment record, awards, leadership roles, volunteer work, and diversity of experience. What do we do for activities that could easily fall into more than one category? For example, volunteer work where you had a leadership role? Thanks! Put it wherever you're lacking. If you don't have much leadership bam there you go. If your volunteer work is skimpy then insert description there. Want to be well-rounded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petersmith Posted July 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 Perfect, thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziprasidone Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 I emailed ADCOM last year and they said that one should refrain from repeating activities. I proceeded to repeat them, but insert a different description because I felt that many of my significant and long-term activities belonged to multiple sections. Not sure if this is true- but I also heard each section is scored independently (a score out of 5 for each). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwh333 Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 Hi guys, Not too familiar with the Alberta system but wondering if you guys can shed some light on how many characters are allowed for each description? I'm almost done my UBC app and we get 250 characters Also how many spots for each of the 5 category?? Thanks all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxcv Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 350 Charc. 5 categories: Employment, Awards/Achievements, Leadership, Volunteer, and diversity. In each category, 5 spaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connorb268 Posted August 7, 2011 Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 i am also about to complete an application, and was just wondering if it is necessary to fill each of the 5 categories with more than one activity/role. as a full-time student i dont feel that after three years i'd be able to fill each category with more than one or two examples/descriptions, is that ok? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwh333 Posted August 7, 2011 Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 well it is what it is isn't it? you can't really do much at this point unless you make up something fake and put it in right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connorb268 Posted August 7, 2011 Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 yeah your right, i guess if i dont have enough i'll just overlap one activity into other categories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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