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@thiago
0 answers, 3 votes
 • 2 years ago •
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How to format my extracurricular activity?

Hi,

Can someone please help me format my extracurricular activity?

I was a legal assistant for this law firm with multiple offices in my country, and I

- took notes on meetings (office & hearings)

- researched law (by how it can be applied to some cases)

- helped draft papers (partially)

- filling (digitalizing physical papers and organizing them into folders in their cloud system)

activities
activity
commonapp
extracurricular
ExtracurricularActivities
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@marlena
1 answer, 2 votes
 • 2 years ago

I've been working with a college counselor and she told me to follow this model (for common app but I assume it works for other applications too):

FORMAT:

Position: [up to 50 characters, including spaces]

Organization Name [up to 100 characters, including spaces]

Grades:

Time: weeks / year; hours / week

Description: [up to 150 characters, including spaces - use strong action verbs!]

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