JakeFromWisco
5-Year Member
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- Jul 29, 2014
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Hello Service Academy Forums,
As many of you know, the CAR consists of a multitude of small check-able boxes that correlate to various extra curricular activities (ie, NHS, Band, Club VP, etc). As a homeschooled applicant however, very, very few of my extra curricular activities match to the activities described in the CAR. This leaves me only 250 characters in the 'remarks' section to type out almost all of my extra curricular activities.
For example, I am an assistant Tae Kwon Do instructor. There is no box for that in the CAR. I volunteered for a political campaign this past summer. There is no box for that. I started and run my own lawn care business. There is no box for that. I SCUBA dive. No box. Wrote two articles that were published in separate magazines. No box. 400+ community service hours. No box.
So my question is this: Is there anyway I can make the admissions board aware of my unlisted extra curriculars? Is there anything I can do to make my CAR more accurately reflect what I've done/do? I've stuffed the remarks section with as many of my ECs as possible, but it doesn't do them justice and it's so small that not all of them fit.
Ultimately, there may not be anything I can do. But if there is, I'd like to do it!
Thank you for your time,
Jake
As many of you know, the CAR consists of a multitude of small check-able boxes that correlate to various extra curricular activities (ie, NHS, Band, Club VP, etc). As a homeschooled applicant however, very, very few of my extra curricular activities match to the activities described in the CAR. This leaves me only 250 characters in the 'remarks' section to type out almost all of my extra curricular activities.
For example, I am an assistant Tae Kwon Do instructor. There is no box for that in the CAR. I volunteered for a political campaign this past summer. There is no box for that. I started and run my own lawn care business. There is no box for that. I SCUBA dive. No box. Wrote two articles that were published in separate magazines. No box. 400+ community service hours. No box.
So my question is this: Is there anyway I can make the admissions board aware of my unlisted extra curriculars? Is there anything I can do to make my CAR more accurately reflect what I've done/do? I've stuffed the remarks section with as many of my ECs as possible, but it doesn't do them justice and it's so small that not all of them fit.
Ultimately, there may not be anything I can do. But if there is, I'd like to do it!
Thank you for your time,
Jake