Courtesy of The Herald News (New Jersey):
Adam Sapp, assistant dean of admissions at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif., said students should not be thinking about how good an activity will look on a resume.
Rather, they should ask themselves, "'Do I have the time to leave this organization better than when I started?' ... It's OK for a student to be involved in fewer things if they have that depth and focus," he said.
I've been getting a lot of email from parents and prospective Claremont McKenna students asking me what they "need" to do to get into Claremont McKenna, as if I somehow knew anything about the whims or likes of admissions officers I never met! In fact, I hadn't ever been to L.A. County before I came for school in September!
Oh, and prospective students, enjoy high school. I know most of you won't listen to me on that one, but do enjoy it. You never know how great it was until it's a year or so behind you.
1 comment:
I really loved my time working in CMC admissions and Adam Sapp was a great mentor to me. He really enjoys his job and I think is a great spokesman for CMC. He's dead-on for extracurriculars too, for high school students far too many join a million clubs senior year for college apps, instead of working on a few projects or community service ideas, or sports, or whatever, throughout their college careers.
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