The College Magazine Summer 2021
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Live Worldwise<br />
A strategic choice of ECAs<br />
Andrew H<br />
“It’s best to have ECAs<br />
that are tailored to your<br />
specific, unique interest. I<br />
personally didn’t have a wide<br />
range of activities, but I did have many<br />
that supported the narrative I was trying to<br />
tell throughout my application. I had a lot<br />
of activities related to music and English,<br />
even my service projects were tied to music<br />
and English. So finding an angle and linking<br />
the activities to that angle really helped.”<br />
Erik C<br />
“I got an internship<br />
at the Chinese National<br />
Institute for Qing Research<br />
and ended up writing a<br />
6000-word essay about the<br />
Qing economy that was then<br />
published in <strong>The</strong> Concord Review. It was a<br />
great experience as I learnt how to write<br />
things properly and conduct research.”<br />
Kevin M<br />
“I have a good mix of<br />
activities, but the difference<br />
is how I’m able to use those<br />
activities to complement my<br />
application, to demonstrate growth,<br />
learning, intellectual engagement and<br />
curiosity for new knowledge. For<br />
example, I wrote about a service trip when<br />
I went to rural China to teach rural kids<br />
English. I talked about my engagement for<br />
new perspectives and being able to realise<br />
my privilege, linking that to my studies in<br />
economics—the very complicated efforts<br />
of development, the different perspectives<br />
that play into the development. Those<br />
aspects demonstrate intellectual<br />
engagement with what you do and what<br />
you study, and colleges really like that.”<br />
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