Here are some tips from Adam Sapp, Director of Admissions at Pomona College.
Keep a short accounting of how you are spending your time. This is a moment where everything counts. Keep a reading list of the books you read for fun. List extra time spent babysitting siblings unexpectedly. Did you work hard to call grandma a bit more? Jot that down. Make a resume of summer programs admitted to or summer events you planned to attend that were cancelled due to Covid. Draft some reflections on how you developed ways to cope and manage during this difficult time. I don’t know if you’ll use ALL of this; I can’t promise that, but I do think this fall that colleges may find creative ways to ask students about this stay-at-home time on the application. If and when they do, your students will be glad they have some previously created documents to refer to for accuracy and to help them reflect.
Keep a short accounting of how you are spending your time. This is a moment where everything counts. Keep a reading list of the books you read for fun. List extra time spent babysitting siblings unexpectedly. Did you work hard to call grandma a bit more? Jot that down. Make a resume of summer programs admitted to or summer events you planned to attend that were cancelled due to Covid. Draft some reflections on how you developed ways to cope and manage during this difficult time. I don’t know if you’ll use ALL of this; I can’t promise that, but I do think this fall that colleges may find creative ways to ask students about this stay-at-home time on the application. If and when they do, your students will be glad they have some previously created documents to refer to for accuracy and to help them reflect.
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