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[doctor-strange]

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"What activities you held that demonstrated effective, significant face-to-face communication? Please describe."

This is the 3rd question on the Penn secondary app. Any thoughts on how I should approach this question? There's a 1000 word limit, so do you think I should approach it using a format similar to personal statements, like a story type of concept? Or something more straightforward?

Also what kind of fact-to-fact communication do you think this question is suggesting? If I write 3 different activities I've done, should they demonstrate different types of face-to-face communication, or very similar? For example, one about tutoring, one about volunteering at a soup-kitchen type setting, one about networking with others? Or just all activites about some sort of mentoring...

I'm just throwing random ideas out there... Sorry if this is super jumbled I just not sure about how to approach this topic.

 

[BluntForceTrauma]

"What activities you held that demonstrated effective, significant face-to-face communication? Please describe."

This is the 3rd question on the Penn secondary app. Any thoughts on how I should approach this question? There's a 1000 word limit, so do you think I should approach it using a format similar to personal statements, like a story type of concept? Or something more straightforward?

Also what kind of fact-to-fact communication do you think this question is suggesting? If I write 3 different activities I've done, should they demonstrate different types of face-to-face communication, or very similar? For example, one about tutoring, one about volunteering at a soup-kitchen type setting, one about networking with others? Or just all activites about some sort of mentoring...

I'm just throwing random ideas out there... Sorry if this is super jumbled I just not sure about how to approach this topic.

You're over thinking by a mile. Just answer the question, and talk about what you learned/gained/how you changed as a result of the interaction and activities.

 

[babytomato]

They don't have to be different experiences, just whichever ones you think are best in demonstrating face to face communication. Mine are pretty straightforward, just talking about what I did and making sure it explains how face to face communication is involved.

 

[JLT223]

Pretty self-explanatory.

 

[TheDentalSchoolCoach]

Treat it like a behavioral interview question. Just pick one of your example and develop it using the STAR technique. STAR stands for

Situation - what was the context
Task - what was your role? What task were you doing ?
Action - what action did you take in that context to demonstrate effective face to face communication
Result- what happened at the end?

This should help you out.