Brag Sheet 101

A brag sheet can vary from person to person, but here are the general items you should include:

GENERAL:

• GPA (Including how the school is scaled, weighted, or unweighted)

• Rank/Percentage (If the school has one)

• Test Scores (ACT, SAT, AP Scores, etc.) INCLUDE BOTH SUBSCORE AND SUPERSCORES

• Background (Ethnicity, Demographic, FGLI, etc.)

• Awards

With awards, I recommend sorting them out by the month and year you received with your most recent awards at the top.  Put down all your awards, even the minor ones, because you don't know when you'll need them to either fill the award section space (Common App, or other application sites) or use as support for a separate extracurricular.

Additionally, I'd recommend labeling your awards as either district, regional, state, national, or international. 

• Extracurriculars

These should also be ordered by their dates. I'd also recommend putting how many hours you dedicate a week to this organization, amount of members/impact (just a few lines outlining the club's purpose), what leadership positions you've held, and/or major awards under these organizations. 

• Links

This could be your Linkedin, Art Portfolio, Content Creation accounts, Resume, etc.

TIP: Highlight you're most impressive/prominent awards. This is what you'd like to standout when applying and also when you ask for letters of recomendation. It helps who you're asking write about the qualities tied to that experience.

You want to be able to consult this sheet whenever you're applying for programs, college, jobs, etc. I personally also included the schools I was applying to on this list. There is no definite way to make this list! 

Here is an outdated example of mine:

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