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Listing Honors/Awards

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:16 pm
by Marshmallow
What exactly should be included in this part of the application? Dean's List?

I'm assuming we shouldn't list awards in high school?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Listing Honors/Awards

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 2:52 pm
by notalobbyist
Latin honors, honors societies, ____ of the year, Nobel prizes, etc.

If you won something baller in high school sure, but unless it was a national award I don't think it belongs.

Re: Listing Honors/Awards

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 2:57 pm
by Marshmallow
notalobbyist wrote:Latin honors, honors societies, ____ of the year, Nobel prizes, etc.

If you won something baller in high school sure, but unless it was a national award I don't think it belongs.
hah! nice to know I can include my Nobel Prize ;) no but seriously, thanks!

Re: Listing Honors/Awards

Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:17 pm
by notalobbyist
No worries. On the specific question of Dean's list, I guess the question is do you have anything that supersedes it? If you graduated cum laude or whatever, its kind of redundant to list it IMHO, but if you didn't then you should probably include it in a way that isn't clunky.

Re: Listing Honors/Awards

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 9:49 pm
by Iroh
Marshmallow wrote:What exactly should be included in this part of the application? Dean's List?

I'm assuming we shouldn't list awards in high school?

Thanks in advance.
FWIW, I included my state's high school honors society in all of the apps that asked me to list my high school. I left it off for the apps that only asked about undergrad.

Re: Listing Honors/Awards

Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 3:12 pm
by bp shinners
Iroh wrote:
Marshmallow wrote:What exactly should be included in this part of the application? Dean's List?

I'm assuming we shouldn't list awards in high school?

Thanks in advance.
FWIW, I included my state's high school honors society in all of the apps that asked me to list my high school. I left it off for the apps that only asked about undergrad.
I would recommend leaving that off, even when the app asks you to list your high school. It won't really do any damage, but it's not helping at all.

Re: Listing Honors/Awards

Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 3:28 pm
by Marshmallow
notalobbyist wrote:No worries. On the specific question of Dean's list, I guess the question is do you have anything that supersedes it? If you graduated cum laude or whatever, its kind of redundant to list it IMHO, but if you didn't then you should probably include it in a way that isn't clunky.

very good point...