<p>Is it too many to have 25 lines of awards in the awards section of the commonapp?</p>
<p>Edit: I put all the best awards at the top, so hopefully their eyes just don't glaze over and the adcom doesn't miss everything important.</p>
<p>lol, if you have 25 lines, props to you buddy.</p>
<p>Depends on what they are, I suppose. If they are good enough that having a lot of them shows excellence and not merely participation, it might work; but past book awards, AP + NM stuff, and other national awards, it may not mean much to the college.</p>
<p>I put them in paragraph form since it said not to list... but it looked really dense to me... is that okay?</p>
<p>sometimes we worry too much about how our applications "look"... cuz lol the ad-com really doesn't care how your application "looks" as long as you get ur message across. It's important to present good qualities, fine. However, the quality of what you say far outweighs how your apps look.</p>
<p>I had one. Hahaha. Credit to you for having 25... amazing.</p>
<p>Haha, true. I was also wondering... if I'm getting some things published (but its in the process of being published now, so I can't actually send a copy to the schools) would that go under awards and scholastic distinctions or additional information?</p>
<p>additional if it's important enuf,
xtra curricular if it's only so-so
awards if you're getting something for it.</p>
<p>If research, probably academic; anything else is probably additional info.</p>
<p>becchalk, are you zogoto?</p>
<p>No, but I figured the questions related.</p>
<p>LOL no becchalk is not me. I actually didn't know that if something is in the process of publication, you can't send it to colleges. Oopsie, haha, I did that with my EA school.</p>
<p>My awards are all national or state level, with the exception of:
-national merit semifinalist (this is kind of a dumb award in my opinion, since all you do is take a test for it, and the test is basically the SAT, which is already on the application)
-Top 10 presentations at a summer program I went to (it draws from an international applicant pool, but it's not really international distinction right?)
-being accepted to a conference (should this even be here, and not add. info.?)
-Submitted to publication (should I even include this too?)
-And three or four school/regional competition awards</p>
<p>Sorry, I brought up some more questions in this post. Can anyone answer? :P</p>
<p>Oh, I don't mean you can't send what you wrote/researched/whatever to the thing. It's just that I'm getting a book published, and I can't give them an actual physical book because it's not due to come out til the end of 2006, or possibly 2007. So I just put in that I'm in the process of doing it...</p>
<p>And congrats on so many awards! Wow, I feel inadequate. I was wondering about that "getting accepted to a conference" thing too.</p>
<p>You're publishing a book???? And YOU feel inadequate?</p>
<p>And my awards aren't really that great. I couldn't get in to my EA school.</p>
<p>Haha, it's not that big of an accomplishment, it only happened because of one of those right place right time sort of things. Besides, I don't have that many awards, and most of them are pretty inconsequential like "spirit awards". I'd kill to have a bunch of state/national ones. What was your EA school?</p>
<p>Harvard</p>
<p>I'm a really lopsided applicant though. All my awards are math/science.</p>
<p>That's okay, like, everything I do is English/History. And work. I'm sure you'll get in somewhere really good - Harvard isn't everything.</p>
<p>Yeah but MIT is way too hard for me. I don't even know if I'm smart enough to survive. Stanford is the next best bet but it's so hard to get into too :(</p>
<p>jugartenis, why do you say that book awards, ap, and NM are not important things for a college to know about? i think those are pretty important awards if you ask me. in paricular, the book award thing</p>
<p>I think in my Princeton Review best colleges book there was some quote about MIT and it was like "If you think you're too stupid to go here, apply anyway. You'd be amazed at how many stupid people go here."</p>
<p>My high school's across the street from Stanford. It's absolutely gorgeous, if I didn't want to get far far away from home, I'd apply. The admit rate from my school is something ridiculously high like 31%.</p>