A few questions about the application and its process

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Hey guys, I had a few questions.

  1. What qualifies as "scholastic" and "non-scholastic"? I've listed some math tournament awards and national merit semi-finalist as scholastic, and some school awards (harvard prize book) /club awards as non-scholastic.
  2. I've e-mailed my EC twice and called once (he didn't have a voicemail). Deadline is tomorrow. Suggestions?
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The people who work in admissions may reply with definitive advice, but I would say that if you received the Harvard book prize based on academics, it is clearly scholastic. Club awards would generally be scholastic if the club is related to a subject, and I’d call them non-scholastic if the club did volunteer work in a hospital, worked for Habitat for Humanity, worked on a Congressional campaign, held bake sales . . .

My idea of a non-scholastic award is All-State First Team in soccer, or an award for horsemanship, or something that is not connected with school, except that the school may sponsor the team.

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So Academic Games (which aren’t really school subjects despite the name) and chess awards are good for non-scholastic?
Do you think I should replace Harvard Award with my 4th place overall in the official state pre-calc test?