So I have a couple state/national level academic honors that mostly fill up the 5 allowed on the Commonapp. I’m deciding between listing super honor roll from my school and the three honor societies I’m in (NHS, Spanish, Music). Which of these two would be better to list under the Academic Honor section?
If you’re an active member or officer of the honor societies, you can list them as an activity instead.
I’m a member of these honor societies, but I don’t think I can write 150 characters of things for them. My activity in these honor societies is mostly volunteer work but usually these are sponsored by other clubs/organizations that I’m more passionate about, so I was going to touch on that there. However, I think it would still be beneficial to mention the honor societies somewhere on my application.
So basically I need help to choose 5 out of 7 for the Academic Honor. Will be major in Finance/Applied Math if this helps. Any thoughts/ suggestions from your experience? Thank you in advance!
- National Merit Scholarship
- Regional XXX Young Achiever Award (SouthEast)
- National Honor Society(NHS, Spanish, Music).
- College Board AP Scholar
- High School Super Honor Roll (3 years)
- National NSE Gold Award, Third Place
- National AATSP Spanish Composition Contest Notable
Don’t put the High School Honor Roll
Thanks PartyNextDoor for your input!
For the “Young Achiever Award”, since there’s not a lot of space on the application to fully describe what it’s for (awardees are selected based on a holistic review process with emphasis on science and technology), is it worth it to put that on my application?
bump
If that is a prestigious award and complements the rest of your STEM-based ECs, then definitely include it.
Thanks!
I would remove the AP scholar.
The schools will see your AP courses on your transcript, and you will self-report your scores.
The CB ‘certificate’ acknowledges that you took at least x# of AP exams and scored high on them - it’s redundant.